Jorge D.

1/ Quora is full of fake questions and answers made by companies, startups, lobbies. Then, they answer themselves to usually advertise a website.

2/ Quora is also the place of mythomaniac sociopaths who want to get attention and play the sermonisers. For instance, some people want to be seen as millionaires, CEO of big companies but in fact they are unemployed, retired or students. I have investigated their names of people and their references to discover that they were much smaller than what they wanted people to think. Quora is packed with story tellers. They upload a generic picture and they make up a sensational fake story. So, then, they get lots of +1 and they are aroused by the high score. You read stories on quora, of people who made 1 million dollars in 1 month, people who helped their entourage. In the answers of Quora, people are the best. They are always rich, clever, welcoming, caring.

I think that this is just a big lie. I think quorans pretend to be rich but in fact they are poor. I think quorans pretend to be a PHd and in fact they never went to university. Quora is the matrix. It is a virtual world.

3/Some of them just paraphrase your questions in the answer. (i must admit they are talented at it).
They may answer with mainstream opinions that we can find on wikipedia.
After reading 5 answers you discover that you have no answer is accurate for your question. In 90% of the cases, you get no real answer to your question.

4/If you need an advice from an expert, don't go to quora because there are no experts there. Don't be misled by the nice references like Phd in theoritical physics... If there would be experts on quora, the answers would not be as simplistic as now. The Quorans pretend to be experts in everything. But when you read the answers you understand that there is a twist. How is it possible to see so many PHd, engineers, senior programmers, system architects, CEO, CFO on quora with so many low quality answers?

They are liars obviously.

I noticed that when I asked precise questions about a serious topic I had no answers. I had no answers to serious questions and many answers to superficial questions.

COnclusion:
If you are an expert about something, don't share you knowledge for free, create a blog. Otherwise, if you are a serious contributor on quora, by creating content on Quora, you help them to make money. You should better create a blog if you are an expert. You can also contribute to Wikipedia. Wikipedia is not perfect but it is a better source of information than Quora.

Be aware that quora is a time waster. You should block their emails because every time you read a Quora email you are wasting your time. If let's say 90% of the answers of quora are useless, it means that You waste 90% of your time when you read answers on quora.

I bought online a service to incorporate a Gibraltar company. I followed the list of required papers for due diligence. However, after I provided the papers they asked me to provide other papers. One was my personal tax report. It was not listed in the requirements.
I had none for the country where i lived because I moved to this new country
They didn't reimburse me even if I told them I could not provide the personal tax report. They are located in Hong Kong, and there is nothing I could do further.

I think they looked for additional due diligence to block the process. They only have a real incorporation office for HK and then they just contact other incorporation agents from all over the world to incorporate a company or open a bank account. Their site makes you believe that things are going to be easier if you hire them, but it is not true.

By the way, this is review is a real one, maybe unlike other reviews here for this company. Take the number of reviews into consideration and you will understand.

My advice:
Don't share your knowledge for free on Stackexchange, you will never be rewarded for it. Better create a blog. A blog can bring you job, customers, fans, money.

The information quality of this website is over-estimated. Normally, we should get answers from very wise users. However, they are users on this website who don't deserve their points and don't really answer the question. They just debate about the question without dropping a line of code.

From a technical point of view, many questions should be simple to solve. The person who answers should have the necessary lines of codes, lines of command or directives. However, Most of the time, some argue and you can do NOTHING with what their answer. They just fill up the blank. So, you read the 2 or 3 first answers to discover they aren't helpful for your problem. So it means that you wasted several minutes reading.

How it is possible since these answers get voted?

I am suspicious about the +1 those low-quality answers get. I wonder if some people didn't create bots just to get a better ranking.

You may read 5 answers thinking they are helpful and after thinking about it, you discover none of them are useful for your problem. Stackexchange is an ersatz of a support website.

Just like for Quora, people pretend to be knowledgeable about subjects, but they don't.

There is only a small percentage of knowledgeable people on Stackexchange, and those people are never rewarded just like they should.

Don't trust stackoverflow. Be very careful when you copy and paste code from stackoverflow.

There are so many people on this website who don't deserve their score. They aren't knowledgeable at all.
1. Many posts don't answer the technical issue but they get well ranked which is a nonsense When it is technical it should be easy. Step 1, step 2, step 3. For example, when it comes to programming. Pieces of code can answer any questions.
2. Some contributors are rude and they answer "read the manual", however they get thumbs up. How is it possible?
3. Here is the most important, people who share brilliant ideas and answers are not rewarded. It is not normal to see brilliant answers at the bottom of the page.
4. Some people are arrogant and try to argue rather than being pro and get straight to the point.
5. There are -1 that are given to good questions and good answers. You may see people receiving minus one for no reasons.
6. The moderators are stupid nazis. If the moderation of stackoverflow was efficient, there would not be so much garbage on Stackoverflow.
7. People only copy / paste pieces of official documentation like php.net
8. People paraphrase the official documentation without understanding it.
9. Some people talk philosophy while we expect to see code. So, after reading 4 responses you discover that you learned nothing.
10. Some pieces of code can be dangerous and don't blindly trust this code.

