publicopinionpanel.com - Spammers and Scammers

The average person receives a dozen spams per month from these dipwads. publicopinionpanel.com are professional scam artists. They push “Free” iPods, gift cards, and more. These free products are nothing of the sort.  You are required to register for dozens of advertising programs – and accept their thousands of spam messages – and “participate” in these numerous programs.  A total scam they are paid to promote by the programs you have to  “participate” in.  They use third party spamming servers located in the Ukraine, Russia and China.  Does that sound legitimate?

Of course the best bet is to NEVER follow spam links.  But if you even wind up on the publicopinionpanel.com website, close the browser!  Antivirus programs consider the site “unsafe” – anti Phishing software automatically blocks access to publicopinionpanel.com. By any stretch of the imagination how can anyone consider this site legitimate? IT IS NOT! Scammers, spammers and crooks. Run when you see their website.

What’s even worse – ClickBooth.com, the self-proclaimed “owners of web advertising” work with these scam artists.  What does that say about Clickbooth? Or the companies that use their services?

Beowolf. I want my $$$ back!

For the first 15 minutes I thought someone was playing a cruel joke. Perhaps the guy in the projection booth found a reel created by the Shrek 2^nd string. Seriously. Take poor quality Shrek animation, add in Clutch Cargo mouth effects, then stick in some Benny Hill “hide the naughty bits” routine and you have this pitiful waste of time.

The opening shot – I assume this woman is supposed to be attractive. Er, by what bizarre standard? I kept looking for the Adams Apple. The Physics? You know, gravity, water motion, flame movement? Perhaps if we were on the Moon. Motion capture? Oh Christ – I could go on forever. This movie just plain SUCKED ass. Nobody was able to keep their fake accents up for more than a few lines. BTW, what accent was that supposed to be anyway?

The soundtrack. Too lazy to be creative, they used portions of "Away in a Manger" - you know, that Christmas tune, and parts of Gounod's "Ave Maria" - poorly. The rest sounded like some b-grade gaming soundtrack.

Oh, and I had no idea that Beowolf had detachable limbs. Comes in handy I guess...

Save your money. Avoid this dog.

Harry Carry AT&T Commercials

You know, this guy was annoying as hell alive – when he finally croaked (and I’m not talking about his croaking voice) I was ambivalent. Some twits were heartbroken. Get a life!  I’ll never understand why anyone actually liked this annoying idiot.  So AT&T in their misguided attempt to appeal to Chicago-ites reincarnates him via a really bad impersonator. I either mute the volume or change the channel whenever his oversized-eyeglass faced, cheese grating voice pollutes my TV.  AT&T is so out of touch it’s pitiful.  Do they actually think they can convince people that a 512K (or 800K if you pay a fortune – and can get it!)  is faster than a 6 MIPS cable connection (or 10 MIPS if you want to pay for it)?!?  Cable is 100x faster than slow-poke-snail-pace DSL, and hiring some irritating hack will only convince like-minded morons.

 

eBay's Boundless Greed

eBay recently increased their final value fees and reduced their listing fees. The result is a large net increase for doing business on eBay – around 10%.  BUT eBay snuck one in on sellers – reserve fees are no longer refunded. Here’s how it’s worked for years: you sell an item and set a reserve fee. The reserve guarantees that the item won’t sell for less than the reserve price.  If the reserve was met, the fee was refunded.  Now eBay KEEPS the fee.  This little “extra” fee cost me over $250 in the past two weeks.  Talk about being screwed!  eBay hid that fee and never mentioned it ANYWHERE – except buried several pages deep in the new fee schedule.