Jamster - Remember That Stupid Frog And Chick?
StormLiong
Join Date: 2002-12-27 Member: 11569Members
Join Date: 2002-12-27 Member: 11569Members
<div class="IPBDescription">the company we all hate</div> I hate this company cos of their stupid audio web ads that out of nowhere will sound when i load an unsuspecting site. Also I had gotten tired of their ads on TV going on and on. I swear I can kill that frog
I was looking information about this company and this one article answered most of my questions about it. Also the fact that it confirms what I tot that this compay has got to be shady with the way they market.
Jamster slammed for mobile selling practices
<!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Jamster, a service owned by VeriSign that sells ringtones and other content to mobile phone subscribers, is under attack for allegedly misleading young consumers into paying for expensive text messages.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
<a href='http://www.infoworld.com/article/05/04/05/HNjamster_1.html' target='_blank'>http://www.infoworld.com/article/05/04/05/HNjamster_1.html</a>
My main puzzlement was where was this company getting all the money to advertise their mobile phone content services all over. Their TV ads are like good quality(in terms of production but not style) for a company that merely sells mobile phone content. Couldn't imagine why Verisign, out of all companies owns them.
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I was looking information about this company and this one article answered most of my questions about it. Also the fact that it confirms what I tot that this compay has got to be shady with the way they market.
Jamster slammed for mobile selling practices
<!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Jamster, a service owned by VeriSign that sells ringtones and other content to mobile phone subscribers, is under attack for allegedly misleading young consumers into paying for expensive text messages.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
<a href='http://www.infoworld.com/article/05/04/05/HNjamster_1.html' target='_blank'>http://www.infoworld.com/article/05/04/05/HNjamster_1.html</a>
My main puzzlement was where was this company getting all the money to advertise their mobile phone content services all over. Their TV ads are like good quality(in terms of production but not style) for a company that merely sells mobile phone content. Couldn't imagine why Verisign, out of all companies owns them.
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we get these cases all the time
Kids sign up once, then get new crap every month after automatically
worse still People buy new phones (not just second hand phones) that use 'recycled' numbers which have previously been signed up, and find themselfs still registered for these guys..
we get these cases all the time
Kids sign up once, then get new crap every month after automatically
worse still People buy new phones (not just second hand phones) that use 'recycled' numbers which have previously been signed up, and find themselfs still registered for these guys.. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
My brother got sold 2 Abos... but he never had this crap on his phone. They just billed him 4 times for doing nothing.
BTW.
The heads behind jamster are some german students. They went to US and saw ebay. They came back to germany and made an ebay-like website. After Ebay germany started they sold their website and the customers to ebay germany.. for 50 million (dollar or euro don't know but meh). With 50 Million normal people would buy a house in L.A. or some other nice place and chill.. but this friggin bastards decided to terrorise the world even worse than osama and the devil together.
we get these cases all the time
Kids sign up once, then get new crap every month after automatically
worse still People buy new phones (not just second hand phones) that use 'recycled' numbers which have previously been signed up, and find themselfs still registered for these guys.. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
My brother got sold 2 Abos... but he never had this crap on his phone. They just billed him 4 times for doing nothing.
BTW.
The heads behind jamster are some german students. They went to US and saw ebay. They came back to germany and made an ebay-like website. After Ebay germany started they sold their website and the customers to ebay germany.. for 50 million (dollar or euro don't know but meh). With 50 Million normal people would buy a house in L.A. or some other nice place and chill.. but this friggin bastards decided to terrorise the world even worse than osama and the devil together. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
Whoa. Now I can see where the capital came from.
You are far to kind, some of you may remember my Jamster topic from awhile ago, and thankfully Comedy Central was wise enough to remove the ads from their station.
However I have had plenty of time to dwell upon the fate of any person who is unfortunate enough to meet me and disclose that they were at anytime a Jamster employee of even the lowliest rank.
First I would knock him/her out with the nearest blunt object and quickly ferry the body to my house. I would next tie the body to a chair and wait for it to wake up. As the sleep and pain cleared from their eyes they would immediately notice that they are looking directly into their own skull.
You see before it woke up I would have ejected a <i>small</i> amount of pain reliever and carefully removed it's eyes and slid them in backwards without severing any of the delicate tendons or nerves.
Naturally this would send it into a fit of terror and panic as the small amount of pain killer begins to wear off and it would be firmly strapped to the chair.
Next I begin the week long process of shaving off all of it's skin with a very small razor blade and randomly splashing vinegar, lemon and lime juice, and anything else I feel would be exceptional painful to have thrown upon bare tissue.
Next I take photographs of the body and send 1000's of them to Jamister along with pictures of assorted family and friends of employees and whatever other personal information I can gather.
Now comes the tricky part, I have to steal a helicopter and get the body onboard, keep in mind it's still alive.
I fly the chopper over to Washington DC and set it in place over the Washington Monument. I grab the withering body and strap a pack of impact sensitive explosives around the torso and hurl it towards the very tip of the obelisk.
If all goes as planned the body should explode on impact showering DC in bits of blood and gore.
Meanwhile, provided the F16's scrambling to shoot me down for violating DC airspace are late, I turn my chopper towards Jamster HQ.
Once there I ram the chopper, packed with explosives and napalm, full speed into the building jumping out at the last second.
With any luck I’ll be able to escape in the confusion as the James Bond theme plays in the MP3 player I brought along for just that purpose.
That was disturbing as all hell.
Sig'd!
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That was disturbing as all hell.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Disturbing... <i><span style='color:green'><b>or awesome.</b></span></i>
Reasa, count me in on your plan. <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
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On the plus side,the US now has a new weapon against the terrorists. Play Crazy Frog and watch them come out and surrender!
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Do I get...money? <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->
That means that you can get Jamster!'s entire catalogue of advertised Video Ringtones in just 3 weeks, being billed for £9 for those 3 weeks, and probably forget to cancel the subscription, and continue to be billed £3 a week, and wonder why you have no credit remaining when you need to ring someone in a 'mergency. GG Jamster! <!--emo&???--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/confused-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
Its nice to know that someone isnt putting u with shuff like that.
could you explain <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
<a href='http://www.jamba.de/' target='_blank'>http://www.jamba.de/</a>
Same company, just different names.
<!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->There is a special plane in hell reserved for you people…I can only hope your suffering is greater then what your putting people through with your flipping advertising blitzkrieg!
My ears are like two Polish peasants being brutally raped by Nazi storm troopers.
Congratulations…you have created spam for the TV, please do humanity a favor and jump off the nearest bridge.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
I can't understand why they wouldn’t respond...I imagine they get 100's of these every day.
Only a matter of time before Europe's most wanted toy at Christmas is a squealing talking frog.
They are evil, evil - do you hear - evil.
Only a matter of time before Europe's most wanted toy at Christmas is a squealing talking frog.
They are evil, evil - do you hear - evil. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
Worst thing you can do is register just to bump a dead thread.
So as long as there's a market for stupid ringtones, Jamster will exist. We need to wipe out pretty much every teenager in the world. Sure, maybe others will die as collateral damage (me, for instance) but I think it's worth it to rid the earth of this plague.
So the next time you see someone with a "Jamster" ring tone, or talking about how cool that "crazy frog song is", batter them to death with anything handy. Inform the authorities of your motive. I doubt they'll make much fuss.
Even before Eidos & SIGames split they created a few new engines and did alot of engine modification and creation of new but similar engines. They simply just never changed the GUI to go with the new engine.