"Courage and perseverance are important if one is to run anything resembling a news organization...the folks at theOtaku.com have demonstrated themselves to have ample quantities of both."
~ TCJ (The Comics Journal)
"A couple years of experience in the Otaku circle have taught me at least one good lesson--to trust Adam."
~ myO member
"Adam is actually a decently accomplished troll."
~ Allamorph
I was once quoted from my first popular website in a magazine ad campaign. I was really poor back then and couldn't afford to buy a copy of the magazine it appeared in. For years I tried to find back issues for my scrap book, but to no avail.
Today, thanks to Google Books and the fact that the ad ran in a Boy Scout magazine, of all places, I found the ad!! I believe I was 16 at the time.
I also think it's funny how they didn't put the apostrophe on "cheaters" - was it my grammar or their typo? I'll never know.
This is how it happened...
Step 1. Sign up for Martial Arts School. Sign 1-year contract with the Educational Funding Company. Contract has an auto-renew clause which is already shady.
Step 2. Before the year is up, tell the school (Renzo Gracie BJJ in NYC) in person and then again over the phone that you don't wish for your account to be renewed. Hear both times that the request has been accepted.
Step 3. Call the Educational Funding Company, which is their billing provider, and, after many calls that go straight to voicemail, finally get to a live person, tell them not to renew your account. Hear that everything is set and that I won't be billed again.
Step 4. Just for good measure because it takes no time, send an email to the school again about the cancellation.
Step 5. Notice one month after your contract wasn't supposed to auto-renew that you've received a charge. WTF?
Step 6. Call your credit card company and tell them to stop all payments. They assure you you'll never be charged again.
Step 7. After SIX MONTHS, notice on your billing statement that you're STILL being charged every month.
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WHY DO COMPANIES LIKE THIS STILL EXIST?!??!?!?! WTF?!?!??!?!?!?!
Now I have to buy it:
Over 500 quiz results were saved today. It feels good to add new stuff to the site.
Also so far there are 3 wonderful entries so far to my Mudkip Challenge.
Who will prevail?
This is a quote I really like from a movie that's not very good:
"It seems to me, the problems you worry yourself sick about never seem to materialize. It's the ones that catch you unexpectedly on a Wednesday afternoon that knock you sideways."
(The movie is ALFIE, not the original but the Jude Law version, lol...)
