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Printable FunkyDissCo said: Mars23 said:
It was pretty spot on. Dear LotusFlow3r.com members,
We were saddened to hear today that the earliest adopters of LotusFlow3r.com were charged $77 for a repeat subscription to the website. We did not expect this action to occur automatically as we had not set up a recurring billing script in our code. After getting on the phone with the payment gateway Authorize.net, we found that the subscriptions were being renewed on their end. We immediately discontinued the recurring billing for all further subscriptions and we will be refunding those who have been charged. We are very sorry for the inconvenience and are working quickly to refund anyone who was charged for a second year. Please be aware that Prince himself had no hand in this and that the error was due to lack of thoroughness on our part. Sincerely, LotusFlow3r development team FunkyDissCo said: "Dear Lotusflow3r.com members,
we are very sorry to hear that there's a certain inconvenience with the site at the moment. We are working on it at the moment and hopefully can solve the issue during the next hours. Also we are aware of the fact that some of our members have been charged for year 2 without their approval. We will try to sort that out too and, if necessary, refund the charged sums. Regarding the site's content, we cannot make any specific promises at the moment. But there will be new content added over time. Sincerely, Lotusflow3r Support" Well, my guess wasn't THAT bad, was it?  | |
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squirrelgrease said: What a gigantic clusterfuck. I didn't even join, but I feel I deserve a refund just for being a fan.
lolz. I think the clue was in the domain name though, it wasn't as if that site was going to last beyond a year or two at best. Still, I feel for those folks who've been shafted and lost out, ol' boy needs to step up. | |
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I'm glad I didn't join Lotu$flower.com I wonder if he realise how bad this looks like. Welcome 2 The Dawn | |
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SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said: Mars23 said: I think the larger issue is that we being familiar with Prince and the way he does business KNEW this was coming. We've been sitting and waiting for it for months, all the while warning people that it would happen.
If we knew it and posted about it on here. Prince and his team knew it too. They just chose to do nothing about it until all hell broke loose. Prince, seriously, call me. We can work out a deal and you could have an online presence that WORKS. You could work with people that understand you and your fans would have a satisfying experience. THINK about it. THINK about it. If he got real he could have the most unbelievable kick ass online presence there ever could be. I would lay down my arms to make it happen. He only wants yes men though and that is his downfall.  seems that i was busy doing something close to nothing, but different than the day before   | |
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funkyhead said: dori said: We have always suffered in the 'Prince' world with lack of or at the least mis information on near enough everything be it new websites, cd releases, tours the list is endless.....
Things could be so different with just a little bit of information given at the correct time. Do I think that Prince was aware that this was going to happen...No I don't But when something is going to have your name written all over it then you do have to take responsibility when things go wrong. I truly believe that he probably had bigger plans for this site but somewhere along the line (as on so many other ocassions) he lost interest. Dori, having seen your inside threads on the great John Blackwell project you do perhaps have some connectiosn into the purple circle. I just wanted to ask you if P is actually in a 'good place' right now , are we getting worried over nothing or is he just not taking care of his life. To be honest I couldn't care less about the quality of his current music [it's all just opinion at the end of the day] but what I and many others on here care about is his personal well being. Any light you could shed on the situation?. [Edited 3/25/10 16:20pm] that is a really good question. seems that i was busy doing something close to nothing, but different than the day before | |
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FunkyDissCo said: Mars23 said:
Dear LotusFlow3r.com members,
We were saddened to hear today that the earliest adopters of LotusFlow3r.com were charged $77 for a repeat subscription to the website. We did not expect this action to occur automatically as we had not set up a recurring billing script in our code. After getting on the phone with the payment gateway Authorize.net, we found that the subscriptions were being renewed on their end. We immediately discontinued the recurring billing for all further subscriptions and we will be refunding those who have been charged. We are very sorry for the inconvenience and are working quickly to refund anyone who was charged for a second year. Please be aware that Prince himself had no hand in this and that the error was due to lack of thoroughness on our part. Sincerely, LotusFlow3r development team FunkyDissCo said: "Dear Lotusflow3r.com members,
we are very sorry to hear that there's a certain inconvenience with the site at the moment. We are working on it at the moment and hopefully can solve the issue during the next hours. Also we are aware of the fact that some of our members have been charged for year 2 without their approval. We will try to sort that out too and, if necessary, refund the charged sums. Regarding the site's content, we cannot make any specific promises at the moment. But there will be new content added over time. Sincerely, Lotusflow3r Support" Well, my guess wasn't THAT bad, was it?  X INFINITY! 2010: Healing the Wounds of the Past.... http://prince.org/msg/8/325740 | |
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Philly76 said: SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said: They are too busy looking for toilet paper to clean up the mess Yeah maybe...  seems that i was busy doing something close to nothing, but different than the day before | |
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bigd74 said: ^^That's what i want to know, is there a year 2, is EVERYONE being refunded, even those that did NOT mail sales@lotusflow3r.com to have their subscription cancelled?
