A new born site with STEP BY STEP GUIDES FREE

[BlueThunder]

I thank you everyone for visiting my site and had given my comments. I really appreciated. I've given 90% of my STEP BY STEP FREE, except some technical in dept guides are not FREE. Why am I doing this?

First, I just want to see how many people are reading my guides and really appreciated my work.

Second, I've showed you everything you need to know how to backup your DVDs in easy steps.

About DVDSHrink, yes, I do know how to use it. I've tested these programs...InstantDVD, DVD2ONE, DVDShrink, DVD95Copy...but the best is still DVD2ONE...the others takes twice as long. Remember, I said there are tons of guides, but my guides are the one that I picked for the easiest and faster way to backup your DVDs.

I'm not JOHN and I'm not stealing any trademarks. I just happened to come up with this name so I use it.

Anyway, I've decided to take off my guides as most of you don't really appreciated it. So there's no need for me to waste my time to do something that people really hate it. One thing I don't understand this, if you don't like that site, then don't go there. Just like if you don't like WALMART, then don't go there. Stop talking bad about what they carry or what they don't have. Again, thanks guys...I'm outta here!

P.S. If you're so smart, why are you guys here for...are you looking for help. And that's why I've tried to help ya' by creating my site.

[thayne]

What we don't like is SPAMMERS!

You have a wooping 3 posts her, all of them about your site. It would be different if you were actually someone who participated here. If that were the case no one would have given you a bad time. You obviously came here looking for a free ride.

Why are we here? Well, because this is the best DVDR help site there is. When I ask a question it usually gets answered in just a few minutes. I also give back here, most of my posts are answering other people questions because I already know how to back up any DVD.

[LanEvo7]

About DVDSHrink, yes, I do know how to use it. I've tested these programs...InstantDVD, DVD2ONE, DVDShrink, DVD95Copy...but the best is still DVD2ONE...the others takes twice as long. Remember, I said there are tons of guides, but my guides are the one that I picked for the easiest and faster way to backup your DVDs.

That is a subjective statement. DVD Shrink is equal to or better than DVD2ONE. DVD Shrink can be FASTER and easier to use than DVD2ONE if you are shrinking a DVD since you do not have to rip the disc to your hard drive first. You can do both with just one program instead of going through two if you use dvd2one.

[jdizzy40]

Another looser trying to scam others work and open up his ooh an ahhh web site, what a fu....king joke.

[lordsmurf]

.are you looking for help.

No.

Don't get us wrong. Sites are appreciated. And you may have good intentions at heart. Just a bit of bad form and some of your site is round-about. And people won't pay for that which is free, especially if the site isn't professional quality.

[gll99]

psssst hey thayne, do you think he's really gone? Wanna check for me?

yes, he is? Good!!!!!


I thought he'd never leave


After all the fine help we gave him and this is the thanks we get. Go figger! :P

[thayne]

psssst hey thayne, do you think he's really gone? Wanna check for me?

yes, he is? Good!!!!!


I thought he'd never leave


After all the fine help we gave him and this is the thanks we get. Go figger! :P

Keep your fingers crossed

[BlueThunder]

This is my FINAL word for everyone. I did not ask for any money from you. 90% off my guides are FREE. There is no need for the FU** word here. You can't please everyone. Some people like Best Buy, some like Circuit City better. Just can't please everyone. I do not make any people on the clicks. There is no popups so how can you make any money. I just wanted to help. But now, I'm forced to NOT give my GUIDES out for FREE. I've spent over 3 months trying to set this up and now what do I get? the FU** word and the other BU** stuff. You guys are not professional...

Who's the childish? Trying to report me to dvdplanet. How do you espect me to know which name is taken. I can use any name I like.

This is my FINAL word for all of you. That's it! NO MORE FREE GUIDES!!! YOU"VE ASKED FOR IT, NOW YOU GOT IT...REMEMBER, YOU GET FOR WHAT YOU'VE PAID FOR. Have you ever heard of, "THERE'S NO SUCK THING AS A FREE LUNCH?". Even DVDRHELP.COM is making money from ya' coming here. Take care and be more professional next time.

[lordsmurf]

DVDRHELP.COM is making money from ya' coming here.

