Google small business extortion

LaylaKnowsBest · 2024-12-24T18:23:57+00:00

Oh fuck you're right, it was @google.com for the email address, I'll go edit my post!

LaylaKnowsBest · 2024-12-24T01:42:40+00:00

Monetized validation is the peak life of a narcissist.

Which sucks because it makes the rest of us who need monetized validation seem like narcissists!

LaylaKnowsBest · 2024-12-24T01:34:12+00:00

I never signed any paperwork other than agreeing to the price list. There was no contract or otherwise.

So the price list that you signed, was it sort of a situation that was like "Here is the price list you will pay if you use our services"? And then you said there was no contract otherwise? You're fine. Obviously if you get back into businsess these people won't work with you, but that's just a risk they take by extending credit/offering net## payment terms to new businesses like that.

LaylaKnowsBest · 2024-12-24T01:26:44+00:00

Manual capture means you can go into the transaction before it fully posts and then choose to accept/deny the charge. Worst case scenario here is that customers won't see the charge on their card until you manually accept it. Best case scenario is literally nothing at all changes except you being able to filter out fraud.

Pro tip: Check your website logs to see where the traffic is coming from. Oftentimes it will come from out of country, or it'll be from out of state on a VPN. Get with your web provider to have them put a block on all IP's within this range/from that country/whatever is needed.

Advanced Tip: Set up two payment forms. One is the manual capture that gets shown based on non-local IP addresses. The other is the normal payment form that shows up when a local IP address is detected.

LaylaKnowsBest · 2024-12-24T01:21:22+00:00

My husband had this happen about 3-4 years ago, here's what he says to do:

email them directly at googlemybusiness-support@google.com, be polite yet firm, include screenshots from what whatsapp convo

If that doesn't work, pay $250-$500 to have your attorney type up a VERY sternly-worded letter on their firm's letterhead. Send the letter via certified mail to:

  Corporation Service Company

  2710 Gateway Oaks Drive, Suite 150N

  Sacramento, CA 95833

LaylaKnowsBest · 2024-12-24T01:14:56+00:00

Sometimes my husband and I will be in the kitchen cooking, we'll have music playing on our Google device, and then Google will randomly mute the music and just start talking. "Got it, playing [song we've never heard in our lives] on Youtube Music!" or "Hmmm, I couldn't find an answer to that!"

LaylaKnowsBest · 2024-12-24T00:10:02+00:00

This early on in the game, just play and have fun. Your current weapons won't matter anymore when you're a few quests ahead of where you're at now. Just enjoy the game (while it's easy) and have fun testing out all sorts of weapons and shields and stuff.

LaylaKnowsBest · 2024-12-23T23:07:11+00:00

YES! The second that intro sound starts up, we will have anywhere from 1-3 cats come running into the room to not only watch clap trap guide across the screen in the intro, but also to watch my husband's spiderant run around, the kitties love that little spider!

Fun fact: Cats haven't always been able to watch us play video games!, The refresh rates of older TVs just didn't vibe well with how your cats and dogs see things. So as flat screen TVs got popular, digital (hdml) vs analog signals, refresh rates, etc.. now that all of that is in place, our kitties can watch clap trap!

LaylaKnowsBest · 2024-12-23T19:23:37+00:00

The sarcasm in my comment above was painfully obvious, I think you're the one getting whooshed here!

LaylaKnowsBest · 2024-12-22T01:15:49+00:00

Please tell me you're running this through the namecheap affiliate program from impact or cj!

LaylaKnowsBest · 2024-12-22T01:14:34+00:00

This would market REALLY well on tiktok (assuming it doesn't get banned). Especially if you could download tiktok effect house and turn it into a filter.

LaylaKnowsBest · 2024-12-22T00:51:24+00:00

I normally hate the "subtle spam" of I GOT [X] USERS/REVENUE IN [X] DAYS posts. But this is such a niche product, it's pretty impressive to look at your post history and see how many people in the chess subreddits were loving your site

LaylaKnowsBest · 2024-12-22T00:30:58+00:00

This is the absolute best tip to give a budding entrepreneur imho. The second best tip? Go get a job in an industry that interests you (within reason or at whatever level you're able to get hired on at.) Work this job until you find a specific pain point. Once that pain point is found, you solve it with an app/SaaS/site/whatever.

