FSC taking memberships online now but....

[Squirt]

Something doesn't seem quite right.

http://www.freespeechcoalition.com/online_app.htm

Go there... click which membership you like.. then go right to a CCBill page and pay. Huh? No list of sites.. Corporation or anything. Am I missing something here?

[Slade]

Something doesn't seem quite right.

http://www.freespeechcoalition.com/online_app.htm

Go there... click which membership you like.. then go right to a CCBill page and pay. Huh? No list of sites.. Corporation or anything. Am I missing something here?

They've got a bad bug in their script somewhere.

[Squirt]

They've got a bad bug in their script somewhere.

Now it's saying invalid request.. before it would go right to the CCBill payment page after you selected the dollar amount. Seems shady

[tombarr]

Yeah, seems odd. It appears FSC found the fastest way to take memberships online, something it should have worked out a LOOOOONG time ago which would certainly have facilitated more online membership dues.

CCBill is setup for website membership sales to individuals. Their fraud scrubbing is set up for individuals, not companies. So using their payment pages, there is no way to link your name to a company name, or your company websites.

Using this method would require that once joined as an individual, you would then have to communicate somehow with FSC, convert that join to a company join (if not joining under the webmaster or individual category), and then add your URL's...

Seems lethargic, not because they are trying to defraud, but a short sighted, confusing, and inadequate bridge to a problem that should have been solved long ago by an organization that has a web presence, and represents an incredible number of online porn companies interests.

[tombarr]

Very poor short sighted planning which forced them to use a stop loss quick bandaid fix to take memberships online due to the pending deadline..

Once you join you get taken to a page that links to their membership area, which is not developed yet......... and you get the following note:

If you have recently purchased a membership, our members' area will not be available for several days. We hope you understand that we are trying our best to deal with the sheer volume of membership requests right now. After the 2:00pm PST deadline on Saturday, our first priority will be configuring the members' area for access.

This seems a pretty inept response from an organization that is representing a massive online porn presence..

And if there is this much short sighted planning when it comes to membership dues acceptance, kind of makes you wonder if this short sighted ineptness carries through to their level of preparedness and thoroughness in the suits they bring on behalf of it's members..... or do they use short sighted stop loss crisis management there as well?

I also note, for the benefit of LEE, the statement "....trying our best to deal with the sheer volume of membership requests right now." Can't wait to hear your take on that statement...

[Squirt]

And if there is this much short sighted planning when it comes to membership dues acceptance, kind of makes you wonder if this short sighted ineptness carries through to their level of preparedness and thoroughness in the suits they bring on behalf of it's members..... or do they use short sighted stop loss crisis management there as well?

I agree. I've made this statement elsewhere here today.

I can't help but wonder if the reason they got the preliminary injunction was because they were not prepared to fight yet.

They could have easily used a paypal account and had new signups list all their sites in the notes section OR reference their paypal receipt number in an email where they send a file with all their sites. There... took me all but 10 seconds to find a solution