Argh!
Monday, January 15
First of all I will start by saying there are far too
many idiots in this world. The gene pool definitely
needs some more chlorine (I always loved that line :)
) I am sure you all will agree. You're free to be an
idiot just don't rain on everyone else's parade.
That's all I will say there.
The other thing that is causing me MAJOR stresses in my life is this stupid merchant account. Definitely been the biggest pain in my ass for the past few weeks. Basically it's all good to go for buyers in the United States but the program I am using does not allow international transactions even though I am told that my merchant account is fine to process cards with international billing addresses. This is something I will have to confirm 100% tomorrow.
While I'm talking about idiots, don't you think the provider I am using to connect to my merchant account should know definitively whether or not international addresses would be accepted by the system. Gosh! I am horrible for thinking I can call and ask this question and get an answer one way or the other. Nope. Instead I am faced with an ill-trained customer service rep who say he doesn't think it will (even though, mind you, I spoke to another just the other day who told me it would be no problem). Given that contradiction, I asked for a definite yes or no. Did I get it? Nope. Instead, I got "well I personally would say no". I'm sorry I didn't realize my question was misconstrued as a question asking his "opinion". When I asked if he had any experience in this department he said no. So basically I could've asked the bum on the street the same question and his expertise would of been equal with this nimwit. The worst part about it was that after 20 minutes on the phone he flatly refused to get someone on the phone who did have experience in this department and instead told me I was getting "too worked up".
In the end I was told that even though my merchant account supposedly (I put that in italics because who the hell knows at this point) accepts international transactions their interface does not which is something they are "working on". It was then suggested to me that I sent an email to their web developers making the "suggestion." Um, that doesn't help with the current situation especially since I am paying a monthly fee to use this stupid interface.
The problem is I can't figure out the damn code I need for this stinking gateway and they customer service reps over there are even less helpful than the idiots in the last place. They suggest I hire a developer which will charge me up the wazoo for something I KNOW is super simple if I just knew the programming language. So I went to Borders and bough and insanely huge novel of a manual that is supposed to teach me. HA. We'll see how this goes. In the mean time I am working on alternatives.
Ok enough of my irritating rant... lol Off to read my new book. Apparently it's going to teach me how to make a members only area too. We shall see.
xoxo,
Mackenzie
The other thing that is causing me MAJOR stresses in my life is this stupid merchant account. Definitely been the biggest pain in my ass for the past few weeks. Basically it's all good to go for buyers in the United States but the program I am using does not allow international transactions even though I am told that my merchant account is fine to process cards with international billing addresses. This is something I will have to confirm 100% tomorrow.
While I'm talking about idiots, don't you think the provider I am using to connect to my merchant account should know definitively whether or not international addresses would be accepted by the system. Gosh! I am horrible for thinking I can call and ask this question and get an answer one way or the other. Nope. Instead I am faced with an ill-trained customer service rep who say he doesn't think it will (even though, mind you, I spoke to another just the other day who told me it would be no problem). Given that contradiction, I asked for a definite yes or no. Did I get it? Nope. Instead, I got "well I personally would say no". I'm sorry I didn't realize my question was misconstrued as a question asking his "opinion". When I asked if he had any experience in this department he said no. So basically I could've asked the bum on the street the same question and his expertise would of been equal with this nimwit. The worst part about it was that after 20 minutes on the phone he flatly refused to get someone on the phone who did have experience in this department and instead told me I was getting "too worked up".
In the end I was told that even though my merchant account supposedly (I put that in italics because who the hell knows at this point) accepts international transactions their interface does not which is something they are "working on". It was then suggested to me that I sent an email to their web developers making the "suggestion." Um, that doesn't help with the current situation especially since I am paying a monthly fee to use this stupid interface.
The problem is I can't figure out the damn code I need for this stinking gateway and they customer service reps over there are even less helpful than the idiots in the last place. They suggest I hire a developer which will charge me up the wazoo for something I KNOW is super simple if I just knew the programming language. So I went to Borders and bough and insanely huge novel of a manual that is supposed to teach me. HA. We'll see how this goes. In the mean time I am working on alternatives.
Ok enough of my irritating rant... lol Off to read my new book. Apparently it's going to teach me how to make a members only area too. We shall see.
xoxo,
Mackenzie
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