I’ve had enough. Big dummy spit.

Gooday Kim,
know what you mean; has happened to me from time to time.... "I'll get back to you..." famous last words for some. Pity really, doesn't take much to call back and say thanks. Trouble is it starts to make an old bugger like me just a little cynical.
Hope you have a better day tomorrow....
regards

Kim...sadly a sign of the times...but shouldnt put you off trying. There are still heaps of good people who appreciate those that do offer their info for nothing in return.

I for one enjoy your posts and hope to be able to seek your advice if I ever head your way in the near future!

All the best

Matt.

Get over it. There are a lot of posters on this forum who never bother to say thanks.

Gday Kim
How did you go with the storm?
Murray

I know how you feel Kim.

I used to have an IT business. I would often get businesses ask me to design IT solutions for them and then quote for the implementation. Upon receipt of my hard work they would then go around to one of my competitors (usually someone who has been doing their IT work up until the time of my quote) and present them with the plan, the execution and the price it should be done for.

I would never hear from them and when I followed up the quote I would find out that the other mob implemented everything I had designed. So countless hours of hard work went down the crapper AND my competitor got the job. It made me so angry to think that I had been used like that.

Eventually I simply refused to quote for jobs from "prospective" customers unless they paid a refundable deposit - that is, they had to pay me to work up the quote and solution. If they got me to do the job the deposit was deducted from the quoted price, otherwise I kept the deposit. I didn't apply this rule to existing customers. That policy did have the desired affect, although I wasn't too sad to leave the IT industry behind me when something more lucrative came along.

Cheers

Russ.

I also often wonder about some posters.

They ask for advice, frequently without doing ANY research themselves.

Obviously cos a quick Google search often reveals the answers.

Why cant they do that themselves instead of asking someone to do it for them.

Most of us have only gained the knowledge by searching for it at some time or another.

Some replies have obviously required a fair bit of work on the reply.

The very least required is that a polite thank you after a few days would at

least let us know that the info has been read and PERHAPS appreciated.


Doesnt happen very often unfortunately so I sympathise with Kym and also the

dog if hes in that sort of a mood.

LOL

Kim
I have been on this site since 04' I don't say that much, but love to learn, enjoy your stories, and so much of your GPS advice.
Keep up the good posts for us who enjoy your posts & stories, if we loose those who have experience, who do we learn from.

Shucks!!!!!!!!!!!!

to everyone , for evrything...........thenkyou

Jeez Kim,

go sit in a corner and let the damn dog have a go on the forum ......... lol

Sorry to say that this has been a thought of mine for awhile ........... and commented on from time to time too.

A reflection on society .................. ask for everything and give nothing in return??

Cheers,
Wayne & Sally.

Hi Kim,
Know what you mean. Another thing is too, once you start to give, give, --- others wil take, take. They come to expect it then. Then when you have a dummy spit they wonder what the hell is up with you. Most times, a simple please and thankyou goes a long way.
Don't give up trying. I believe in karma. Thankyou for all past info. I always seem to learn something new each day off this great site. Sorry I have only replied to a couple of posts. Thankyou in advance for all future stories and advice. I always read all relevant info out loud to my family.
Sincerely,
Sally XX

To some extent it's an internet phenomenon. Everything is free or expected to be for free.
Then there is the issue of depersonalization. Most people her do not know each other personally, everyone is just a name so not real people, therefore it's much easier to just take take take.
This applies espcially to the people who just drift in and out.

G/Day Kim

In this world there are Take'ers, Watchers, and Do'ers, us Do'ers carry the Take'ers and Watchers on our backs, at least we can sleep at night with a Conscience knowing we don't owe any favours to people.

Chapter 1, Verse 1, Daza's outlook on life.

Cheers

Kim
Do not dispair there are lots of people that appreciate good advice and you may never hear from them but you can relax with the knowledge that you gave it unselfishly and with a dedication to help people with what you know.

In the last two days I have had two responses out of the blue from people one by phone and one by email and the email one asked about a post in March 2009 that I had made so some people do appreciate things.

I also in my spare time do family research and I have one of the largest private data bases in Australia with over 84000 individuals.

I readily gave out information from my research and then later found it up on someone elses tree or information.

I now restrict that information to only people that can be possitively linked by credible fact.

This does not stop me from helping someone to get ahead with there research but Im more selective than in the past.

Keep up the good work you are appreciated by people that care and enjoy what you produce.

Ian

G'day Kim

We have never traded forum responses ~ ever, but some how I feel compelled in a sense to express my thoughts on your very frustrations and seeing there are many other responses to your forum post, there is a lot of disappointment out there.

Try running a tourism business from a town in the middle of some of the most precious and visually stunning country in Australia ~ perhaps the world.

Spend ten (10) years of time , energy and passion not to mention finances in growing and promoting your business and the region, to find the very people who ask for and receive information that is not generally available to the travelling public, from the internet or even from the local visitor centre(s) then have these information thieves use the freely given info to conduct their very own 4wd tours, in what I like to call my back yard. It's a total p~ss off at the time but, just maybe the next information seeker will appreciate what you do for them ~ just maybe.

Now it's time for me to wander off into my wilderness ~ alone, maybe !!

Thanks to all the other disappointed people out there who have shared their experiences and thank you Kim for raising the post.

Regards :

Oh Kim while your there any chance you can help me out??

Sorry mate couldn't resist. Yep know what you mean happens all the time unfortunately. This Forum isn't unique there.

Often you don't even get a thanks.

But on the upside this forum also provides so much unsolicited advice and assistance, and people offering to send you stuff. So it ain't all that bad.

So thanks Kev.

Try working as a travel agent where I have spent thousands and thousands of my own dollars on holidays doing research to use at my work. I work out very personalised quotes and give lots of details only for all my information and prices to be taken to usually a Flight Centre where they knock of $50 from the price and the client booked.

Then they even have the hide to email me back to tell me that is what they have done but "by the way my agent didnt know about ..... can you advise??" . Talk about the cheek of them.

You dont go and ask your doctor or hairdresser for ideas and a quote to then go shopping around for who can do the job the cheapest so why do some people insist on doing it for my service related industry??

Kim,

I prescribe a Bex and a good lie down.

Cheers

Gday Kim,

I dont know how to break this to you, so Ill try to be gentle......
I wrote the question 18 years ago!!!!!!
Im sorry I didnt reply earlier but I actually forgot the question!.....but after waiting 17 years ,364 days I thought you werent going to answer?
And now you get the heebies cause I didnt say thanks because my puter was down yesterday...........bloody hell!!!!!

Sorry....what was the question again????...I mean the answer????

Ohhhh...that right.....I was going to tell you something!

Are you sure we havent got Altzei....................


What was I saying?

Anyway , the question and the answer isnt the issue...the issue is...I cant remember the bloody question?????

LOL
Cheers
Hairy

LOL

LOL

Did I Say LOL?

Come for a drive ya grumpy ol bastard

Kim,
At the end of the day it's your choice
you say: "Then await a *promised response* which is not forth coming"
which I admit I don't understand the "promised response" part of your statement
obviously if the response is "promised" it isn't good enough?

You will now have more free time to do the things you really enjoy.

If you feel You've "had enough and want to spit the dummy" that's your choice, so I wish you well in the future :)

Maîneÿ . . .