I don't think so. Have you ever seen a bandwidth bill for 7 million page views, stemming from 1 million users, probably at a bandwidth approaching the TERABYTE range ?

I'm not privvy to all info on this site, but I'm gonna assume MUSHKIN uses this site as a PR tool, which means it costs to maintain, but generates name recognition to a world-wide user base... something near-priceless to a business.

[thayne]

You guys are not professional

Did we ever claim to be????

NO MORE FREE GUIDES!!! YOU"VE ASKED FOR IT, NOW YOU GOT IT...REMEMBER, YOU GET FOR WHAT YOU'VE PAID FOR Have you ever heard of, "THERE'S NO SUCK THING AS A FREE LUNCH?"

What are these?

[gll99]

thayne:
How sneaky can a guy get? He wasn't gone after all. Who can you trust these days? He heard everything I said



Bluef@rtsound:
In case you're still here, most would not have made any negative comments (except the constructive criticism of your intro pages and frames) if you had not misrepresented yourself to us. If you had said that a few guides were available but that your private links were reserved for paying customers then we would have known what to expect. You say you are withholding tons of highly technical guides but no one has any proof of that. Where are the samples?

Can you provide us with 5 to 10 partial guides of these highly technical documents so that we can compare them to those available here and elsewhere? The ball is in your court. I will understand if you don't produce them quickly.

[pacmania_2001]

Personally I think that what you are trying to do is honourable however it isn't going to be easy. Think of it as trying to create a new internet browser but charging people for it. If it is going to work then it is going to have to be better than the existing options of Internet Explorer, Netscape, Opera and others that are free.

To give you some more help I'll address your post point by point.

About DVDSHrink, yes, I do know how to use it. I've tested these programs...InstantDVD, DVD2ONE, DVDShrink, DVD95Copy...but the best is still DVD2ONE...the others takes twice as long. Remember, I said there are tons of guides, but my guides are the one that I picked for the easiest and faster way to backup your DVDs.

Whilst this may be true, it's only your opinion. I would guess Baldrick would have a favourite program as well when it comes to creating DVD's however if you look at the guides you will see all the programs have guides for them.

This is because what works for you may not work for others. People may be prepared to wait longer for better quality or in another scenario what happens if DVD2One doesn't work on their computer.

I'm not JOHN and I'm not stealing any trademarks. I just happened to come up with this name so I use it.

Who's the childish? Trying to report me to dvdplanet. How do you espect me to know which name is taken. I can use any name I like.

This is why you do a copyright/trademark search. If they do choose to take legal action against you then "I simply was unaware that is was trademarked" is not a defence.

P.S. If you're so smart, why are you guys here for...are you looking for help. And that's why I've tried to help ya' by creating my site.

I know I am still here to learn. Any one who says that they know all the information they need is ignorant. Also we are here to help, one needs simply to look in the forums to see that hundreds of questions are being solved each week by members.

This is my FINAL word for everyone. I did not ask for any money from you. 90% off my guides are FREE. There is no need for the FU** word here. You can't please everyone. Some people like Best Buy, some like Circuit City better. Just can't please everyone. I do not make any people on the clicks. There is no popups so how can you make any money. I just wanted to help. But now, I'm forced to NOT give my GUIDES out for FREE. I've spent over 3 months trying to set this up and now what do I get? the FU** word and the other BU** stuff. You guys are not professional...

On the contrary I think you have gotten alot of good advice from people like lordsmurf. As for your comparison between Circuit City and Best Buy it isn't really applicable to this situation. It's more like would people still shop at Best Buy if Circuit City were giving away their stock for free (even though in their shop you had to watch advertisements).

As for being professional, yes their has been some childish remarks but what do you expect for the internet? If their has been a single worthy remark (which their has been multiple) then you should have seen this as worth while.

This is my FINAL word for all of you. That's it! NO MORE FREE GUIDES!!! YOU"VE ASKED FOR IT, NOW YOU GOT IT...REMEMBER, YOU GET FOR WHAT YOU'VE PAID FOR. Have you ever heard of, "THERE'S NO SUCK THING AS A FREE LUNCH?". Even DVDRHELP.COM is making money from ya' coming here. Take care and be more professional next time.

