Comments on: Installing Boonex Dolphin in 42 Minutes http://onlinedatingpost.com/archives/2007/03/installing-boonex-dolphin-in-42-minutes/ Online Dating Industry Consulting & Commentary Sun, 21 Mar 2010 01:13:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Brian http://onlinedatingpost.com/archives/2007/03/installing-boonex-dolphin-in-42-minutes/comment-page-1/#comment-304715 Brian Fri, 26 Feb 2010 03:37:23 +0000 http://onlinedatingpost.com/archives/2007/03/installing-boonex-dolphin-in-42-minutes/#comment-304715 I just want my fucking money back. I read all the claims above and I can say that most of them are true from my brief time trying to get the software working. The whole thing is a scam to collect $$$$ I had to pay to access their forums and pay to remove ads from the software (which never worked by the way). I sent numerous emails to support staff...contacted their "Agents" and only received a reply back when I left a nasty comment on one agents page. But the reply didn't address my issues - it was totally unprofessional and irrelevant. Their premium members are full of shit. They will screw with you and call you newb trying to make you feel stupid which I guess makes most people sign up for "Premium" membership so then they will have that "Premium" tag on their forum avatar. They have special hidden forums for Premium members apparently. Don't be fooled and sucked in. You'll be paying and paying and paying. Luckily I got out at $45 and just called it a loss. PayPal will NOT refund your money. I REPEAT: PAYPAL WILL NOT REFUND YOUR MONEY! So do NOT buy unless maybe you have lots of $$$ and can buy their $999 plan which bumps you up to premium status immediately and *MAY* give you some response from their staff. If you are scammed, you need to file a report with the Australian authorities, http://www.acma.gov.au/interforms/australian_spam_act_advice.asp If you were scammed out of a large amount, I suggest contacting the FBI as well even though this company is in Australia, their web host is in the U.S. https://support.hostforweb.com/i File an abuse complaint with them as well and let them know you will be filing a complaint on their hosting company with the BBB and the Illinois Attorney Generals Office -Consumer Fraud Complaints Department for hosting fraudulent websites and allowing abuse on their networks that break their own TOS: http://www.illinoisattorneygeneral.gov/consumers/filecomplaint.html Host Info: HostForWeb Inc, 7061 N. Kedzie Room 302, Chicago IL 60645 This hosts TOS can be found at http://hostforweb.com/terms.php Where you will see a long list of forbidden activities. One being "Fraudulent Sites of any kind" REPORT! REPORT! REPORT! I just want my fucking money back. I read all the claims above and I can say that most of them are true from my brief time trying to get the software working. The whole thing is a scam to collect $$$$ I had to pay to access their forums and pay to remove ads from the software (which never worked by the way). I sent numerous emails to support staff…contacted their “Agents” and only received a reply back when I left a nasty comment on one agents page. But the reply didn’t address my issues – it was totally unprofessional and irrelevant.

Their premium members are full of shit. They will screw with you and call you newb trying to make you feel stupid which I guess makes most people sign up for “Premium” membership so then they will have that “Premium” tag on their forum avatar. They have special hidden forums for Premium members apparently.

Don’t be fooled and sucked in. You’ll be paying and paying and paying. Luckily I got out at $45 and just called it a loss. PayPal will NOT refund your money. I REPEAT:

PAYPAL WILL NOT REFUND YOUR MONEY!

So do NOT buy unless maybe you have lots of $$$ and can buy their $999 plan which bumps you up to premium status immediately and *MAY* give you some response from their staff.

If you are scammed, you need to file a report with the Australian authorities,
http://www.acma.gov.au/interforms/australian_spam_act_advice.asp

If you were scammed out of a large amount, I suggest contacting the FBI as well even though this company is in Australia, their web host is in the U.S.
https://support.hostforweb.com/i

File an abuse complaint with them as well and let them know you will be filing a complaint on their hosting company with the BBB and the Illinois Attorney Generals Office -Consumer Fraud Complaints Department for hosting fraudulent websites and allowing abuse on their networks that break their own TOS:
http://www.illinoisattorneygeneral.gov/consumers/filecomplaint.html

Host Info:
HostForWeb Inc, 7061 N. Kedzie
Room 302, Chicago IL 60645

This hosts TOS can be found at
http://hostforweb.com/terms.php
Where you will see a long list of forbidden activities. One being “Fraudulent Sites of any kind”

REPORT! REPORT! REPORT!

