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Up for Sale

Monday, July 20th, 2009

After much deliberation - and soul searching - I have decided to put Birthday Bonus Club up for sale.

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June Update

Monday, June 1st, 2009

Firstly, my apologies for the long silence. We have been extremely busy “behind the scenes” and this is the first opprotunity I have had to update everyone.

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Why no PayPal

Wednesday, April 8th, 2009

Just once - and only once - I shall put into print the reasons for NOT using PayPal

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    Verifiction is the Wrong Word!

    Friday, April 3rd, 2009

    Just a quick word about the use of the word “verification” in relation to AlertPay in my earlier post.

    Our AlertPay “verification” has nothing whatsoever to do with AlertPay’s need for verification of your identity and address!

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    March 31 - China Day

    Wednesday, March 18th, 2009

    It seems like Chinese people only have Birthdays on March 31- ‘cos, all of a sudden we have 72 Chinese folk who expect to get their Birthday Bonus in the next two weeks!

    Sorry guys - it doesn’t work that way - so - here’s a special message to you all

    Happy Birthday !

    ..Oh - and a special gift to you all - BYE BYE! (you have been deleted!)

    Those concerned :

    Bajiao, yyongtao, yujiu, jiba, liye, liya, lei, linya, xusan, aibazu, yuan, bayu, jibazi, mei, hui, woma, wbenlai, deren, shiba, luckuio, wode, kaizi, nan, ming, tian, yue, zhang, tuibu, aishi, zhenhao, jiayu, gege, woshi, zhi, zhaofeng, dashi, shuohua, yezhi, shiduo, bale, shunft

    Have a Great Day!

    AlertPay Problem

    Monday, March 9th, 2009

    Several people have mentioned that AlertPay have a problem in accepting MasterCard and Visa credit cards - there is a full description at blog.alertpay.com

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    NOT our Newsletter

    Saturday, March 7th, 2009

    Yesterday, you probably received an email purporting to be a newsletter from us - and it was completely empty. Many of you responded to the email and were informed that you had been removed from our mailing list.

    The “newsletter” was initiated by a persistent hacker who managed to find the script that we use for sending real newsletters and the unhappy result was that you received a confusing email.

    The current situation is as follows :

    • The hacker - a client of IRides.com - has been blocked
    • The newsletter script has been removed
    • An email has been sent to all who think they have removed themselves to reassure them

    This will not happen again and I must apologise for this incident

    Advertising is LIVE!

    Monday, February 23rd, 2009

    As of today - we are in a position to accept advertising from our Members (I hope to be able to offer similar service to non-members later this week :-)

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    February Update

    Wednesday, February 4th, 2009

    Where does a year go when you’re having fun :-)

    January 2009 has come and gone and I’m really happy with the results that we achieved :

    • Half a million visitors
    • 1.45 million page views
    • Over 7,000 members
    • An average of 18,000 visits daily and 46,000 page views daily
    • Over 100 Birthday requests sent

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    All About AlertPay

    Wednesday, January 28th, 2009

    As you will all know, our Birthday Requests are handled by

    ..and, to get the best from Birthday Bonus Club your Account needs to be set up correctly!

    1. You must set up your AlertPay Account before your Birthday - otherwise no-one will be able to pay you :-(
    2. Make sure that your account is either Personal Pro or Business. Otherwise, you will not be able to accept credit card payments.
    3. Be sure to confirm your email address - your Account is not active until you do so!
    4. Make sure that your Account is not in Test Mode - see below
    5. As soon as you possibly can - send your Verification Documents to AlertPay - this is a legal requirement for AlertPay and you don’t want your funds being withheld because you are not verified!

    Test Mode

    As far as I can see, Test Mode is disabled by default - but, to be sure, please do the following:

    1. Login to your AlertPay Account
    2. Click on Business Tools then on IPN Setup - bottom LH corner.
    3. Enter your PIN and click on Access
    4. The next page shows your Test Mode status - if this is Disabled there is nothing more to do. Otherwise, select Disabled and click on Update - done! :-)

    Confirming Your Payments

    When you have made a donation to another member’s Birthday, you will receive a Confirmation Email from AlertPay. As soon as you receive it - please forward the full email to the email address shown in your Birthday Request.

    Please note that the confirmation email address is handled by a script whose job is to convert the email into a confirmed request - it cannot answer queries about the Birthday Request itself. If you have queries, please route them through Contact.

    We check uncleared confirmation emails once or twice each day; so - if there is anything unusual about the email, it may take 24 hours or more to clear since it must be handled manually.