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Re: Max Levchin: Will virtual goods bring Slide profitability next year?

Sia — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 00:37:06 -0000

spp.com, SuperPoke Pets,....The gist of the matter is simple. Slide Inc. cares not for the user, cares not for the customer. Slide Inc. cares about it's "Bottom Line".

Slide Inc. ? Here is the "Bottom Line": Continue down the path you have set forth, and SPP will end up indeed on the "Bottom".

Investors, be forewarned.

Re: Max Levchin: Will virtual goods bring Slide profitability next year?

CAROL — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 22:43:18 -0000

SPP COULD CARE LESS ABOUT THE PEOPLE THEY LIE CHEAT EVERYONE MANY MANY PEOPLE ARE LEAVING AND FOR THE PAST FEW MONTHS THEY BEEN HARPING ON OUR TRAINING PROGRAM THEY KEEP TRYING TO TAKE IT FROM US MANY 1000 FIGHT IT WELL TODAY VIC TOOK AND LOWERED OUR FREE COINS FOR TRAINING PEOPLE ARE SO ANGRY!!! NO ONE CAN UNDERSTAND WHY THEY HARP ON IT WANT TO TAKE IT AWAY BECAUSE THEY ARE NOT LOSING ANYTHING ITS FREE COINS AND PEOPLE RUN TRAINING PROGRAM FOR NEW PEOPLE AND THEY ALSO OFFER NEW PEOPLE TO ADOPT A TRAINEE ALL SET WITH BADGES AND COINS WAY BETTER THAT TO ADOPT AND START WITH NOTHING AT ALL.NEW PEOPLE CAN;T BUY ANY THING CAUSE THE PRICE IS SO HIGH TO START WITH THEY GET ONE ITEM AND ARE BROKE AND THATS JUST USING FREE COINS AND THE GOLD ITEMS WHO CAN AFFORD THEM PRICES!
SPP ALSO RUNS MANY OTHER GAMES LIKE SPP RANCH AND AFEW OTHERS JUST GO CHECK OUT THE SPP FORUM SEE WHAT PEOPLE ARE POSTING AND NO ONE AT SLIDE LISTEN TO THEM AT ALL THEY COULD CARE LESS...ITS REALL SAD:::http://superpokepets.com/sp...

Re: Max Levchin: Will virtual goods bring Slide profitability next year?

Roxeli — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 22:18:46 -0000

Slide really has failed their customers and knowingly continues to do so. Just to cite one example, how about that 71 year old retired woman on a fixed income who accidentally bought 180.00 in gold items and now Slide refuses to credit her? Slide sneakily made it easy for customer's to accidentally make gold purchases and then they don't refund the money. Outrageous. There are countless other similar complaints including some regarding the breach of security.

Re: Max Levchin: Will virtual goods bring Slide profitability next year?

Me Myself — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 03:10:18 -0000

If anyone wants to see how well Slides players are taken care of then read the SPP.COM forum.
Every day more posts are turned out on topics from people losing money, being hacked, getting double charged for items and are unable to get the matter taken care of by Slide. Whether Levchin is aware of this is unknown but it is obvious that Slide is spending more time working on making its profit and less on taking care of its customer base. More players are leaving everyday and the price of gold keeps going up.

Also, as far as SuperPoke pets goes, There is no way of earning gold. While they have recently started to give 5 gold to every new player there is nothing in the game you can buy for 5 gold. There are sometimes Mystery boxes that cost 10 gold and user created items that where part of a contest that sold for anywhere between 8 to 15 gold when they where released. Those rare items aside, most gold item that are sold cost anywhere between 25-500 gold. A far amount of players are now scared of buying gold for fear of having their account hacked and losing the items they paid money for. Accounts that do get hacked seldom, if ever, see those items again due to the fact that the hacker can "gift" the items to their account. Since Slides has stated that when it shows items as gifted they can not refund or re-give the item to the player that lost it.

Slide have failed their costumers in many ways and continue to do so.

Re: Max Levchin: Will virtual goods bring Slide profitability next year?

Debi — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 22:02:26 -0000

LOL SPP is a joke. I have it and am now selling all my stuff coz its always messed up. Things dont work right. It costs way to much. They take the fun stuff from us and give us stuff we hate. Max really needs to start hearing when all the people are say or this is going to go down the tube and he will loos on this app. Im not the only one leaving and selling stuff. Many many others are also. Max dont give a rats behind about the people why pay his bills. He said we were all just socer moms and to top it off he had to go and make a ugle plushie of a socer mom. To me thats him makeing fun of the people who put money in his pocket and I havent did that in a long time nor will I ever. SPP is a joke and so are the people who run it

Re: Max Levchin: Will virtual goods bring Slide profitability next year?

ammosov — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 06:14:26 -0000

In PayPal, the top entrepreneur was Thiel, a banker. There were other co's that promised to spend themselves out to profits - like Vonage. Spending does not earn you customers - products do.

Re: Max Levchin: Will virtual goods bring Slide profitability next year?

Matt Cordova — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:42:01 -0000

Oh word? that's exactly what they said about him + paypal. They were losing tons of cash, raised huge cash blah blah blah. The guy and his team made it work. Don't underestimate a good entrepreneur especially one like Max.

Re: Max Levchin: Will virtual goods bring Slide profitability next year?

Morty — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:51:01 -0000

what a crock of crap...his revs are maybe $3M on a $550M valuation. the VCs wanna hang him. facebook has no patience with his business.....this is gonna go down as a big a-s crater.