They changed their domain name from sfm-offshore.com to sfm.com. Some years ago, I have ordered a Seychelles company. Just after placing the order, the representative of SFM located in DubaÏ took a 15-day leave. Then, after 15 days, I have sent all the administrative papers they asked me to send. At some point they contacted me pretending that the signatures were different on two papers. So, I contacted them saying that I have signed every paper. According to them, the signatures were not identical. They sent me a page asking me to declare that I changed my signature. I understood at this point that I was scammed. I lost 1500 euros. They were really good players. They answered slowly to make it as painful as possible.
Additionnally, be cautious about the fake reviews of SFM on the internet. You can see reviewers who only posted 1 review. I think those ones are fake. By the way, to this date, I haven't received an invoice.
UPDATE 2022:
In the SFM, they said they could not locate my information in their system. It is normal I didn't answer their request to provide my details. I don't want to get my money back and delete this message. I prefer people to know what SFM is about.

I posted a job which was a google extension. I needed half a letter size of code. One gentleman applied for the job. I have suggested $30. He agreed on the price for coding this chrome extension.
Then, he asked me to chat on skype. I gave him my skype account. On Skype, he asked me to pay more money for the project. I said no and I stopped here.
I am not a pro of coding chrome extension but I am a pro in Javascript. It took me 8 hours to code the extension myself.
Then, I discovered it wasn't possible to get my money back. I was happy I only spent $30. I only lost $30
So, you may think I am stingy. However, If I would have spent $200, who say that I would have had something in return? I would have likely lost $200 in guru.com

First of all, this forum is a mess and it is full of advertisement. Then, when you ask a question people pretend to answer but they don't add any value. This forum is packed with trolls. They pretend to know and be expert. They pretend to be winners and in fact, they know nothing and are unhelpful. BHW is a big waste of time.
Advertisement on this forum is like burning money. I is extremely expensive and in fact, the visitors of this forum aren't buyers. They are code kiddies, hacker wanabes. It is not interesting at all.

Blocked purchase after payment confirmation. They ask for due diligence (additional papers) after you pay. Avoid them at any price. This can delay a purchase by 24 hours.

I think that Avangate aka 2checkout aka Verifone is one of the only payment processor that block payment for due diligence after a successful paypal payment confirmation. After i performed a paypal payment on the payment page, Avangate sent me link to my email address to confirm my paypal email address. This is done AFTER the reception of the successful payment from Paypal to confirm the payment! Then, even after the successful payment and the successful link confirmation they blocked the delivery of the service (a VPN service) because they wanted more due diligence.

I really wonder if all of that is legal because their process isn't mentioned upfront. Since they are located in the Netherlands, it would be worth notifying the authorities in the Netherlands. It is like going to the supermarket paying by a credit card, receiving a receipt for confirmation of payment and the cashier would keep all the items you have bought saying, "now we have to perform additional checkups and i will keep your items".

They are also lots of complaints on trustpilot about avangate. This also includes people using avangate as merchants & affiliates. I also had a problem with them as an affiliate.

I was a Cj.com member. At some point I received money from cj.com nevertheless, I noticed the website was very slow. One day, my affiliate program has been stopped for no reasons. However, my affiliate links were still in place on my website and there were always functioning. In other words, I was still sending customers to their website but I didn't receive money for it. Other times, I have subscribed to affiliate programs. Since I didn't make enough money cj.com closed my account several times. However, from a marketing point of view, visitors of my website still clicked on the affiliate links and visited the target website. I subscribed to other affiliate programs and had no problems at all. Cj.com is special. This is i think one of the only website with which I had problem. Furthermore after closing my account, they sent me spam.
Cj.com looks appealing to webmasters and merchant but in fact, many affiliate programs are from websites that look like scams and aren't serious. A website owner can suffer from the bad reputation of those affiliate programs. Website owners waste their time with affiliate programs that aren't serious at all.
Furthermore, the website itself cj.com wasn't available or very slow several times.

I strongly advise you not to order code signatures from this company. They have a very heavy never-ending due diligence. I faced the same issue as a previous sitejabber contributor with the pricey package.

You better sell your application through the Microsoft store only or/and buy your developer signature from Apple if it is for MacOS. The Microsoft store procedure is very light. You can submit an application to Microsoft store without signing the code of your app and Microsoft signs the application on your behalf.
For the Mac App store, it is really easy to get a code certificate from Apple.
The membership of a developer account for Mac and PC are very cheap in both cases (apple and microsoft): almost $100 each for a company. Don't focus on "standalone" distribution. We wasted 1 month for code signature and this could have been used for marketing.

I think this website can be dangerous to people who want to move to a new state, a new country or a new city. They may think the figures of numbeo are correct and they may discover that it is not.
So, numbeo mentions that we should not blindly follow their figures. But if this website is not accurate, what should it be used for?