]]> By: David Evans http://onlinedatingpost.com/archives/2007/03/installing-boonex-dolphin-in-42-minutes/comment-page-1/#comment-299930 David Evans Sat, 02 Jan 2010 16:43:34 +0000 http://onlinedatingpost.com/archives/2007/03/installing-boonex-dolphin-in-42-minutes/#comment-299930 Joe, that must be your review site. Recommend you read up on how to do a software review, what I read was a feature list, there is a big difference. Joe, that must be your review site. Recommend you read up on how to do a software review, what I read was a feature list, there is a big difference.

]]> By: Joe O Farrel http://onlinedatingpost.com/archives/2007/03/installing-boonex-dolphin-in-42-minutes/comment-page-1/#comment-299929 Joe O Farrel Sat, 02 Jan 2010 11:38:10 +0000 http://onlinedatingpost.com/archives/2007/03/installing-boonex-dolphin-in-42-minutes/#comment-299929 I find Boonex quite straight forward - but I wonder how it does up against packages like socialengine and phpfox. Boonex received a good review on below site: http://www.TopCommunitySoftware.com , but if anyone has any experience with packages like phpfox, please post it! I find Boonex quite straight forward – but I wonder how it does up against packages like socialengine and phpfox. Boonex received a good review on below site: http://www.TopCommunitySoftware.com , but if anyone has any experience with packages like phpfox, please post it!

]]> By: Apollo47 http://onlinedatingpost.com/archives/2007/03/installing-boonex-dolphin-in-42-minutes/comment-page-1/#comment-297762 Apollo47 Sat, 19 Dec 2009 14:29:00 +0000 http://onlinedatingpost.com/archives/2007/03/installing-boonex-dolphin-in-42-minutes/#comment-297762 I agree that earlier versions were buggy. That's no different to any other software. If you have a programming background like me, you will understand this. Even MS have produced buggy stuff, and they have billions of dollars behind them. The latest version Dolphin7 RC3 is pretty flashy and works well for me. For the price they are asking for a full license, its very very cheap compared to other specialized commercial software. The company i work for charges a minimum of $5000- for software that's also buggy and it's NOT open source, no free versions, and also charges on-going fees. I believe Boonex is trying hard. I chose my hosting service very carefully, paid a bit more, and not had any insolvable problems. Dolphin if free, free licenses, open-source and hugely better than any other low price or free dating software around. I agree that earlier versions were buggy. That’s no different to any other software. If you have a programming background like me, you will understand this. Even MS have produced buggy stuff, and they have billions of dollars behind them. The latest version Dolphin7 RC3 is pretty flashy and works well for me. For the price they are asking for a full license, its very very cheap compared to other specialized commercial software. The company i work for charges a minimum of $5000- for software that’s also buggy and it’s NOT open source, no free versions, and also charges on-going fees.
I believe Boonex is trying hard. I chose my hosting service very carefully, paid a bit more, and not had any insolvable problems.
Dolphin if free, free licenses, open-source and hugely better than any other low price or free dating software around.

]]> By: jokk http://onlinedatingpost.com/archives/2007/03/installing-boonex-dolphin-in-42-minutes/comment-page-1/#comment-295542 jokk Fri, 11 Dec 2009 17:36:56 +0000 http://onlinedatingpost.com/archives/2007/03/installing-boonex-dolphin-in-42-minutes/#comment-295542 Agree with boonex being a total scam, ive never seem anything like it in my life. The way Its leader "Andrew treats its members is terrible, even to the point now that he has turned nasty and insulting against the very many members complaints that are now in the blogs, which are very censored to hide the truth about Boonex. VictorT who is his running mate, sends out very nasty emails to members who dare complain and things are really very uncomfortable for all. Andrew lies all the time in the blogs to string people along with this new dolphin 7, which is now in its 8th Beta, and still no sign of it ever working, but of course Andrew says the RC is imminent, then comes up with some excuse to why it hasn't been released yet again,some member has recently called him out on this, and the reply was, "No promises were made,(which is a lie) officially dolphin 7 doesn't exist and it will be ready when its ready" to the shock of most people, and now long standing members are leaving Boonex because experienced users can see there is something really wrong with the software, and company ethics. We can smell a rat when we see one, and Andrew is the biggest rat of them all. This is not good software, and its an even worse company to be involved with. My advice to anyone thinking of using this software is simply dont, it doesn't work, and to get anything good out of it you have to mod it out and recode everything,all of which of course means spending money,and some of the main basic mods are being written and sold by boonex staff themselves. This is a very clever scam which is catching a lot of people. Dont you be one of them. Agree with boonex being a total scam, ive never seem anything like it in my life. The way Its leader “Andrew treats its members is terrible, even to the point now that he has turned nasty and insulting against the very many members complaints that are now in the blogs, which are very censored to hide the truth about Boonex. VictorT who is his running mate, sends out very nasty emails to members who dare complain and things are really very uncomfortable for all. Andrew lies all the time in the blogs to string people along with this new dolphin 7, which is now in its 8th Beta, and still no sign of it ever working, but of course Andrew says the RC is imminent, then comes up with some excuse to why it hasn’t been released yet again,some member has recently called him out on this, and the reply was, “No promises were made,(which is a lie) officially dolphin 7 doesn’t exist and it will be ready when its ready” to the shock of most people, and now long standing members are leaving Boonex because experienced users can see there is something really wrong with the software, and company ethics. We can smell a rat when we see one, and Andrew is the biggest rat of them all.
This is not good software, and its an even worse company to be involved with. My advice to anyone thinking of using this software is simply dont, it doesn’t work, and to get anything good out of it you have to mod it out and recode everything,all of which of course means spending money,and some of the main basic mods are being written and sold by boonex staff themselves. This is a very clever scam which is catching a lot of people. Dont you be one of them.

