It's definitely not a scam, the product works and works better than anything else in the world. The problem is Kelvin (@Spamvilla) can't keep it running. I would imagine his servers are getting overwhelmed and he is in over his head with load balancing. His mother died which compounded the problem.
I think this is true because he sent out the email and it worked perfectly for a couple of hours before crashing again. That makes me believe that he restarted the server, everyone started hitting it and it crashed.
TOPtActics
My IP's are working...
KayKay
edited December 2013
mine still not working ... and my subscribtion is running out today .. doh
as brandon says .. i am very pleased with the product too but something fishy is going on there .. ,(
@macintoshies You can just issue a dispute to PayPal for refund. Although it takes 2-3weeks for PayPal to refund you, however it's a 100% refund.
I'm also tired of waiting SpamVilla to get things right. I'm issuing a dispute now. For these 2 months, I will head over to MegaOCR. And yes, MegaOCR should thank Spamvilla for that mess
macintoshies
reeve95545 for mega ocr how many project and how speed is possible for one instances gsa? i have about 30 project per one gsa with 300 threads speed, this will be work?
mmtj
We think that a month of free use is the least he could (and should) do - our account has been unusable for roughly 12 days now, resulting in a few thousand dollars usage on DBC.
eLeSlash
edited December 2013
@Brandon Spamvilla servers should not get down only if customers use them, i mean thats all this service is about, you send requests to his server to get a captcha solved, it should not get down for that. If i were to predict i would say spamvilla lacks the security needed to run a service like this. If people can get this servers down with ddos attacks and the service will be down for weeks this easily, how about you take 5% of the income you made from the clients and invest into improving the security, maybe hire one man for support and this service will kick ass. I still trust Kelvin will turn this around, thats why i stick with him till now and didnt bitch about it at all, but its hard not to feel bad when you know you lost x,xxx$ due to downtime.(imagine all of us)
@mmtj from what i understood from bhw, he will only refund us the days it was down, so around 2 weeks only
Ovidius
it works now
mmtj
Working here too. Let's see if he can keep it stable.
KayKay
yip finally up again and working great as ever .. i just hope kelvin now has time to handle all subscribtions again ..and hopeful something like that won't happen again
JamPackedSpam
I just signed up again, lets see how long it takes to receive my information.
Brandon Reputation Management Pro
Mine is working as well.
@eLeSlash I was more referring to the server crashing due to too many incoming connections hitting at the same time. That can definitely crash a server. I'm not defending him, he's making plenty of money to upgrade and hire someone to develop a fail safe as well as customer support.
googlealchemist Anywhere I want
mine got activated today, but what am i supposed to put in the gsa captcha settings when it asks for ip:port?
macintoshies
edited December 2013
mine still not activate , 6 days after payments, its funny
eLeSlash
You gotta love 93% solve rate - 14 hours uptime, wow i missed this service Welcome back Kelvin.
newbieseo
A question for those of you that signed up with Mega OCR when Spamvilla was down - are you moving back to Spamvilla? Is Spamvilla still better than Mega OCR?
indylinks
newbieseo I may try it again, but not for a while. I liked the service when it worked, but I have no time or patience for all the down time and lack of support. I don't want to have to always check if the service is on or not multiple times a day. If I pay for a service, I expect to get the service as promised.
This whole thing reminded me of years ago trying to find reliable proxy providers. I used to have to use 2 or 3 different providers at a time just to keep from having long periods of down time.
stallion316
edited December 2013
it worked for a day for me..Now it has again stopped working...
gooner SERLists.com
The service stops working constantly, but the invoices are always sent on time lol
baba
m***er f***er again down. he need money 10 days before end of the month. what a service. keep going kelvin...
and u know guys he gave me 10 days free of down time. LOL service is down whole month from me and i got 10 days. wow..
still no reply of tickets.
eLeSlash
How why did you get 10 days free? I didnt got none.. and why only 10 if the service was down for ~20 days ?
jonathanjon
It's stopped again...goodness! How much more can people take and he's still not shown his face here.
Brandon Reputation Management Pro
Still working for me....
2Take2 UK
I don't even use this service, yet I always seem to click on this thread out of curiosity )
Crownvic
Working fine for me :-)
Alden
Spamvilla is running great recently. Thumbs up for Kelvin's comeback. The worst month is over.
eLeSlash
What can we do to get refunded the days it was off? i cannot get in touch with kelvin, neither email, skype, pm's, or tickets?
I opened a PayPal dispute and received a full refund within 2 days. So if you want a refund just opened a paypal dispute
johnmiller
It's disturbing that he doesn't reply to any support requests and doesn't show up here. What is up with this guy? I just hope that some day someone with the budget like @crownvic comes over and buys out spamvilla, lol.
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I think this is true because he sent out the email and it worked perfectly for a couple of hours before crashing again. That makes me believe that he restarted the server, everyone started hitting it and it crashed.
as brandon says .. i am very pleased with the product too but something fishy is going on there .. ,(
I still trust Kelvin will turn this around, thats why i stick with him till now and didnt bitch about it at all, but its hard not to feel bad when you know you lost x,xxx$ due to downtime.(imagine all of us)
@mmtj from what i understood from bhw, he will only refund us the days it was down, so around 2 weeks only
@eLeSlash I was more referring to the server crashing due to too many incoming connections hitting at the same time. That can definitely crash a server. I'm not defending him, he's making plenty of money to upgrade and hire someone to develop a fail safe as well as customer support.
Welcome back Kelvin.
This whole thing reminded me of years ago trying to find reliable proxy providers. I used to have to use 2 or 3 different providers at a time just to keep from having long periods of down time.
and u know guys he gave me 10 days free of down time. LOL service is down whole month from me and i got 10 days. wow..
still no reply of tickets.
and why only 10 if the service was down for ~20 days ?
So if you want a refund just opened a paypal dispute