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Spamvilla Recaptcha OCR is down, and no reply from Kelvin

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  • FREE time to compensate for the many downtimes is what Kelvin promised long time ago somewhere HERE in the forum
    that is what I expect else I would have filed a PP dispute long time ago.
    if his promise broken, then time for a payal dispute
  • You think he's going to just eat the cost for free spamvilla time for all of its members? Doubtful. That's out of pocket expenses for him. I don't think we will be hearing from him ever again.
  • long before the many recent downtimes,
    here below a few promises from Kelvin to compensate for downtimes,
    so far never received any of the free days or coupon

    https://forum.gsa-online.de/discussion/5094/spamvilla-recaptcha-ocr-official-thread-help-and-updates/p21
    October 16
    " ... more over i sent every client 25% coupon off as well on next invoice or order it can be redeemed ... "

    https://forum.gsa-online.de/discussion/5094/spamvilla-recaptcha-ocr-official-thread-help-and-updates/p19
    October 12
    "Hey guys want to update all of you both servers are up online , http api implementation is also done we are heavily stress testing final element which is load balancer and by tomorrow night it will be done and i hope it will get implement in GSA and other software's fast as well schedule emails will be send regarding new api to all client along with there coupon codes or process to get a free week credit to there accounts"
  • Well SpamVilla is DOWN again.

    I took Spamvilla out of my CB settings becuase it was just slowing shit down going through retires and waiting on Spamvilla just to not get answered.

    Once I did this, I realized CB does a great job hitting Recaptcha as well on a first pass all by itself and the ones it can not answer it sends to MegaOCR.

    There is no reason to even have worthless Spamvilla now really.
  • I just ordered this 2 days ago, I haven't read the forums here in about a week, wish I would of seen this first, that was my capatcha budget for the month m so pissed!!!

  • @eliquid

    thanks to your post about CB solving recaptcha, I just updated my CB and removed spamvilla to test CB results. before I was (may be like others) so fixed on spamvilla having to solve that I forgot to test built-in CB solutions.

    may be most people here have never tried CB-recaptcha because of the settings sending all to SV

    how approximately is your % of CB solving recaptcha ???
  • open dispute now
  • now more than 54 hrs down and NO reply from Kelvin
  • dispute opened as well
  • its still down for me :(
  • googlealchemistgooglealchemist Anywhere I want
    filescape you are either a schill or an idiot either way thats your problem

    if there is a genuine family loss thats awful, but with the track record its hard to believe anything. regardless business is businss

    i just fired up megaocr and will see how it goes overnight

    still keeping the spamv acct active to see how it goes if/when he gets things sorted
  • "filescape you are either a schill or an idiot either way thats your problem" 

    Thanks...and a Merry Christmas to you too
  • Oh was up, now down
  • yea was up.. and running gr8.. But now its down again...
  • @filescape

    You're missing some important points..

    1) ALL comments are due to spamvilla's POOR user experience
    2) It was unprofessional right from the start. From up/downtime over to customer service.
    3) This is business, not personal. Open your eyes, nobody gives a dime about who died, what happened, where somebody is located. You pay, you expect a service to work. As simple as that. Situation might be tough for him, but it's absolutely nothing to do with the service running or not. If he's out of time, has to go through a difficult personal time, HIRE someone to manage your shit.

    Sad but true, nowadays absolutely nobody cares if a provider is facing personal shit. Do you really think a legit company would handle it the same way? Don't think so...
  • dispute opened and more then happy with megaocr. I've been with spamvilla since the beginning but enough is enough. Down for days, no customer support. I run my own service here and I've been down for a weekend so I know how it goes. However, I also sent out customer support emails during that 3 days of being down and bent over backwards to please everyone I could. Spamvilla has been down A LOT before his mother passed on. Enough is enough though, had he hired a support staff and gave us a least a update, versus ignoring us, I wouldn't be canceling.
  • dispute opened and but megaocr is not really better, bad support/service, only closed source software, windows only and not 100% online but better than spamvilla. :( Any alternative?
  • guys
    try the CB built in recaptcha solving
    just remember to also toggle the CB
    > other > recaptcha
    captcha type when disabling spamvilla on CB

