Were you fooled by our April Fool`s joke?

[Baldrick]

No..

[EvilWizardGlick]

It generated a whole thread titled

Prepare for a flood of new members!

At
http://www.techolio.com/forums/phpBB2/viewforum.php?f=7&sid=9fc98c3f81dd29a32b3f363baaeebc91
And

I surfed over to www.dvdrhelp.com this morning and noticed that they are now charging a $20 per year subscription to view their site. Hopefully this is an April Fools joke to get some much needed donations, but I doubt it.

They just shot themselves in the foot. My guess is that their user base will drop by 90% with this new subscription policy.

[marvel2020]

Nope, was not fooled at all.

[lordsmurf]

They just shot themselves in the foot. My guess is that their user base will drop by 90% with this new subscription policy.

You know, I've never followed this logic.
The Internet costs $$$ and not everything is "free" like the typical net nerd thinks.

Anyway ... I know a LOT of people fell for it. :P

[ZAPPER]

glad that I didn't see it in time or I would have Whew!

[dvdguy4]

I freaked out alittle and was gonna pay for the site.LOL im the idiot . Then I realized it was an April fools joke. LMAO

[fritzi93]

Yeah, I'm one of the suckers who fell for it.

[mats.hogberg]

Had my shields up as usual, April 1, so B's prank didn't catch me with off guard, thank Mother Nature.

/Mats

[EvilWizardGlick]

They just shot themselves in the foot. My guess is that their user base will drop by 90% with this new subscription policy.

You know, I've never followed this logic.
The Internet costs $$$ and not everything is "free" like the typical net nerd thinks.

Anyway ... I know a LOT of people fell for it. :P

Yep, quite a few "help" sites are pay. Everyone pays for a service if they need or want it.

[schematic2]

hook, line and sinker!

[yoda313]

Hello,

Nope - didn't log in till 9pm est last night and it was all over

Kevin

[sanjayk]

Yeah it got me

[handyguy]

Hmm, kind of talked about it at:
https://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=263895

[courtrrb]

Nope. Had links directly to the fourms and I would of gotten the same message. Unless your realy poor web site writers and we all know thats not true.

[Sabro]

Not I, but then again I had just visited a few sites before that were saying they had been hacked as a April Fool's joke, so I was kinda prepaired already.

And as far as *I* am concerned, just cause $ was mentioned does *NOT* n-sin-u-wait that Baldrick, vidhelp, nor anyone associated with the site is sublim'n you in to donating.

It's there if you would like to contribute, but I don't think that was the intention, twas a joke people

Sabro

[tigerman8u]

No. I saw a post on another forum that stated what was up here.

[Steen4]

Hah! I SHOULD have caught on, since there was NO sort of advance notice posted, but I expected that a site this extensive would one day require a switch to a subscriber-based business model, so I got horn-swoggled. In my defense, though, I would like to add that it seemed pretty plausible at the time, I was wrapped up in the Schiavo news, the Jackson trial testimony was too riveting, and the Pope's condition was continuing to deteriorate...am I off the hook yet?

[pijetro]

I freaked!!!!
I thought that maybe the free ride was over..

Definately food for thought though...


Good one

[Capmaster]

Not for a minute

When I was a mod here I read the mod forum archives from previous April fool's pranks both achieved and planned and I know what a prankster Baldrick is. 8)

Still a good one! You caught a few with it

[ricky1756]

nah, i didn't fall for it. btw, can i have my money back?

[the bomb]

Nope but only because when I logged in here I had to log out to take care of something. By the time I got back to my computer it was gone.

[stevey]

Yep ya got me.

[ZAPPER]

nah, i didn't fall for it. btw, can i have my money back?

You see, Now that's funny!

[leebo]

I didn't fall for the intended joke, but I did think the site had been hacked.

What worries me is how many have said they we're ready to send their card numbers. Imagine if it had been hacked!

[dcsos]

tHE THREE BEST april fools tech jokes i saw:

SAAB INSTALLS iPOD-type STEERING MECHANISM
GOOGLE introduces BEVERAGES
and EXTREME TECH builds a computer into a COW



http://www.saabnet.com/tsn/press/050401.html
http://www.google.com/googlegulp/
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1558,1781506,00.asp

[gll99]

I was out all day and found out about it after it was over but I sure enjoyed the notes Baldrick posted.

btw) I probably would have fallen in the trap but hoped it was a prank. I'm sure glad I didn't get to send my email

[GKar]

I was reaching for my credit card, but then in my reflection in the monitor noticed the ice cream cone sticking out of my forehead.

[TheFamilyMan]

Too bad for those who missed it. It was a work of art, meticulously crafted with loving skill. It hit its mark dead-on with its realism. I fell for it completely. I even sent a "my regrets" letter to the given email address.



Or maybe I just need to justify my gullibility with this lavish praise....

[mike909]

yes

[Shadowmistress]

Yes. I had no idea Baldrick could be so foxy!