 Me too, that what I wanna know, I did'nt cancel. | |
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rstokey2 said: Mars23 said: Thank you to orger Gav for passing this on and being a point of contact! Please be advised, no orger had any say in this and the message is merely being passed on.
Prince did have a hand in it. HE HIRED YOUR INCOMPETENT ASSES!!!!!  !!  RIP, mom. I will forever miss and love you. | |
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Reverend said:   OMG!!!!! RIP, mom. I will forever miss and love you. | |
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Genesia said: Wow! All that's left is just a black screen with the blue bubble.RIP, mom. I will forever miss and love you. | |
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Time for me to email sales@lotusflow3r.com, because I don't want to be automatically renewed for year two. Sorry, Prince, but as you once sang, "Eye Don't Trust U Anymore". RIP, mom. I will forever miss and love you. | |
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psychodelicide said: Time for me to email sales@lotusflow3r.com, because I don't want to be automatically renewed for year two. Sorry, Prince, but as you once sang, "Eye Don't Trust U Anymore".
Wow, that was harsh! | |
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FunkyDissCo said: psychodelicide said: Time for me to email sales@lotusflow3r.com, because I don't want to be automatically renewed for year two. Sorry, Prince, but as you once sang, "Eye Don't Trust U Anymore".
Wow, that was harsh!  Hey, I'm being honest, same as everybody else on here.  [Edited 3/25/10 17:25pm] RIP, mom. I will forever miss and love you. | |
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So glad I didn't sign up. Does anyone really feel they got $77 worth of stuff? Surely not. Ripped off once was bad enough, but twice...?
I hope you guys get your money back though.  Prince is an ass. Good thing for the GD forum or I likely wouldn't even be a casual fan of the man. MY COUSIN WORKS IN A PHARMACY AND SHE SAID THEY ENEMA'D PRANCE INTO OBLIVION WITH FENTONILS!! | |
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rstokey2 said: Mars23 said: Thank you to orger Gav for passing this on and being a point of contact! Please be advised, no orger had any say in this and the message is merely being passed on.
Prince did have a hand in it. HE HIRED YOUR INCOMPETENT ASSES!!!!! and true love lives on lollipops and crisps | |
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you can blame the web developers who designed and ran lotusflow3r.com if you want and leave Prince up on his paisley pedastal, but that's completely ignoring the fact that THIS IS NOT THE FIRST TIME SHIT LIKE THIS HAS HAPPENED!
this business model where he gets you to send him money up front and then he'll decide later what you get for it (Crystal Ball, NPGMC, lotu$failur3.com) has completely failed him. time and again. it's time to put it to bed. no, it's time to put it in a coffin 6 feet underground. it's time to just start supplying a product and charging a price for it when the buyer can have it on their hard drive or in their hands. this happens over and over with Prince. yes, maybe he has hired shady, incompetent people. but in every scenario where Prince fucks us over or fucks up his reputation or image or legendary status, you know what the common thread running through all of them is? PRINCE HIMSELF. and the other thread is us. and i said this on another thread, but i bears repeating. yes, WE should have learned by now. YES, WE should know better. we SHOULD NOT trust him ever again in these situations. but it goes both ways. there REALLY should be some kind of learning curve for HIM with this kind of bullshit when it keeps happening over and over. HOW MANY TIMES does he think he can this way of doing things can support itself? until he's ran off every last one of us? is there any artist past or present with such a contentious and hostile relationship with his fans? and i mean that coming from both sides. and if not, why do you think that is? why does he keep giving us these opportunities to tear him down? nobody's buying his music but us. can he really afford to jeopardize that any more? yes, he'd be fine without us. but who keeps his ass neck-deep in Max Factor and Ultralash? | |
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prb said: Philly76 said: That´s crap. Thats humour, have you heard of it? I thought it was funny. | |
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Look out for year 3!!