    here running CB to solve recaptcha since about 14 hrs and it looks amazingly good in results
    considering the zero downtime of CB, the endresult in % may be comparable to SV minus the downtimes
  • Arhhh, you guys are luckier than me, I just bought Recaptcha OCR SpamVilla few days ago, and till now I didn't get ANY REPLY on the setup, I'm like donating to them, shiiittt.
  • spamvilla here still down since more than 72 hrs
    CB works just good enough for me
  • royalmiceroyalmice WEBSITE: ---> https://asiavirtualsolutions.com | SKYPE:---> asiavirtualsolutions
    My PayPal dispute was just closed and received a refund, so look like our friend is still alive.
    Dont think i will use Spamvilla again anytime soon
  • thanks. i'm going to open dispute too..
  • dispute solved = full refund for current period received

    all within 1 day
    = hence Kelvin exists
    just NOT for his paying customers

    an apprenticeship always is done at OWN expenses
    paying commercial customers NEVER should be abused for beta-testing and learning at customers expenses!

    there is ZERO excuse for one man operation
    there is zero excuse for timezone

    each one choses his own job

    a baker knows he may get burnt - so does a chef cooking for many
    a construction worker knows he may get hit by a hammer on his finger or toe or by a falling object
    a miner knows he gets all the dust and dirt in addition to being possible victim of a mine-collapse

    a web publisher offering a commercial online service to the world for MONEY KNOWS he needs to be online 24/7/365 at any cost
    having a laptop with him where ever he travels, goes or sleeps
    having mobile internet connectivity, access to alternate www such as hotel, guest-house, free wifi in restaurants in addition to own 3G or 4G mobile broadband
    where ever you travel or live or work = keep the requirements i mind to fulfill a 100% quality service
    either you are willing to serve your customers and become a valuable asset to this world and God's creation
    or
    you have NO valuable place on this planet and may consider a change of job like shoe polisher or gardener or farmer or flower seller, etc ....

    if you want to earn international money = you have to offer international quality

    spamvilla was my worst quality experience in all life while working/traveling some 40 countries during past many decades (mostly disaster or war countries or remotest provincial locations
  • I"ve deff dealt with a lot worse.   EWA for example.
  • BrandonBrandon Reputation Management Pro
    This is just too bad. His product is fantastic if he can ever get the support right.

    Kelvin - I'll buy Spamvilla if you're interested in selling.
  • edited December 2013
    Hmm Gsa CB updated for spamvilla service but its not working for 3-4 days - epic.
    It was online for only 1-2 hours, 20 hours ago and its down since then, after the GSA CB updated. (can I now think spamvilla went online for 30 minutes so @Sven can test captcha breaker to fix it and after update rolled out, spamvilla service also went out)
    2.32 - fix: problem with spamvilla-recaptcha not accepting png as filetype
  • edited December 2013
    this is what kelvin wrote yesterday in bhw.. " i am very sorry for this all bad situation but it was not intentionally after my mother expired last month right after few days i had an accident as well i just been recovered from it i am very sorry but before this i am running biz from years without any serious issues i am refunding my clients whoever didn't get the orders processed by us and asked for refunds , having some genuine problems with us tomorrow i am getting discharge from here as well so i will be able avail for support as well Regards kelvin "
  • I am cancelling my spamvilla account with some regret, it is quite powerful, but give me a break.. 50% uptime and no response to my ticket after.... 5 days now? That is just not acceptable.
  • 1) I'm not sure if my captcha breaker is reading correctly, but I seem to be getting over 50% success rate wit captcha breaker alone. That's quite a good rate. Maybe I won't need Spamvilla.

    2) Why hasn't Kelvin responded here if he's responded in BHW? If he's back, how come Spamvilla still isn't working?
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