Hmm... I don't think you truly understand the online business environment. Yes, DVDRHelp does contain advertisements however it doesn't force the user to click on a certain number of banners before having access to the guides. Nor does it make money from these advertisements seeing that most of the money goes directly back into hosting costs as the site uses upwards of 600GB's a month in bandwidth.

You on the other hand have decided to use a subscription based e-Business model. If anything this model should only be used if either (a) you are the only site in the market offering this service (which you aren't) or (b) offer a unique content that differs from the existing sites. As your site really isn't either you should consider switching to another model.

For your site I would recommend using an advertising supported model. You can keep the "Donation" page but don't make it forced thing that users have to do before gaining access to the whole site. Perhaps also you could charge for 'premium' technical support where a user can interact with you one on one for a small fee.

One last thing before I sign off, I really don't see the connection between this post (and the advice we have given) and you being forced to remove your free guides but maybe I just missed something?

[Solarjetman]

I think its great that you are trying to help people learn more about DVD creation. God knows none of us would be here if it weren't for Baldrick making this site. But it seems that you need to take criticism a little better. Pacmania gave you some fantastic advice, but you are focusing on hassle comments. I actually read his posts three times over because I have a friend who knows someone setting up a web presence to help his dog breeding business. And he mentioned several things I plan on passing along to her.

So thank you for your posts pacmania!!! You can rest assured that someone is taking your advice into consideration!!

[overloaded_ide]

Well, I never looked at his site.
Not getting down on him, but facts as I see them!


1, YES DVDRHELP.COM IS FREE!! I have never paid one single cent for anything I have leeched off this site! It has ALL been TOTALY FREE to me!
That is what an ALL FREE site is about, it never REQUIRES the user to pay anything for any reason!
If you have to pay for ANYTHING then it is not free! Advertising does not count of course, it is not something the users use, it is something businesses use to get to the users! And for a business to have to pay to advertise is fine, the site is still free to USE!

2 Why are many of us here? Well some of us are still looking for alittle help with this or that. Maybe we just want to keep up with new programs and updates to old ones, or maybe we want to try and help others with what we do know!
I am all three of the above! There is still alot I don't know, I want to know about updates to program I use LIKE DVDSHRINK 3 BETA5 which I just got a couple days ago, works great, excellent quality, AND FAST! That was on an 8 gig DVD and ALSO 3 HR movies!! The reason I got that program was I was trying to help someone else that was having problems!

3 Knocking any program is NOT good for business! Either you DON'T know what you are doing, or you never looked at DVDSHRINK in the first place! And as others pointed out, different program work for different people better for different reasons. We don't all want exactly the same thing!

4. What guides do or did you have that out weigh the guides here? Look in the guides section! Nearly a guide for every program. Guides to go from capturing raw data all the way to burning the DVD, all in one guide!
Just select the guide for what you want to do and the tools you want to use. How to capture with an ATI card, every step up to burning with record max or nero! How can your guides beat that?

5 How many people wrote your guides for you? I bet there were at least 5 very experienced and smart people writing the ones on this site! Gee, maybe even more than that!

6 If you had all the fancy pants stuff they mentioned, get rid of it! I won't even mess with BIG TIME comercail outfits that do that crap. If I have to download FLASH to view your site I am gone also! When I hit a big site like IBM, Canon, ATI, if they have any of the junk that takes forever to load, or require Flash, Quick time, etc.. I am gone unless I need to be there for a reason like downloading drivers! Not that those particular sites do, but I have been to big name sites like those that have! I am not alone, people who want information don't want to play games! If your gonna have all the goofey fancy stuff, then run a game site!

Above all, if you want people to view your site and give honest comments ask nicely and they will. At least some people will. Don't make any false claims like all free then require money for anything! That would be a false claim! If money is required, then it's not free!
Again advertising does not count! You can tell a business you are running an ALL FREE site for users and charge the business if they want to advertise on the site!

Put up a TV antenna and you get to watch all the FREE tv you can pick up! BUT Ford and CHevy still have to pay to advertise on it! FM Radio is free, listen to any station you can pick up, but again ADVERTISERS pay!

