mrclean81
05-23-2012, 12:12 AM
This may turn into a full blown rant, but here it goes. For the past 3 days I`ve been trying to join a forum dedicated to comic/toy collectors of a specific brand. Its clearly stated you will be banned from the site for talking bad about them anywhere on the web so I can`t say any more than that lol. Anyway, I spent the first 5 hours trying to register because every email address I have was rejected because it wasn`t the address provided by my ISP. The thing is, I have Version WiFi and they don`t provide email. The customer support email didn`t work, and under the "Contact Us" section I left a generic message with no reply. I finally talked my wife into letting me use her University email just so I could register. Once that was done, I find a write up for new users about how to change your email to Gmail or Yahoo or whatever. For a $10.00 donation to the site, you can change your email to whatever you like. Thank God! I sent a donation, but couldn`t contact anyone about how to change my address. It turns out new members aren`t able to post, contact moderators, or do anything until the administration could review the account. Its been 2 days and still nothing. I`m not sure where a forum benefits from making it so difficult just to join. If it wasn`t for the fact that I`m trying to sell about 10 Grand worth of rare toys and comics I would have said forget it after my email was rejected the first time. I`m just wondering if others have ran into this at some point, and for those who know a lot about the inside workings of these sites, why would someone set up an online community to be such a pita just to get in the door?