Posted this on facebook as well. Give me some static pages and redirect to my servers ip?

[MonsterTKE]

Hey guys, I posted this on your FB wall a few minutes ago as well. I don't know the time frame of your site maintenance but I am 100% willing and able to get you at least a temporary page up on a different host. If you can give me a few pages and do an
A-record redirect you can have something up in a matter of minutes.

Or if you give me some art assets I can fire up CS6 and whip something together in 30-60 minutes.

tl;dr; I Posted Popular thread on reddit, lolz ensued, avejuice.com's SQL server released the smoke, and I want to help!

 

[Drumonron]

Nice community spirit....avejuice....for the love of God...take the help....*boba bounty withdrawals*

 

[zapped]

Yeah, I can see that happening Ave trusting their entire database along with peoples credit card info to a member they hardly know.Im sure the sentiment is appreciated but it isnt as easy as all that.

 

[Drumonron]

Yeah, I can see that happening Ave trusting their entire database along with peoples credit card info to a member they hardly know.Im sure the sentiment is appreciated but it isnt as easy as all that.

I understand all that but it was a nice gesture of
support.

 

[MonsterTKE]

Yeah, I can see that happening Ave trusting their entire database along with peoples credit card info to a member they hardly know.Im sure the sentiment is appreciated but it isnt as easy as all that.

You must not read the posts you are responding to...

"I don't know the time frame of your site maintenance but I am 100% willing and able to get you at least a temporary page up on a different host. If you can give me a few pages and do an
A-record redirect you can have something up in a matter of minutes."

I never said anything about hosting their DB or their entire site, I just offered to put up a temporary page, so people aren't seeing a junky white page with "Under construction". It takes zero effort to do a DNS A-record redirect to a new IP and can be revoked by the owner at any time for any reason.

And unless Ave owns their own PCI compliant server (Which they don't), they don't have anyone's credit card info anyway.

 

[MonsterTKE]

Nevermind....

 

[thedub412]

Yeah, I can see that happening Ave trusting their entire database along with peoples credit card info to a member they hardly know.Im sure the sentiment is appreciated but it isnt as easy as all that.

This is a funny point because it's an argument I had with a friend the other day. His worry about vaping and not quitting analogs was that most vendors (hardware and juice) are small shops operating out of homes with day jobs. What about your CC info.

Just an FYI to most if you worry about this, most vendors we use go through 3rd party companies for their transactions, much as stores that use the point of sale systems for theirs. This releases the actual store or vendor from the liability of what you just mentioned.

 

[MonsterTKE]

I would put that # at nearly 100%. It is incredibly difficult to host your own PCI compliant server, not to mention the credit card companies don't really like e-cig and juice vendors.

 

[thedub412]

I would put that # at nearly 100%. It is incredibly difficult to host your own PCI compliant server, not to mention the credit card companies don't really like e-cig and juice vendors.

They don't like vendors period... unless you are a big box store - and even then it is iffy. We had tons of charge backs when I ran a Marathon location that was owned locally. They also charge for each transaction (I can't remember the pricing, I think it was a percentage of the sale, but it could have been a flat rate), that's why a lot of places have the debit pop up first, then you have to cancel out to use credit if you use an ATM card.

 

[MonsterTKE]

We had tons of charge backs when I ran a Marathon location that was owned locally.

You guys must have been in a larger network then, with these smaller vendors in an iffy category, you and 4 - 5 of your friends could order then chargeback and basically shut a vendor down overnight.

 

[thedub412]

You guys must have been in a larger network then, with these smaller vendors in an iffy category, you and 4 - 5 of your friends could order then chargeback and basically shut a vendor down overnight.

I think that the Marathon name did it... as far as I remember (this was about 10 years ago), the owner actually came into play because it was one group of people (think family/family friends) that kept doing it, realizing they could get away with it because the CC companies usually just do what you say. I'm pretty sure they don't have credit anymore.

 

[MonsterTKE]

I think that the Marathon name did it... as far as I remember (this was about 10 years ago), the owner actually came into play because it was one group of people (think family/family friends) that kept doing it, realizing they could get away with it because the CC companies usually just do what you say.

Yeah they will write it off as fraud and attempt to prosecute if it is bad enough. I have actually won enough disputes through paypal that I have "Exeptional account performance" and they no longer hold funds that are in dispute on my account.

 

[thedub412]

Yeah they will write it off as fraud and attempt to prosecute if it is bad enough. I have actually won enough disputes through paypal that I have "Exeptional account performance" and they no longer hold funds that are in dispute on my account.

This is why I stopped selling stuff on eBay a long time ago - I used to rebuild old gen iPods and sell them off there, but so many people would not read that they were rebuilds and not guaranteed that I had to shut the store down. It just wasn't worth the effort - good on you for following through, haha!