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/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"
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!!!
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 ???
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.
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
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
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?
I saw many CB recognized recaptcha = they mostly looked a lot wrong - yet "recognized" - the very same results from spaqmvilla = lots of guesses "recognized" yet looking mostly WRONG result = HUGE amount of target URLs needed to obtain my daily verified quota
then 2 days ago, I removed CB completely and let antigate process all result is some 20-30% MORE verified submissions
hence instead of letting software GUESS, I let antigate-humans solve for the remainder of my SER project time
Hoping someone can figure out a solution. I was doing great when spamvilla was working. lately been doing good still but not even close to as to what it was before.
Dear user its Kelvin here from spamvilla First of all I
would like to apologies for support issues and downtime last month, my
mother left us and right after that I was hospitalized as well due to
nature of our ocr business it’s pretty basically one men’s show and due
to it the support and new order process was completely gone I just got
discharged and back to my home and started working, I really want to
apologies for this scenario but It was not and never intentionally done,
anyhow I want to thanks to customers base who really supported and hung
with me in this real bad timesupport and new order processed will be
taken care from tomorrow morning and I promised service will be back and
will be 1000 times better and stable as well
But why Kevin don't reply in this topic and give people some extra bonus for time, when spamvilla was down? (maybe 80% of time)?
Yeah, going to need more assurance than that and some goodwill from Spamvilla before I sign back up. It was undoubtedly a killer service and worked very well (when it was up), but I can't have my projects running with DBC as a backup to spamvilla and have it burn through my captchas when spamvilla goes down. He should really extend an offer to give the service free for at least a month.
Like some people here have mentioned. Spamvilla slowed down SER too much for me. I only realised this when i turned it off and let CB solve recaptcha and verified per day have increased by 50% or more.
Spamvilla is running again for me. Speed is good, solving rate is good and manually watching them verifies that. Until there is a better option, spamvilla is priced right and when it works it's great.
I would wait for a day or two before signing up again. Everyone it would be awesome, if you can let us know if the service is up and working without any problems, so it can help other members to decide on this service.
I got my refund which had more to do with a billing mistake on my end then anything. I would say to give the guy a few days to get his service in order and then it will be much easier to say if it is worth it or not.
It is important to make business not too personal. The service is worth it or not but it isn't worth it to get too crazy over it one way or another.
MegaOCR works quite good for me. It has the solving rate with 5-8% less than spamvilla but at least the service is online all the time and no downtimes. On spamvilla i had DAYS when the service didn't worked.
I think the test of all this is if Kelvin 1) comes here and apologize quickly and sincerely 2) compensates us for the time lost and extremely poor service. It's one thing to apologize and all, but if you refuse to compensate us for the time lost, what kind of apology is that?
The problem is that i had lost more than 2000$ because of the downtimes Spamvilla had. I personally don't need a discount of 100$ because the service was down. I had 2 x 150$ plans on Spamvilla.
At least megaocr uptime is good and i don't lose money and my bot is working 24/7.
This is the second time he beg for our apologizes guys. Hey @Spamvilla, I guess you have to temporary close your service and repair all the bad service you have and relationship here.
We know and sorry for your family problems, but let's act professional here man! Every single people here paid you and hope get the best service from you. But what've got? You're service gone really bad because of your service.
Let's be gentle here man, don't just wrote an email and aplogize there. Come here and clear these all fuckin problem with your service.
Listen bro, you just broken all trust that we got for you.
It was up and working yesterday. I let it run on all of my servers overnight. When I woke up this morning I only had about 1000 verified on each server instead of the 10,000 I expected. I checked and Spamvilla was down again...now I'm very far behind today because SV timed out all of my threads and I only built 10% of the total links I expected.
hmmm, i bougth in saturday (7.12.13) spamvilla account for 150$, now still my account are not active. this is scam? i sent 2 ticket, sent mails and still same, i think this was mistake, not good
You had a service here people really liked. I am even interested in it if you decide to handle these problems. But you have to man-up and be professional. I can't think of a person here who does not feel badly about your personal loss. However, you were provided a key to this forum to make money. The people here paid you some nice $$$ for your product, and deserve to be treated like paying customers.
If I look back at almost every situation in my life where there was an argument or bad feelings, it was because of poor communication. When people don't communicate, they lose the ability to manage the other person's expectations. That is where you are at right at this point in time. Your last post here was November 23rd.
I am throwing you a lifeline buddy. You have an opportunity to do the right thing. If you need my advice on what to do to get out of this mess, please PM me. I will help you. This is a major forum. Please don't communicate with one forum, and hope one of your buddies brings the message here. You need to bring that message here yourself. I am asking you to step up to the plate and start communicating.
Everyone has the ability to turn a bad situation into a good one. You may as well start now.
i dont read this topic before, i read other, so i dont think so that im moron. Ok, my mistake that i dont saw what is here but... my money my problem, this all, if this is scam i try get money back from paypal, if this will be impossible .... what i can say, ......life
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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
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"
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!!!
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 ???
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
Thanks...and a Merry Christmas to you too
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
CB works just good enough for me
Dont think i will use Spamvilla again anytime soon
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
Kelvin - I'll buy Spamvilla if you're interested in selling.
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
2) Why hasn't Kelvin responded here if he's responded in BHW? If he's back, how come Spamvilla still isn't working?
result = HUGE amount of target URLs needed to obtain my daily verified quota
then 2 days ago, I removed CB completely and let antigate process all
result is some 20-30% MORE verified submissions
hence
instead of letting software GUESS, I let antigate-humans solve for the remainder of my SER project time
Dear user its Kelvin here from spamvilla
First of all I would like to apologies for support issues and downtime last month, my mother left us and right after that I was hospitalized as well due to nature of our ocr business it’s pretty basically one men’s show and due to it the support and new order process was completely gone I just got discharged and back to my home and started working, I really want to apologies for this scenario but It was not and never intentionally done, anyhow I want to thanks to customers base who really supported and hung with me in this real bad time support and new order processed will be taken care from tomorrow morning and I promised service will be back and will be 1000 times better and stable as well
But why Kevin don't reply in this topic and give people some extra bonus for time, when spamvilla was down? (maybe 80% of time)?
On my end it's still not working.
We know and sorry for your family problems, but let's act professional here man! Every single people here paid you and hope get the best service from you. But what've got? You're service gone really bad because of your service.
Let's be gentle here man, don't just wrote an email and aplogize there. Come here and clear these all fuckin problem with your service.
Listen bro, you just broken all trust that we got for you.