I wanna see a poll of how many people will sign up for any future prince websites?  | |
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2elijah said: True. Don't know who Gav is, but maybe Prince should hire him to keep us up-to-date on upcoming, Prince-related news/events. [Edited 3/25/10 16:53pm] LOL. I think there's more chance of those "10 unreleased albums" suddenly showing up on lotusflow3r for free. |
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moderator2elijah said: Gav said: My personal feeling is that this website was about an album and as there's something new in the works, then this is the end of LF.com sadly. Thanks Gav for passing on the information. Cool that they contacted you. [Edited 3/25/10 16:31pm] actually, no. nothing against Gav at all and I DO appreciate that someone has some info. HOWEVER. it's completely bogus that this is the way that official information from the Prince camp, especially something as important as this, is still disseminated via a fan, some douchebag blogger, or random chick #4398576 on youtube INSTEAD OF THE USELESS FUCKING WEBSITE IN QUESTION. that thing IS completely useless if it can't even be used to post an update with information like this. you have to seek out this thread on a completely un-related, unofficial fan site to get the answer to your questions. and it's been that way since literally day one. NO. MINUTE ONE. where the only decent support for navigating that useless piece of crap was right here on the org by users who trouble-shooted their own way through it. this entire disaster has ended exactly the same way it began. | |
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errant said: 2elijah said: Thanks Gav for passing on the information. Cool that they contacted you. [Edited 3/25/10 16:31pm] actually, no. nothing against Gav at all and I DO appreciate that someone has some info. HOWEVER. it's completely bogus that this is the way that official information from the Prince camp, especially something as important as this, is still disseminated via a fan, some douchebag blogger, or random chick #4398576 on youtube INSTEAD OF THE USELESS FUCKING WEBSITE IN QUESTION. that thing IS completely useless if it can't even be used to post an update with information like this. you have to seek out this thread on a completely un-related, unofficial fan site to get the answer to your questions. and it's been that way since literally day one. NO. MINUTE ONE. where the only decent support for navigating that useless piece of crap was right here on the org by users who trouble-shooted their own way through it. this entire disaster has ended exactly the same way it began.  Whoa....no seriously, tell me how you really feel. I was only thanking Gav for letting fans know what was up with the charge, from the msg he received from P's camp. [Edited 3/25/10 17:58pm] | |
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2elijah said: errant said: actually, no. nothing against Gav at all and I DO appreciate that someone has some info. HOWEVER. it's completely bogus that this is the way that official information from the Prince camp, especially something as important as this, is still disseminated via a fan, some douchebag blogger, or random chick #4398576 on youtube INSTEAD OF THE USELESS FUCKING WEBSITE IN QUESTION. that thing IS completely useless if it can't even be used to post an update with information like this. you have to seek out this thread on a completely un-related, unofficial fan site to get the answer to your questions. and it's been that way since literally day one. NO. MINUTE ONE. where the only decent support for navigating that useless piece of crap was right here on the org by users who trouble-shooted their own way through it. this entire disaster has ended exactly the same way it began. Hey, I was only thanking Gav for letting fans know what was up with the charge, from the msg he received from that camp. I appreciate it too. But I just don't think it's cool that they're doing things this way and always have. | |
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errant said: 2elijah said: Hey, I was only thanking Gav for letting fans know what was up with the charge, from the msg he received from that camp. I appreciate it too. But I just don't think it's cool that they're doing things this way and always have. Yeah, but damn!... ...your post was screaming! [Edited 3/25/10 18:26pm] | |
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errant said: you can blame the web developers who designed and ran lotusflow3r.com if you want and leave Prince up on his paisley pedastal, but that's completely ignoring the fact that THIS IS NOT THE FIRST TIME SHIT LIKE THIS HAS HAPPENED!
this business model where he gets you to send him money up front and then he'll decide later what you get for it (Crystal Ball, NPGMC, lotu$failur3.com) has completely failed him. time and again. it's time to put it to bed. no, it's time to put it in a coffin 6 feet underground. it's time to just start supplying a product and charging a price for it when the buyer can have it on their hard drive or in their hands. this happens over and over with Prince. yes, maybe he has hired shady, incompetent people. but in every scenario where Prince fucks us over or fucks up his reputation or image or legendary status, you know what the common thread running through all of them is? PRINCE HIMSELF. and the other thread is us. and i said this on another thread, but i bears repeating. yes, WE should have learned by now. YES, WE should know better. we SHOULD NOT trust him ever again in these situations. but it goes both ways. there REALLY should be some kind of learning curve for HIM with this kind of bullshit when it keeps happening over and over. HOW MANY TIMES does he think he can this way of doing things can support itself? until he's ran off every last one of us? is there any artist past or present with such a contentious and hostile relationship with his fans? and i mean that coming from both sides. and if not, why do you think that is? why does he keep giving us these opportunities to tear him down? nobody's buying his music but us. can he really afford to jeopardize that any more? yes, he'd be fine without us. but who keeps his ass neck-deep in Max Factor and Ultralash? | |
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2nd Year LotusFlow3r membership
Dear , It has come to our attention that some of our members have erroneously been charged for a second year of membership to Lotusflow3r.com. We understand that this must be very worrying, and are working right now to make sure that everyone has their money refunded as soon as possible. Sincere apologies for this inconvenience, and thank you for your support over the last year. Sincerely, LotusFlow3r.com Studies have shown the ass crack of the average Prince fan to be abnormally large. This explains the ease and frequency of their panties bunching up in it. |
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Mars23 said: Well shit. i just got mine, too.
2nd Year LotusFlow3r membership
Dear , It has come to our attention that some of our members have erroneously been charged for a second year of membership to Lotusflow3r.com. We understand that this must be very worrying, and are working right now to make sure that everyone has their money refunded as soon as possible. Sincere apologies for this inconvenience, and thank you for your support over the last year. Sincerely, LotusFlow3r.com | |
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3rd! | |
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Vendetta1 said: Mars23 said: Well shit. i just got mine, too.
Only 6 hours after it was posted on this unofficial website. Studies have shown the ass crack of the average Prince fan to be abnormally large. This explains the ease and frequency of their panties bunching up in it. |
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