To Me Delavo Was Just A Big, Big…Fiasco!
Filed Under (marketing, marketing tools) by admin on 27-05-2009
Tagged Under : delavo, john delavera, marketing, marketing tools
For about two weeks everybody, his mother, sister and neighborhood have promoted John Delavera’s Delavo ecommerce script. According to the millions of emails and thousands of blog posts, all you had to do to grab this software for free was join the notification list. Not only join: you had to activate your subscription by clicking on a link sent to you by Delavera’s autoresponder service.
If you’ve been online for some time you know by now that not a single one of the big shots gives anything away for free simply for giving, there’s always a catch, one-time-offer, upgrade offer, a s+h fee, subscription offer, and so on…It wouldn’t be any different with John Delavera’s “gift”…
Anyway, out of pure curiosity, I decided to signup for the notification list. That’s when the problems started: I tried once, I tried twice…and nothing happened! My clicking on the submit button ended nowhere! It looked like if they weren’t interested in my email address so nothing happened after I submitted it…so I gave up.
A couple of days later, I had another 50+ email messages on the same subject and I said to myself: “I’m going to give it a go again.” So there I went filling in the form. As previously, it went nowhere on my first try. I tried again and then I’ve got the “successfully signed up” message. I just had to wait for the email with the link to activate my subscription.
Now for the best part: Almost a week has elapsed and I never got an email with the confirmation link!
Now, before anyone tries to put the blame on me, let me clarify a few things:
1. My internet connection is excellent most of the time and my computers are connected 24/7;
2. Almost at the same time I couldn’t sign up at Delavera’s website I was able to sign up for two other offers on different websites;
3. I’ve received the confirmation emails from the other websites. I’ve checked my spam folders. No sign of Delavera’s email. Never.
That’s why I stated above that Delavo was just a big fiasco for me. And the reason is definitely at John Delavera’s end, not at mine. I’ve done what he’s asked me to do, he didn’t do his part of the deal.
BTW, this is not intended to be a rant, I’m simply registering the fact. Maybe a few people will learn something from it…
I agree with you.
There is always a catch.
People get used to that approach.
But… no catch with DELAVO.
You simply described your personal fiasco here.
Not sure how does this explain how
everybody else on the list started
using DELAVO. As you can undersand
computers do not make exceptions and
of course I don’t have personal issues
with you.:)
Cheer up.
Think positive.
Be good.
John Delavera
p.s. Read what John Reese said
- it’s on your sidebar:
“”It’s better to have the courage to try something and fail to not try at all.”
- John Reese”
John,
I didn’t take it personally and made quite clear this post wasn’t a rant.
But I’ll leave you with these two questions:
Do you sincerely believe I was the single, the chosen one this happened to?
Have you thought about how many other people may have gone through the same “fiasco” but you will never hear from them?
As regards John Reese’s quote, John, I’ve tried, I’ve tried…but your system failed me.
All the best. Peace be with you.
Ari
I too had an issue with Delavo, but it was getting the Install Files. It turned out I needed to clear my temp files and all was well. The day Delavo was delivered I opened a support ticket because I use Yahoo Mail (I know) and I couldn’t be sure I was getting the download link.
I wrote a post on my blog, “DELAVO! ECommerce Platform – Revolutionary, or Not?”
http://marketingsoftwaregroup.com/wp/2009/05/delavo-ecommerce-platform-revolutionary-or-not/
I think will show that the platform is well worth the dealing with a few problems getting this script.
Gary, thanks for your comment.
I’ve never questioned or had any doubt about the value of Delavo.
In fact, I simply registered the fact that it didn’t work for me and it showed that even a large launch by an Internet legend like John Delavera may have its flaws.
Fortunately, it had a happy end as you can read on today’s post…
Ari