Paula H.

While looking for sites to make money, I stumbled across slicethepie.com, and I figured that would be a good money maker. You can review clothes, music, and mobile product cases for money, sometimes bonuses.

Well that quickly fell apart. They want short, choppy reviews, not long lengthy ones. But if you use the same, or similar, words, they'll flag you. They'll often run out of things for you to review. And then, after a week of the site not working, they vaguely banned me for "committing fraud on a proxy server," but would not explain what that meant. Felt like a ban just to be banned.

I've been on Subeta for years, almost six I believe. I enjoyed it most of the time, as it was a good mix of Gaia Online and Neopets, but better. The community was smaller, the staff active, and you didn't have to fight to be heard.

Over the years it has gone a bit downhill, but I've stayed when others I showed the site left.

In the past week they had their annual Gelatin War. I had expressed interest in seeing a character (Kain) because he was one I could relate to. He's blind, runs the Defense Shop, and for someone like me with chronic macular degeneration, I felt he could be one of the few positive characters I could look up to. A staff member, Amber, mentioned in the news comments, replying to me, that we may see more of him in the future. They've made many characters have traits or personalities that appeal to others, and they've all been portrayed as positive.

Well, when it comes to the Gelatin War, he is a simpering coward, depicted as screaming and running through the battle in fear and hiding under the blankets in the shop. If I had not expressed interest, and been replied to by a staff member, I could silently fume about it, but I feel like it was a personal attack.

It bothered me so much that I filed a ticket, and got two different staff members to reply to it. First was Angelina, who gave me the only "I'm sorry" I heard, and even then it was "I'm sorry you're not a fan of the character's portrayal." She then came back with some notes from the NPC staff, saying that Kain was not based on a real person, and that he was focusing on defense, as it was his job. Hiding in fear in his shop is not defense.

She then turned me over to Rasputina, who closed the ticket before I could even reply to what she had said, which was simply another way of saying too bad you're not a fan of the character's personality.

So I messaged Amber herself, the staff member who had replied to me in the first place. When I told her about the ticket and attitude I received, I was told that they could not discuss what happens in tickets, which is fine. But she continued with the no apology train, just saying that Kain was not meant to be a full leader, that he couldn't always be strong, that even Maleria and Shinwa, two goddesses, are not always strong.

So I do feel personally attacked and picked on by the staff, even moreso with no one getting that I am hurt and feel singled out because of it. I also feel like if certain other people (not certain users, but certain personality types) were upset, they would be bending over backwards, a whole heartfelt apology in the news posts, and a complete retooling of the character would have happened immediately.

I had been on Powerpets for years, though I had not logged in in some time. I posted on the Assistance Forum that I was looking to give away my items, their contests took a while and you could only do one at at time, and I saw nowhere to do an art contest.

Well I did not get an answer. Instead my account, which had been active for years and which I had never had a previous warning on, was banned immediately, with no warning, no response to my thread, and no email why.

For a site that should be about virtual pets and community, I always did notice a favoritism among the staff. It was almost always the same people winning site run events and contests, usually those were staff. So if you're looking for a Virtual Pet site, avoid this one. They drop the ban hammer with no warning.

Despite rarely ordering from the site, when there is something, more specifically an Amiibo, in stock I'm looking for, the order is processed and taken care of, and usually at my door, within a week.

My biggest plus is definitely how well packaged they are. Other sites like Amazon cram them in small boxes, and yet there is more than enough space in Best Buy's boxes.

I hadn't used Fiverr in a long time, but I really wanted something done for my birthday. I posted two gig requests, one very specifically stating what I wanted. I got nearly 30 replies from people who cannot or will do not what I wanted, and there is no option to deny, reject, or block. If I'm looking for male anime character fan art, in anime style, then frankly, I don't want realism, or watercolor, or shirt designs.

When I contacted help, the helper decided to tell me to post something else more specifically. They only allow you a 120 character limit, so I posted their wording. And got the exact same thing. The helper then decided to take up for them, saying that they are allowed to post on whatever it is that they feel like if it's an art category.

They don't care about buyers. They don't care if you can't get what you want because people don't want to work with you. They don't care if you get upset because in all over 40 people posted whatever they felt like posting and nothing had anything to do with your request.