CrankyDave

For the merchants using Authorize.Net as your gateway you might find this useful. If your customer’s street address or postal code contains a letter rather than a number, Authorize.Net AVS will return an AVS mismatch. I use Authorize.Net and I’ve recently started shipping to Canada. I immediately started encountering problems with the Canadian postal codes [...]

It’s been some time since I posted. I know, shame on me. But every once in a while, something simply makes me “cranky”. This is one of those “once in a whiles”. Seems the CEO of Casual Collective, Will Harbin found it appropriate to tell a customer of one of the companies games to “bugger [...]

As a jeweler, I keep my eyes open for jewelry websites… especially niche ones. Animalcharms.net is not only a niche jewelry site, it’s one with a cause. They donate 10% of every sale… right off the top!… to animal charities. It’s not very often I see that from any website. What really got my attention [...]

When I find “interesting” forum threads, I do like to bring them to attention every once in a while. This thread at WPW is one of those. I invite you to read it, and the article I received, as promised, for yourself. Dave —————————————————————— Any webmaster or small business owner that has gone for a [...]

When your business depends upon its internet presence, the worst thing you can do is select a hosting company that is less than reliable. Unfortunately, I know this first hand. Downtime, full log files, loss of functionality, things that don’t work, security issues, and lack of timely support. I was spending far too much time [...]

Any of you not familiar with all the pork that got piled on the Bacon Wrapped Bailout Bill must be in a cave. It’s bad enough we as citizens and taxpayers are having to pony up because of greedy companies with more money wrapped up in CDS than the total national debt. Now we’ve got [...]

The American citizen, the taxpayer, should be infuriated by the bailout bill just passed by congress. Think your representative can’t be bribed? Think your representative is most interested the economy when deciding on how to spend your tax dollars? Then you better think again. It took $110B of earmarks to make a “bad” bill “good”. [...]

I hope the Taste of Westmont Comittee takes the time to read the post Fedakin wrote on the 2008 Taste of Westmont. Fey and his wife drive a couple of hours each year to visit us and attend the taste so take it heart Westmont. First things first… The Cuban Pork sandwiches Feydakin pointed out [...]

Did Coca Cola buy links? Janeth over at WPW pointed to a post that seems to indicate that may be the case. Last Thursday (July 3rd), Coca Cola Brazil launched the drink i9 – Hidrotonico, the Brazilian version of Powerade. As a part of the i9 marketing strategy in blogs & social media, Coca Cola [...]

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