Customer Service
In a momentary lack of focus, I re-upped with TC.com last November. Soon after that poor decision slapped me in the face. Trying to build an add-on to the site, which we were encouraged to do, I was essentially told I do not matter. I laid low for six months as one after another of the big time players left.
I played a little this summer and generally kept to myself. In doing so I ended up on the Delaware leaderboard and extended my membership for free because of it. That ran out eight days ago.
Nine days ago I sent AK a message explaining the forced move and how links to my ~500 logs are now broken. I asked him if he would search and replace ladow.net with rdowens.net. No, I have not heard from him nor has the task been completed.
I am no programmer but I have been able to do both requests that I asked the site to do. I created the Neverending Scavenger Hunt search pages that TC.com does not offer. I just do not know if I have missed any as I had to manually cull the data. I asked for a list of all locationless listings in text form as they had been provided in 2005. In over a year, no time to export that list could be found.
Apparently, no time could be found to run the SQL command for search and replace that takes a split second (literally) to run.
Say what one will, but TC.com has been abandoned. No more dollars from this wallet.
Also blogged on this date . . .
- Is Magazzu Serious? - 2009
- Parsing Diction - 2007
- We Entered the 21st Century Today - 2006
- Lancaster Cache-a-Thon - 2003
- That Good Feeling - 1988
Tags: GPS Games, TerraCaching
By Scout
on 22 December 2008 @ 17:10
AK’s general non-involvement with the site is a mystery. I believe it’s been that way for much more than a year.
By Bob
on 23 December 2008 @ 10:16
It’ll be three years come March. At that point the site will have been but 4.5 years old. Quite disappointing.
By Robert Owens
on 21 December 2009 @ 7:11
Interestingly, no time has been found yet. While I certainly believe AK had no love for me at all, I think his abandonment of the site is more at hand. He left someone who is feckless to “run” the show. Scott has no ability to do anything. Once in a while he is able to nudge AK to look into something, but as in my case, has been ineffective (if he tried at all).
I heard that even the guy running the European terracachig site has left due to not being able to get any support.
How does one justify sending money to Mr. Garvin at this point?