Hi all.
I have been downed by the flue since about ten days, but finally it is going a bit better now.
We have done some "market research" and called in the help of friends, collegues, some family members and people from our neighbourhoods - computer savy or not.
They were explained how faucets work, and asked if they wanted to visit the faucets on our list four times in one week with at least 12 hours in between visits.
The conclusion is: Due to too many crappy faucets, and the way the faucets are presented, our faucet list is shit.
This is what we now also think after hearing and reading our testers findings - it is our honest opinion: we can't ignore 35 - 40 people's opinions and findings.
Especially if their findings are more or less all the same.
A few complaints our testers consitently noted down:
- Very hard to claim a reward - it takes way too many attempts to figure it out.
- Many faucets are dry the next day.
- Faucets paying less then promised.
- Where is the claim button?
- Etc.
This annoyed our testers really bad and more or less made them not want to go through the list further, and / or not even use the list at all.
Also, after hitting two or three crappy faucets they were sick of it.
Every problem / finding noted was easily reproduced by visiting the faucets they visited, and the facts don't lie.
I can only assume that the people from bitcointalk who visited it regularly at first, got annoyed by a few of those, or even many of those same things
and therefore do not use our faucet list anymore. We can't blame you.
Our list is also very hard to maintain like it is now, even with four people. So it is needless to say it requires a different approach.
Let me get a bit into details for highpayfaucets.r4u.nl V2 plans:
- The new list will contain categorized faucets; categorized by reward hight and faucet stability.
- The new list will contain only honest and user friendly faucets. We weren't selective enough and have seen very shady things on some faucets. To name a few:
- Ads covering textbox for wallet address, ads covering the claim button, and even ads covering both.
- Crappola anti-bot: "Drag dots into box" where the dots are white and placed on top of white ads. (Which we find unfair play / borderline scam.)
- Too long waiting time before the button appears, if at all.
- Etc.
Mind you, we are bitcoin n00bs and faucet n00bs. Again, i think this was a good lesson to have learnt.
We expect that V2 will be published in about two weeks. We will come back strong with a somewhat smaller, but improved list.
Meanwhile we will keep struggling to update once a day like before with highpayfaucets.r4u.nl V1 to make sure the list remains usable for anyone who does still use it.
I will probably not post untill we have something new and good to show you all, unless a response from me in the thread is required.
Obviously, if someone has some pointers regarding improvement, comments, complaints or whatever, we will be happy to receive those.
I would like to thank my friend / collegue who posted as (not)LS.
I would also like to thank Dennis, who is my brother.
Lastly, maybe someone finds this interesting:
My brother is chasing the bambitcoin owner(s). He promised to look into it, and this kind of stuff is what he lives for.
It has a sister site - called something like "boombitcoin".
the ISP is supposed to be in russia, server in south america, but that same IP get's used by a certain company which resides in NL and / or USA. (WHAT!?)
The owner(s) of the sites uses WHOISprotect (or something?) to hide behind. There is no owner name, just some dodgy email address of which you will never get an answer.
All contact details have been deleted on purpose. And there is much more shady about it...
He has contacted bee-ads to, like adSense, disallow them from using their ad-channels to gain revenue.
Everyone having something to do with them - like providing server space, or the leased IP has been contacted.
Also the company that is legit, and according to some whois records is using that same IP has been contacted.
My brother say now we wait for a bit. If nothing happens then we can go at them harder.
In the near future he will make himself an account on bitcointalk, and then anyone can contact him regarding this problem.
That's it for now.
LS.
