Which isn’t to say I find Experts Exchange dot Com not to be completely worthless, rife with mostly worthless “experts” and an obscene amount of ads. Thankfully, they’ve taken the first step towards pulling the plug on their worthless site by forcing you to register to view any threads that appear in Google. In Konqueror, when I hover over any answer, JavaScript is used to blur it so it is unreadable. In a more recent browser, I imagine the answers are completely hidden on page load. Exports Exchange, I raise my glass to your eventual extinction. Keep up the great work!
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19 Comments
Well worded Jason. I’ve published a blog on the decline of EE (http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,2000342184b,00.htm) and seing them going down lately even more.
The site has been ruined in first instance by owners spilling 5Mb without income going bankrupt and now it’s ruined by the new owners that are only interested in $$’s.
I’ve been suspended last December because I was concerned about the expert quality and the administrators didn’t took any action when another “expert” was calling me names.
I guess they’re one of the only sites having a “suspended-experts” site :-)
Cheers.
Nic;o)
I couldn’t agree more.
I wish the “experts” would just stick to posting actual solutions rather than random and often unrelated suggestions. Some seem to have only racked up points by posting the most irritating suggestion of all; “install the latest service pack…” or another favorite “update your graphics driver”. After more useless prattle, sometimes a real solution is posted.
Has anyone else found their business practices questionable? I signed up for a trial subscription, along with a 6 month followup. Not finding anything useful there, I canceled the plan on the day that the trial period ended. The company indicated that I canceled one day after the trial ended, and would be liable for the membership fee. When I asked them for the company president’s name, they gave me the run around, and refused to provide the info. I’m now disputing the charge with my credit card.
Has anyone else found any ethical problems with the way that they do business? How about any Better Business Bureau problems, or complaints with the Attorney General?
Bill
expert sex change…
let them use the domain for what it was intended
Bill, I cancelled on the last day of the trial and now they will not refund the $99.95 charge. They say I cancelled after the free trial, eventhough the email says the trial ended on 2/22/08. I cancelled on the 22nd. They said it really ended in the 21st. This company is going to fail.
You don’t have to register to view the results. They put all the answers at the very bottom of the page, unfettered. I assume this is because they were having trouble getting indexed by search engines.
I signed up for a 7 day trial and put the billing to monthly, in case i forgot to cancel, and found nothing useful at the site. Well, i never really found anything useful on the site so i was trying to cancel it, except they already billed me for a whole year, when i clearly selected the 1 month term.
I was searching for an answer to a specific question about error handling in VBA (yeah, I know, I deserve whatever I get for using VBA in the first place). Anyway, I googled and found exactly the right question on Experts Exchange (which sucks). I signed up for one month to see the answer, which was five words long — and Wrong! I immediately asked for a refund and was told no dice — because my credit card had been used to open a different account. What a bunch of losers.
WHat we need to do is start complaining to google.
I have written to
Thank you, joebob!
I never considered subscribing to expert-exchange since usually I found the answers to my questions
somewhere else. But after a day of failing to solve a problem that only e-e seemed to offer a solution for I was close to subscribing… When checking out their business I came across this blog and Alas! - you are right! The answers are on the page - just never bothered to scroll down :-D
To imagine I almost subscribed for such a crappy solution!
Oh well… I did subscribe.
http://www.experts-exchange.com/registerFree2.jsp
LMAO
Yep, sex change experts are digging their own grave. Pity actually, it once was a great site.
John & Jonno, just file a charge back with your CC provider. They’ll be stung with CB fees, so it will cost you ZIP and them the CB fees. Shove it right back up where it hurts.
Hardy Fucken Har Har Harrrrrrrr eh
They forced you to provide a credit card details when you sign up for a free trial and keep charging every month even you do not use their service after a trial. I am not sure if it happened only to me, but I sign up for a triasl and when I signed up I was really disappointed. However I could not find the option to cancel and I just found an information that they will cancel if I do not use the service. In contrary they kept charging my credit card every month. I cannot catch them on the phone and they do not answer my emails to cancel a subscription. My advice - avoid them and do not sign up for a free trial.
I signed up about a year ago, and instantly refunded my trial the same day. The quality of the site is poor, and no real answers are ever solved. I’m surprised that they want ‘experts’ to pay upon registering. Fuck them!
I always end up seeing their site which takes way too long to load. I’ve seen HD sites with a 10mb shockwave production completely download before this.
Anyway, you’re right, you can really just scroll down. I still however find all my issues answered with a simple google search while NOT using experts-exchange.
Wish I’d read these comments and the other 50,000 on the web about this company before I signed up. I could get better solutions from a rhesus monkey on codeine. Free trial, bah.
I did the same thing. I signed up for their trial offer and I canceled before it was over. Then they did their sneak attack and started charging my credit card for months before I noticed, even though my account did not have access. Right now I’m trying to get over 100.00 in charges back through my bank! What a pain in the butt! Do not sign up for their services, you have been warned!
Hey thanks. I was going to sign up with expert sex change, but am not after reading this post.
I can’t agree more with you jasonb.
COLLECTIVELY SUE THEIR ASSES OFF!
Well, something along these lines.
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