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Old April 27th, 2006, 02:32 PM
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Levi, as you can see in both of my personal replies to you, I was very polite and very quick to respond.

As I also said, in a previous email, I had not received an email from you before then. I do not know what address you sent to before hand, but whatever it was, it was not a legitimate email address.

If all was taken care of, why the need for the harsh words? I take my work very personal and do everything I can to help anyone that contacts me. I honestly feel bad when someone is angry because of something related to us. I don't know what else to say here... Once again, I apologize if there was something that I did to upset you.

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Brad, I never did say you where not impolite, unlike yourself you bleatingly lied while trying to save your face on this forums by saying I said some colorful words and used a system that I have never used.

Saying my email is not valid is also a understatement as you where communication with me on that email after the BBB got in contact with you.

After the BBB got in contact with you where very quick to respond, but before that time you never did.

I will be more then happy to post all email to and from your email address to show complete records along with IP’s and time stamps, and I have people that can back me up one what I have said here as well.

I understand your trying to cover your public image, but its best for you to just say that you messed up, and that it has been taken care of.

As you can see from the point that this thread started to the point where I ended it, I never got hostile about it, and when the problem was fixed I let everyone know.

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DATE: 12/27/2005 3:41 PM

Hi Brad,

My PC bit the dust last week and I had to get a new one. When I attempted to install my copy of SEO Elite it told me that I has already registered, and that I needed to contacted you all about it.

Account email is [Remove for privacy]

Thanks,
Levi


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I emailed you all a couple days ago, maybe last week about this and no one got back to me. In the last week my PC crashed so I had to get a new PC and we could not get my old to work. With that I moved all my software, including SEO Elite. When I went to install it it told me I could not as I already had it registered to another computer, etc. my email for my paid version is [Remove for privacy], and I need you all to release the account so that I can move install it on this computer.

Levi Thornton
MFP LLC


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DATE: 2/13/2006 12:48 PM
Hello Brad,

I am righting you because of my SEO Elite subscription is not working.

My receipt is -------- from ClickBank.

The system is telling me to contacted you all because my Machine ID and email admin@madfrogproductions.com is already in the system and it will not let me start the program.

Please take the time to respond as you have not responded to my last request about this problem over 3 months ago.

Levi Thornton
MFP LLC


The BBB emails started on 3/6/2006 8:54 PM


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Old April 27th, 2006, 03:37 PM
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Hi Levi, I completely understand your point of view. I would be very angry if I sent an email for 3 months with no reply. Can you please look back at your history of "sent" emails that were never responded to? And check the "to" email address. I honestly have a feeling it was sent to an account that does not exist. Possibly "info@seoelite.com" which is an autoresponder stating that the account was closed because of receiving too much junk mail. And then listed was the new contact information. Could that be what happened?

The reason you received replies from me after the BBB complaint was because I initiated the email from my email address which does exist.

I think this whole ordeal is a big misunderstanding. I apologize for posting anything public, as that was definitely not my intention to stir any bitterness.

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Old April 28th, 2006, 08:39 AM
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You are correct about that it is the info at seoelite.com, but I also checked for a auto response and I did not get any. I only have 3 emails from you all, and 10 emails I sent you all in the time that I have had the program.

As far as my concern the problem was fixed back when I gave the BBB a call, so Im satisfied as noted before. Even with the no response or bad emails or whatever the problem was that we could not get the communication going it has been fixed.

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I think this whole ordeal is a big misunderstanding. I apologize for posting anything public, as that was definitely not my intention to stir any bitterness.

Brad


Brad some devils advocate advice from one that knows...

Right, wrong, or indifferent, the customer is what keeps you in business.

Along with SEO I co-developed a retail pearl jewelry website.

At Xmas - a customer bought a necklace for his wife, after Christmas he wanted to return it [no idea why - that isn't the point]... for 5 weeks they used the RMA formmail and got no response... [why no idea - possibly because they didn't but that isn't the point]

My first indication that something was awry was the BBB report...

Again - Right, wrong, or indifferent, the customer is what keeps you in business... my respond to this situation was:

1. full refund

2. keep the product

3. paid reservations for 2 to an elegant local restaurant.

All of this was also sent to BBB including receipts...

Personally - I think the customers first email was to the BBB since the RMA formmail worked "before, during, and after" this customer used it over the "suggested 5 weeks... professionally though that does not matter... Right, wrong, or indifferent, the customer is what keeps you in business...

and one dissatisfied customer can have you doing 100 X more damage control which is more costly than what I paid to ensure they were satisfied.

Be that as it may - "pearl jewelry is lucrative" - intangible software [one design low reproduction cost - sell to many at high margin] is moreso... a wise man turns "disadvantage into advantage".

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Hmmm....interesting thread.

I happen to have come across the same issue, old computer crashed, need SEO Elite on new computer.

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cannot contact SEO Elite

After purchasing SEO Elite on their website, the site simply closed without giving me any information. I don't have the software, nor do I know how to get it. I tried to reply to the emails I have been getting, but they just kick out an auto response that tells me to go to the help site, which is useless because I don't have the information needed to gain access to the site. After searching in vane for a way to contact SEO Elite, here I am, hoping I will get someone to help me resolve this issue.