DVDRHELP.COM is FREE, but maybe advertisers have to pay! I DON'T and thats what makes it free!

As for takeing down your guides because WE don't apreciate them, now that I have to say is a total crock, plain and simple! With all we have here on this totally free site, you would have to have one heck of a big site with a ton of useful free guides, info, and busy forums, for any experienced DVDRHELP user to really have a strong interest in your site other than maybe helping you along. That seems to be basically what is done here, helping others! So if your charging or requiring a donation to access the site or parts of it, then NO probably most of us have no real interest in it. Now I for one would be willing to look at sites when I have the time and help them along if I can, if they are free ones for real.

The above probably also applies to any new novice user that has seen this site! Look at the size of this site and all the stuff it has! Now look at yours! If you knew nothing about Video or DVD and wanted to learn, which site would you go to? I think anyone with a brain would choose this big site over some small one. Add in this one is totally FREE, and they have to make a donation at the small site. Gee you probably lost the only 4 users you might have had

Now if you get them off the net through a search engine or a banner exchange, well you might have a chance if they haven't found this one and several others yet.

And as far as what I said about all the stuff I leeched off this site myself.
Well it ain't really leaching! I get help with things I need help with, I help others with things I can help with. That's a bit of give and take. I've read many of the guides and if/when I can I will write some free guides for back on this site. And there is a link I beleave for VOLUNTARY (not required) donations, and I plan to make one sometime before long. It will be much more than $1 though probably not gonna make anyone rich by any means
Maybe it will be enough to buy Baldrick lunch?

[ebenton]

I can't remember who first posted this image on this site, so I won't take credit for it. But it definitely applies in the case of this thread.

[i_am_dave]

Noticed his website is down. Wonder if it is for good, or if he is giving it a facelift?

[housepig]

Noticed his website is down. Wonder if it is for good, or if he is giving it a facelift?

he is running on a free server... I wonder if he's had his bandwidth exceeded by all the people rushing from here to his site?

gotta love people who ask for feedback and then get pissed when they get it...

[g_shocker182]

The man got our point alright:

[BobK]

> all STEP BY STEP GUIDES
never a fee to use, all FREE now

>I've given 90% of my STEP BY STEP FREE, except some technical in dept guides are not FREE.

So now "All" and "90%" both mean the same thing? Do your guides teach one how to make 90% of a DVD?

>Just like if you don't like WALMART, then don't go there. Stop talking bad about what they carry or what they don't have.

Actually if WalMart sent out an ad saying "all items in store are $1 and I went in and found that 10% of them were really $10 I'd complain to the manager and maybe sue them for false advertising.

> I'm outta here!

If Walmart operated like you they'd be outta here too!

[gll99]

BlueThunder:
I'm usually the peacemaker in my crowd but the "all free" must have hit a nerve. I believe, that the directness of some comments including my own and some kidding around may have really offended you. Although I do enjoy yanking someone's chain a bit at times it's never to the point of demoralising an individual. In a face to face business environment truthful comments are often withheld and when offered are made much more palatable. You of course put many hours of effort into your work and expected compliments not criticism. What is good is that at least you did not get flattery which would have been more detrimental to your business plan. Bait and switch tactics do not work in this environment since most of us can find or ask for and receive this information for free. Such tactics will only anger and alienate those who feel that you wasted their time. Trying to force a donation while dangling an empty promise is a poor marketing ploy. You may attract a few people who don't know anything but they may later feel cheated when they find a great place like DVDRhelp or even Doom9. On the other hand, DVDRhelp has built up such a loyal following that if Baldrick was in danger of folding the site many here would willingly donate just to maintain the locale operational. In some aspects it's like our "Cheers" bar.
The stark reality is exactly as described by pacmania_2001 but in a more "professional" manner. The business model you chose is flawed for the product you are offering. You would do well the heed the advice that was genuinely offered. You have much to learn even from the comments you perceive as strictly negative. Unless you are targetting different demographics, these comments were made by some of your potential clients whether you like it or not. It is afterall you who advertised your product on DVDRhelp.
I genuinely hope that you understand and appreciate the value of what is stated here regardless of the manner in which it is presented to you.