I think people don't need such a website because there are many websites that offer you real prices of things like online supermarkets, gas price, utility price...

It takes more time to find this information but it is more accurate to find real prices on the internet than average prices.
If you want to know how much it costs somewhere, you can also find a blog where people tell their life story about their expenses. I found that even a blog that is 5 years old is more accurate than numbeo

I thought the fiverr freelancers were good due to the score system. I wanted two simple drawings for my website. I have asked a designer and rather than giving me back 2 drawings, he sent me 1 drawing and it was only a slight modification of his drawing example. I have sent to him additional requirements. At the end, the drawing didn't match my requirement. I hardly believe that the 5-star system of freelancers is accurate. My requirements were very simple. I needed a drawing of a little character holding a letter format paper. However, none of them were able to deliver this basic requirement.

I know this discussion board since several years now. I was part of the mentor group. This discussion forum is packed with cocky and arrogant members who pretend to know something about offshore, cryptos and EMI. They are very good at paraphrasing you. For instance, if you say: "this EMI is good", they will answer "good is this emi". I followed advice of this forum and it cost me money. For example, I incorporated A belize company only to discover that it was useless. The mentor group is also useless. Information in the hidden forums appears to be useless. This forum is an empty shell. Better read reviews of financial websites on sitejabber and trustpilot.

Please consider another technical Q&A website if you want to gain reputation in the business. In fact, this website has stupid rules. For instance, if your question is too broad, you can get downvoted because some users have thought your question is too broad. If they don't understand what you mean, you can get downvoted and they can put your question on hold.

From a score system perspective, even quora is way better. At serverfault, i saw people with huge score and very little knowledge and i still wonder why they have so big scores. Some answers are stupid, some answers don't answer the questions and still get upvoted.

If you want to share your knowledge, create a blog.

I have experience with many many customer support teams from godaddy, bluehost & others... I didn't complain, but with gandi i have found them arrogant and unhelpful. I had a major problem and and they told me to do what i have tried already and could be checked from their end.
Also, i have not seen any whois privacy service. They only hide few information about yourself. Also their DNS editor is very complicated to use. The name of their servers is also complicated.
They provide free email service but today, the service is down for 3 hours.

I have tested their server cloud and found it was more expensive than other clouds.

I paid 150 euros, and I expected their service to be reliable. Their server shut down 3 times and then I decided to stop my subscription. They have only one server and when the server is down, visits aren't recorded. So, In the course of 4 months, the first day of lost stats, I said ok it can happen, the second time, i said ok, the third time, I decided to unsubscribe.
I contacted the support. The defense of the support was: "but you know, even google face this problem with server." /// I didn't try to argue. It was just not acceptable.
So, taking into account the reliability of their service and the pricing, I would not recommend to subscribe to statcounter.

I thought it was a easy test system. I order several kits. I wanted my liver and kidney tested. First of all, I want to say, my skin is hypersensitive. I ordered a letsgetchecked test kit because I was looking for a non painful test. Then, I discovered I was wrong. The more i looked into it and the more it was not ok. First of all, they ask you to prick a finger, this is one of the most sensitive part of the body. Then, you must massage your finger over and over again, to obtain enough blood for the test sample.
They suggest to use several lancets and prick you several times, if you can't get it. The lancets are not really thin!. This is exactly my case. I think I would have needed to prick myself several times. Then it is your job to extract enough blood from your body to pour the blood sample tubes.
After several tries, I understood it was easier and less painful to go to a medical lab and let a professional nurse pricks you. The professionals know where to prick you. They know to get a good amount of blood from your body in a short period without you being aware of it. Also, one of the nurses showed me the nneedle they used and they have found that this was smaller than the letgetscheck lancet.

I strongly advise you not to order code signature at this company. They have very heavy never ending due diligence.

You better sell your application through the Microsoft store only and buy your developer signature from Apple if it is for MacOS. The Microsoft store procedure is very light. You can submit an application to Microsoft store without signing and Microsoft signs the application on your behalf. The membership is very cheap in both cases (apple and microsoft): almost $100 each for a company. Don't focus on "standalone" distribution. We wasted 1 month for code sign. And this could have been used for marketing.

I am surprised to see how many good reviews I can read about prestashop online. I bought several addons that didn't work and discovered that the support of Prestashop is really bad. The prestashop comunity is very unactive and small. When you go for prestashop, you are forced to hire high paid programmers who are the only one s to understand prestashop

They understood what any bank customer needs. As little due diligence as possible. They never block money transfer in Europe. A simple website with the right data. There is no token that you must use. The application is simple. There is the minimum of handling. Also, they are available at Office hours by Live chat which is the best possible way of communication. Also, you can receive you card everywhere in Europe.
My N26 card was never declined on any website.
I have visited the facebook groups of people who were upset about N26. These people don't exactly explain why their bank account was terminated by n26.
In Europe, N26 is one of the best online banks.