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Hello "Levi". A quick update on your situation...

1. Our support desk sent you many different replies to your initial ticket, which you replied with a very friendly, and I quote, "F#@K You". This happened several times. We have the tickets referenced for future use if you would like me to display the conversations you had with our support team.

2. I contacted you within 5 minutes of every email sent directly to me. You then repsonded with. "I am filing a claim with the BBB". It appears your comment about the "BBB already looking into him" came directly from something you submitted. I spoke with a representative from the BBB via the telephone about you, and she "laughed" and stated that there will be cases like this and to not worry about it and/or take it personal. She then proceeded to close the case immediately. I emailed you AND issued you a full refund LONG before you stated you had filed a BBB claim. Your comment regarding that is completely inaccurate.

3. I offered to refund your purchase... Yet, still left your software active because of any trouble you may have had...
(Side note: Upon purchase, you were emailed all contact information...)

4. We offer 24 hour support and quickly respond to any user issues. (http://www.bryxensoftware.com/support/), which can be accessed via the seoelite.com website, and the "Welcome email" you received upon purchase.)

On top of that, I worked with you directly for 24 hours and replied to all of your emails within minutes to clear up any problems you may have had.

I find this entire situation very strange. I'm sorry you were not satisfied, but unfortunately there is nothing more we can do. Best of luck with your software venture.

Brad
P.S. It would also be good to note that you contacted us on a weekend, of which our office hours are closed... yet, I still responded via email myself.

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hmmm... post here 9 more times and then you can PM callenb.

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Hello, when you visit our support center, you must click the button on the top left that allows you to "create an account".

Once you create and account, you may
1. submit support tickets
2. search through our "frequently asked questions"
3. respond to previous tickets

Hope that helps.


P.S. the support center is located here: http://www.bryxensoftware.com/support/

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Bryxen Software no longer in business?

Having looked up Bryxen Software on the BBB web site (http://search.bbb.org/), here is what it says as of July 19, 2006:
"According to information in the Bureau files, it appears that the company is no longer in business. The phone numbers the Bureau had for this company are disconnected, and directory assistance does not have a listing for this company. The Bureau's mail to this company has been returned as undeliverable. If you have an unresolved dispute with this company you may wish to seek legal advice."

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... yet another reason why the BBB isn't the best place to reference a business. If an office moves, their records are very dated and, in my opinion, they do a very bad job with updating their records. We've moved into a new and improved office in late May, 06, and the message you probably read is their basic "template" message when a company's information cannot be found OR has been changed.

A Google search on the BBB brings up some major faults of the BBB. One of which was this article:
http://www.mazu.com/scams/bbb.php

Personally, I have nothing against the BBB, but often times consumers are misled because of lack of information about the organization itself.

It's funny how a simple forum thread can go into so many directions.

Lesson learned: If you read a forum thread and you want to better explain a situation, it's usually best to just ignore it and not get involved. Otherwise, as you can see, the thread will get very skewed and out of hand.

Our business is most definitely alive and kicking. As I mentioned above, should you need support regarding any of our products, please submit a support ticket and you should be answered within 24 hours:

http://www.bryxensoftware.com/support/

Thank you

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I didn't realize you were so old brad.

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Damn You Brad!!!

I can't get a hold of him either and I used the support forum and the email. Anybody have a phone number for him. It seems the number in his whois info is disconnected. You'd think there'd be an easy solution for moving your SEO Elite from one computer to another, it has to happen at least 3 times a week.
Brad, maybe you should make a members section where we can login and set our own computer IDs. Just a thought.
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Is Seo Elite Obsolete Now?

Hello im new to this forum and was wondering if seo elite is even still useful as ive read the sales page and almost none of the keywords stated in peoples testimonials websites have a page one ranking in fact i cant even find their website for their chosen keywords????? just wondering if its still worth getting thanks any help would be appreciated!

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Hello im new to this forum and was wondering if seo elite is even still useful as ive read the sales page and almost none of the keywords stated in peoples testimonials websites have a page one ranking in fact i cant even find their website for their chosen keywords????? just wondering if its still worth getting thanks any help would be appreciated!


Devil's Advocate...

First though my disclaimer... I never used this product -- frankly my skills are far superior.

No tool or tutorial will ever generate returns or results... you do.

I would say SEO Elite is not some magic bullet that you buy and will forever rank you without any ounce of effort on your part.

Search engines change the way they do things regularly and a tool nor a tutorial can predict nor pre-date such changes.

I professionally hand-trained 24 merchants in SEO, 21 QUIT the "knowledge to learn" was easy, the practice of using that knowledge was (for lack of better words) sucked on their part... they desired a magic bullet.

I would guess that SEO Elite is a fair place to start... but it cannot do all the work for you.

So in light of your noted (likely dated testimonials) a purchase of $167.00 USD isn't going to be a short cut to unprecedented returns unless you intend to dedicate to the tasks you MUST dedicate to.

I can't speak to the claims of testaments but I can speak from a qualified SEO vantagepoint that charged $5K/month/website - it's alot of analysis & work... so the program can 'likely' get you focused on what to do that works... but it certainly can't make you do it.

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