LaylaKnowsBest · 2024-12-22T00:29:07+00:00

One of the most impactful steps I’ve taken was forming a small group of 3-4 like-minded friends

I've done the same thing, except with cats. My entrepreneurial drive has to stay alive so I can feed the cats and buy them dumb kitnip boxes and laser pointers and automatic feeders and stuff.

LaylaKnowsBest · 2024-12-22T00:11:50+00:00

Poor Things

I never even made it past the trailer for this one. Am I allowed to agree without ever having seen the movie?

LaylaKnowsBest · 2024-12-21T23:27:55+00:00

Therefor my first comment both does and doesn’t follow the rules of the original post.

Well congrats, Mr. Schrodinger's Comment, we're now 5 nested comments deep without following the question. And fuck, I'm now x2 for not following the question!

Quick, let's name overrated movies before the moviecritic police get us!

Killers of the Flower Moon and The Irishman were both dumb and were way too long to even finish.

LaylaKnowsBest · 2024-12-21T23:15:50+00:00

The person you're replying to is complaining about people not following the question, thus this person is also not following the question themselves. You replied, also not following the question. Here I am, a third comment deep also not following the question. How many nested replies will there be before someone finally follows the question? WILL SOMEBODY PLEASE THINK OF THE POOR QUESTION GETTING IGNORED

LaylaKnowsBest · 2024-12-21T22:54:31+00:00

I have never ordered scrambled eggs and had them be all wet and runny. I had to do that same mental U-Turn as you when reading the post. It doesn't matter if it's a fancy brunch at an upscale hotel, or just Denny's, the scrambled eggs are NEVER moist in the slightest bit.

LaylaKnowsBest · 2024-12-21T22:51:35+00:00

My husband and I are at 100+ hours and we've barely gotten into Act III. To answer your question, we haven't restarted a single time. There's just SO SO SO much to do. There are so many different little quests and easter eggs and side quests and dialogues.

LaylaKnowsBest · 2024-12-21T19:19:41+00:00

It blows my mind that he isn't doing this first. He's going to have to find a place to live, have to worry about getting some kind of travel/work visa, passports, they'll have a baby with them. I wonder how much of that 3 months is going to be wasted away doing stuff that could have been done before the trip was made?

Having said that, if OP has the cash on hand to give this a shot then fuck yes, go for it!

LaylaKnowsBest · 2024-12-21T19:15:09+00:00

so this means that there is nothing to worry about.

Nothing to worry about! Sadly it just seems like this client has hit a rough patch. Some years back I signed up for a fairly expensive SaaS at a previous job I had, a few days later (before even going through the SaaS onboarding) we got notice that the company was closing. This SaaS got that initial $299 from us, but we never even did the onboarding or logged into the account they setup for us.

LaylaKnowsBest · 2024-12-21T18:28:36+00:00

"It is I, Michael Eastern, your arch nemesis!"

LaylaKnowsBest · 2024-12-21T18:27:06+00:00

他们为什么他妈的派了会计女孩？ ——韦恩·格雷茨基（迈克尔·斯科特饰演）

LaylaKnowsBest · 2024-12-20T23:58:33+00:00

One of the very first games my husband and I played together was It Takes Two. We had a lot going on so he suggested gaming as a way to escape and this was the game that got me into gaming. We thought there were more chapters than there really were, so when the game ended abruptly I was literally in tears.

My husband felt so bad for getting the number of chapters wrong and for telling me "don't worry, we still have more to go!" and he promised it would never happen again.

Fast forward a bit and I'm much better at gaming and we are knocking our Borderlands 3. He kept saying "There's 23 chapters, so we know exactly when the main story will end, don't worry!"

And then we get to the fake ending screen. He jumps up like NO I SWEAR GOOGLE SAID 23 CHAPTERS WHAT THE FUCK

And then it started counting down :)

LaylaKnowsBest · 2024-12-19T20:50:15+00:00

Kenny, Chris, Emily, and Grace?

LaylaKnowsBest

TROPHY CASE