]]> By: Zalupuvrot http://onlinedatingpost.com/archives/2007/03/installing-boonex-dolphin-in-42-minutes/comment-page-1/#comment-238136 Zalupuvrot Thu, 30 Apr 2009 23:48:41 +0000 http://onlinedatingpost.com/archives/2007/03/installing-boonex-dolphin-in-42-minutes/#comment-238136 BOONEX DOLPHIN ARE FRIENDS OF SKADATE ALSO KNOWN AS SCAMDATE AND KYRGIZ SCAMMERS!!! Andrey Sivtsov is a famous Kyrgiz scammer. Boonex states that it is a US-based company, which is A TOTAL LIE! (If you are a man who somehow still haven't heard anything about Scamdate, read http://www.topix.com/forum/who/scam/TCS27T4P67FRVPBB9 just to be in the picture). Let us look at the whois info, to start with: http://whois.domaintools.com/aedating.com (it is one of the Boonex major sites). Registrant: Yulia Sivtsova mikroraion Asanbay d.2 kv.54 Bishkek 720060 Kyrgyzstan Nice, is not it? :-) (Cowards usually use the name of their wives to register domains by the way). If you go to http://www.aedating.com you will be redirected to Boonex.com, the main scam site of the scammer Andrey Sivtsov who now has changed the name to Andrew Boon, you can see it here: http://www.crunchbase.com/company/boonex , after registering an offshore in Australia :-) You may ask, well, the script is "free", how does he scam people? It is very simple: to have the copyright removed, mods added, bugs (which are numerous) removed, you will have to PAY, PAY, PAY, and pay for a very long time. You will pay a lot of money. You will also frequently see such messages: Product is available for contributors only And so you become a contributor how? Thought you'd never ask! "You can become a contributor by donating $40 a month to ExpertZZZ. Nice scheme, eh? :-) There is a lot to learn from Kyrgiz scammers Boonex Dolphin. If you did not know the script Boonex Dolphin has bugs, you can check this link: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&newwindow=1&q=boonex+vulnerability&btnG=Search It will show you the real state of things. Please be warned, Boonex Dolphin is a buggy product made by a Kyrgiz scam company. Do not repeat my mistakes. BOONEX DOLPHIN ARE FRIENDS OF SKADATE ALSO KNOWN AS SCAMDATE AND KYRGIZ SCAMMERS!!! Andrey Sivtsov is a famous Kyrgiz scammer. Boonex states that it is a US-based company, which is A TOTAL LIE! (If you are a man who somehow still haven’t heard anything about Scamdate, read http://www.topix.com/forum/who/scam/TCS27T4P67FRVPBB9 just to be in the picture).
Let us look at the whois info, to start with: http://whois.domaintools.com/aedating.com (it is one of the Boonex major sites).
Registrant:
Yulia Sivtsova
mikroraion Asanbay d.2 kv.54
Bishkek 720060
Kyrgyzstan
Nice, is not it? :-) (Cowards usually use the name of their wives to register domains by the way). If you go to http://www.aedating.com you will be redirected to Boonex.com, the main scam site of the scammer Andrey Sivtsov who now has changed the name to Andrew Boon, you can see it here: http://www.crunchbase.com/company/boonex , after registering an offshore in Australia :-)
You may ask, well, the script is “free”, how does he scam people? It is very simple: to have the copyright removed, mods added, bugs (which are numerous) removed, you will have to PAY, PAY, PAY, and pay for a very long time. You will pay a lot of money. You will also frequently see such messages:
Product is available for contributors only
And so you become a contributor how? Thought you’d never ask!
“You can become a contributor by donating $40 a month to ExpertZZZ. Nice scheme, eh? :-) There is a lot to learn from Kyrgiz scammers Boonex Dolphin.
If you did not know the script Boonex Dolphin has bugs, you can check this link: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&newwindow=1&q=boonex+vulnerability&btnG=Search
It will show you the real state of things.
Please be warned, Boonex Dolphin is a buggy product made by a Kyrgiz scam company. Do not repeat my mistakes.

