Daily Archives: September 8, 2004

Site Stuff, Tech

iTMS Affiliate Program (Take 2)

Got my reply back from the iTunes Music Store folks…

And as you can see by the pretty little iTunes icon on the right side there… I’m now an official member of the iTunes Music Store affiliate program.. so, either I’m more popular then I thought… or the iTMS folks have got some pretty low standards! (just kidding iTMS guys! I’m sure you have some amazingly high standards for what sites you let into the program!)

So.. if you were planning on making a purchase through the iTMS, I’d ask you to make it by clicking on the link to the right, which lets me get the commission for any purchases you make within 24 hours of clicking on the link. If nothing else, I’d like to try and make enough to pay for the registration fees for the kaelkicksass.com and theteppers.net domains… who knows.. if someone follows that link and buys one of everything.. I could get a decent start on Kael’s college fund

Tech

Buy.com Sucks part 3

The saga comes to a conclusion! (I think)

So.. I started the dispute process with my bank on the 2nd. This morning, buy.com finally posted the credit to my bank.. which I suppose means I should call my bank and let them know the dispute is no longer needed, since the merchant finally managed to figure out how to issue a refund.

On the plus side.. I appear to have found the secret to getting buy.com to actually do something.. if you want your order to ship, cancel it.. apparently in buy.com speak ‘cancel’ translates out to ‘begin shipping process’. If you want your money back… go through your bank and dispute the charge. I suppose, that if I were ever going to buy anything from them again, this would be useful information.

Not surprisingly, given buy.com’s incompetence, I have yet to receive the much promised ‘hey..your credit has been approved’ email that I was repeatedly told would be sent as soon as the ‘request’ for a credit was approved…. figures..they can’t even get an auto-generated email correct!

I’m glad the whole deal is done.. and I’ve definitely learned my lesson.. I’ll never buy anything from buy.com again! (Nor will I allow any friends/family members/people on the street to buy from them)