INTERMITTENT SITE OUTAGES
I wanted to quickly address the outages we’ve been experiencing here and there lately. To put it simply, we’ve seen a pretty big spike in traffic over the last 2 weeks that we basically weren’t 100% prepared for. However, our staff has been working around the clock and we have spared no expense to address the issue as quickly as humanly possible.
Please hang tight and we’ll have the fast, efficient and reliable backpage you’ve all grown to know and love back and better than ever in no time!
As a result of the intermittent outages, we have received what could quite possibly be considered the most angry email that has ever been sent to support@backpage.com. Hopefully the rest of you don’t feel the same way:
To Backpage.com Support
On May 19, 2009, at 11:13 AM Anthony ________ Wrote:
> Hello Backpage,
>
> What the fucking fuck is going on with this god damned site? I go on
> here to sell a lamp and its impossible for me to do that, sell a
> simple fucking lamp. On Craiglist I can sell 100 lamps with no
> problem at all. What the hell is so hard about running a fucking
> website? I run my own Facebook and MySpace pages perfectly fine and
> I have my own HTML codes that make my profile look fuckin sick and
> you can’t manage to run a simple site where people sell bullshit?!
> Do you need me to send a pack of retards there to work on the site
> to get it fixed because I bet a pack of wild retards could do a
> better job at maintaining a website than the asswads you currently
> have there. I understand maybe you’re seeing a spike in traffic
> lately but why would that cause your site to go in the shitter and
> for users to no longer access the site at all? Its bullfuck if you
> ask me. How am I supposed to sell my god damn lamps?! And what if I
> had some shit I needed to buy? I could be sitting there eating
> cereal and my table could break and it would spill the cereal all
> over the floor and I would think OH SHIT I NEED A NEW TABLE… WELL
> I HOPE BACKPAGE ISN’T HAVE A SPIKE IN TRAFFIC TODAY OR ELSE I WON’T
> BE ABLE TO DO JACK FUCK ON THAT SITE SINCE IT CRASHES AFTER 10
> VISITORS. Fucks sake man. And I bet I wouldn’t be the only person in
> need of an immediate table, or other appliance. All I ask if for you
> to get your ass together and get this fuck shit of a site working
> properly so I can continue selling lamps or buying worthless fuck
> that just clutters up my house. Or else I will have to go to that
> other shithole site Cragisass. Thanks.
Wow!
- Carl
May 20th, 2009 at 8:38 am
Anthony,
I understand that you were having a bad day with the outages;
however things do happen. I find it appalling that you could write such language when the dictionary is full of so many “more” words that you could have used. I find that the amount of energy that you expelled, you could have used it to do something good.
The next time you have a complaint, follow it up with a solution!!
May 23rd, 2009 at 12:12 am
I don’t know, I can kind of understand this guys frustration, this site is near useless.
Take a look in the motorcycle section, it’s loaded with ads from car dealers like Mossy…not even one motorcycle is listed.
Want a suggestion, try only allowing motorcycles to be posted in the motorcycles section.
May 23rd, 2009 at 11:45 am
That guy needs to get a life…. and take that lamp and shove it up his butt. I cant see how someone that uses a free service, can be soooooo abusive… when its having problems…. At my site dontlookanyfurther.com we look at that type of person as a fair weather visitor and really dont welcome the attitude. Carl keep doing your thing.
Anthony
Dontlookanyfurther.com
June 2nd, 2009 at 2:33 pm
Every site has outages. It is perfectly understandable.
June 4th, 2009 at 11:42 am
I feel that Backpage shouldn’t charge as much as they do in the escort category because ya’ll aren’t getting nearly as much hits as Craigslist, that’s a fact, according to http://www.Alexa.com! Backpage right now is basically competing with Craigslist. If you set the price to $5 per post like it is advertised in Atlanta instead of charging us 3 times the price when it’s time to pay with my credit card. Backpage you are ripping people off. If you ask me this site is a rip off in certain ways.
June 4th, 2009 at 12:14 pm
This guy reminds me of the homeless dude I overheard complaining that there’s no meat in the free food the city was giving him. Uh….what part of FREE do you not understand?
But I love a good rage. Big knuclkehad after my own heart!
June 10th, 2009 at 10:40 pm
Oh my god, this email made me laugh so hard! WOW! It’s amazing the stuff that people can come up with when they are frustrated.
June 12th, 2009 at 12:44 pm
> I run my own Facebook and MySpace pages perfectly fine and
> I have my own HTML codes
Shows that teen is as dumb as he sounds. Modding FB or MS pages is not the same as running a big server for a website like backpage. Maybe he should go to school and learn something, starting with English.
Backpage is FREE, so you shouldn’t complain. My only gripe is we need a better way to remove spam and overposted ads. The current method doesn’t do anything as most people don’t bother reporting it.
June 12th, 2009 at 1:13 pm
No wonder you can’t sell anything. Your attitude is creating a force field.
Nobody wants to deal with you. You attract what you are. Misery.
June 17th, 2009 at 2:54 pm
isn’t there 100’s of other sites he can post in why get mad at one of them you want to sell you s fast you need to post it in diferent spots morron, i don’t understand people can be so ignorant about shit like this any ways visit my site webuycarstrucks.com i’m working on something to do just that free directory free classifeds and we buy vehicles ourself from public .
June 23rd, 2009 at 11:53 am
Ha ha ha! Wow is right. That really gave me a good laugh, thanks for posting that!
July 1st, 2009 at 2:10 pm
I think the services you offer, both free and paid, are great. Your site gives me a boost in traffic both from your site _and_ from the way your site helps me to boost my search engine rankings. (So it seems.) Thanks for the hard work, guys!
July 23rd, 2009 at 6:35 am
WOW!!!! OMG!!! You kiss your mother with that mouth? LOL!
Really, dude….get some help…I can see your veins bulging from here…Good luck with your lamp. You light up my life!
September 12th, 2009 at 4:16 pm
WOW!!!! OMG!!!!!! NONE OF YOU FUCKER ‘S GET IT DO U ?
I”LL BET YOU JUST LOVE FUCKN FLICKER.COM
HOPE U FOLKS CRACK YOUR SELVES WELL UP OFTEN….NIMDS ARE ……I NEED A LAMP FOR YOUR TR4UCK…ALSO…AND BY THE WAY…