]]> By: charlie http://onlinedatingpost.com/archives/2007/03/installing-boonex-dolphin-in-42-minutes/comment-page-1/#comment-235497 charlie Mon, 02 Feb 2009 19:52:11 +0000 http://onlinedatingpost.com/archives/2007/03/installing-boonex-dolphin-in-42-minutes/#comment-235497 42 minutes? wow. dude i did it in 10. dolphin v6 rocks, its better than SE, PHPfox........ 42 minutes?
wow. dude i did it in 10.
dolphin v6 rocks, its better than SE, PHPfox……..

]]> By: Bob http://onlinedatingpost.com/archives/2007/03/installing-boonex-dolphin-in-42-minutes/comment-page-1/#comment-235487 Bob Sat, 31 Jan 2009 15:36:30 +0000 http://onlinedatingpost.com/archives/2007/03/installing-boonex-dolphin-in-42-minutes/#comment-235487 This thread is old. Dolphin has come a long long way. There are something like 2500 mods for it and an enormous community. I have installed it and so far I am very impressed. dolphin is free..licenses are free. where they make there money is offering a media server addon--Ray which is for live chat, live cam and has some other interesting widgets. Small adds are displayed in the Ray interface and the forum addon in return for using there bandwidth for these functions. A 33 dollars a year License remove any adds in dolphin footer Another 33 dollars a year License remove any adds in RaY Another 33 dollars a year License remove any adds in Orca Forum software. If you want to the remove adds, it´s till cheap compared to other software out there. This thread is old.
Dolphin has come a long long way.
There are something like 2500 mods for it and an enormous community.
I have installed it and so far I am very impressed.
dolphin is free..licenses are free.
where they make there money is offering a media server addon–Ray which is for live chat, live cam and has some other interesting widgets.
Small adds are displayed in the Ray interface and the forum addon in return for using there bandwidth for these functions.
A 33 dollars a year License remove any adds in dolphin footer
Another 33 dollars a year License remove any adds in RaY
Another 33 dollars a year License remove any adds in Orca Forum software.
If you want to the remove adds, it´s till cheap compared to other software out there.

]]> By: Alex http://onlinedatingpost.com/archives/2007/03/installing-boonex-dolphin-in-42-minutes/comment-page-1/#comment-235281 Alex Tue, 13 Jan 2009 17:22:13 +0000 http://onlinedatingpost.com/archives/2007/03/installing-boonex-dolphin-in-42-minutes/#comment-235281 Oh yeas forgot to say, there is also software called ELGG, but that is really crappy piece of software. I tried to install it and stacked on the installation because of crappy sql file. after going through it and fixing all that crap I just gave up and decided never consider it as a software anymore. Oh yeas forgot to say, there is also software called ELGG, but that is really crappy piece of software. I tried to install it and stacked on the installation because of crappy sql file. after going through it and fixing all that crap I just gave up and decided never consider it as a software anymore.

]]> By: Alex http://onlinedatingpost.com/archives/2007/03/installing-boonex-dolphin-in-42-minutes/comment-page-1/#comment-235280 Alex Tue, 13 Jan 2009 17:20:06 +0000 http://onlinedatingpost.com/archives/2007/03/installing-boonex-dolphin-in-42-minutes/#comment-235280 Well, I'm using dolphin right now for a different purpose(not dating site) and it is OK. I don't say it's totally bad as well as can't say that it's perfect. But as soon as you get used to it u are unlimited. Those who don't know how to create a website from sketch, better not modify dolphin as well as it's kind of complicated system. But it's worth of itself. Well, I’m using dolphin right now for a different purpose(not dating site) and it is OK. I don’t say it’s totally bad as well as can’t say that it’s perfect. But as soon as you get used to it u are unlimited. Those who don’t know how to create a website from sketch, better not modify dolphin as well as it’s kind of complicated system. But it’s worth of itself.

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