PR WEB — Jan 13 — Skalfa
eCommerce released a new version of its SkaDate dating
software – SkaDate 7. Now users can embed video
clips from YouTube, Yahoo video, FaceBook, Metacafe, and
others. Contacts can be imported from email services, replies are
trackable in forums, and there's a new interface for creating blogs and
so on. A live demo of SkaDate 7 dating site software can be found at www.skadate.com/demo. FULL ARTICLE @ PR WEB
Mark Brooks: I still do have the hard time trusting the companies
that can't get grammar right in press release, and so on. (I corrected
the excerpt at least).
Mark,
I don’t understand the point of your remarks about SkaDate because if you click the link to see all posts on (about) SkaDate on your blog you only make fun of our press releases. Is that newsworthy for your readers? Why do you write about our news at all if you have nothing to comment about our software in the first place?
I’ve reviewed your changes. All you did was paraphrasing. Such “grammar edition” can be done on any press release if you specifically search for something “wrong”.
We have a native editor who has a license to teach foreigners English. Should we fire him? PRweb editors set 4/5 and 5/5 for our press releases before approving them. Are they illiterate?
Sorry for sounding harsh, I just don’t understand why press releases from dating software companies are your favorite object for making fun. I’m speaking about others, too.
Thank you.
Mark,
I don’t understand the point of your remarks about SkaDate because if you click the link to see all posts on (about) SkaDate on your blog you only make fun of our press releases. Is that newsworthy for your readers? Why do you write about our news at all if you have nothing to comment about our software in the first place?
I’ve reviewed your changes. All you did was paraphrasing. Such “grammar edition” can be done on any press release if you specifically search for something “wrong”.
We have a native editor who has a license to teach foreigners English. Should we fire him? PRweb editors set 4/5 and 5/5 for our press releases before approving them. Are they illiterate?
Sorry for sounding harsh, I just don’t understand why press releases from dating software companies are your favorite object for making fun. I’m speaking about others, too.
Thank you.
I’m not nitpicking. There is poor English throughout this press release. These press releases are a detriment to your company.
The following sentences are bad English.
…it will save bandwidth and disk storage of a website, import contacts from popular email services like Gmail, Yahoo, AOL, track replies in forum topics, use new interface for creating blogs and so on.
SkaDate 7 introduces the new core engine with excellent performance which makes uploading a web site’s pages on average twice as quick then before.
It is absolutely different than previous versions of SkaDate dating software and is not like any other dating software available on the Internet.
“We are very pleased with the new version, as we are confident that it will make a significant contribution to the development of the dating and community niche as a whole.” More from CEO.
The 7th version of SkaDate is mainly oriented to provide customers with trustworthy dating software solution for their online dating business and to make their dating community niche profitable.
The software has been enhanced basing on the experience and on understanding of numerous customers feedback and suggestions.
After careful studying suggestions and working closely with customers, SkaDate developers made the largest scale of changes in both user’s and administration’s interfaces.
This new version is a result of combined effort of SkaDate customers and developers.
Currently SkaDate is one of the most cost-effective and user-friendly online dating software packages and is the clear leader in the market of affordable small business solutions.
“Offering SkaDate 7 we make sure that clients get the most reliable, affordable and cost-effective dating software which is tailored to meet needs and requirements of users in community and dating sphere.” adds Denis Zhuikov, COO at Skalfa eCommerce.
I’m not nitpicking. There is poor English throughout this press release. These press releases are a detriment to your company.
The following sentences are bad English.
…it will save bandwidth and disk storage of a website, import contacts from popular email services like Gmail, Yahoo, AOL, track replies in forum topics, use new interface for creating blogs and so on.
SkaDate 7 introduces the new core engine with excellent performance which makes uploading a web site’s pages on average twice as quick then before.
It is absolutely different than previous versions of SkaDate dating software and is not like any other dating software available on the Internet.
“We are very pleased with the new version, as we are confident that it will make a significant contribution to the development of the dating and community niche as a whole.” More from CEO.
The 7th version of SkaDate is mainly oriented to provide customers with trustworthy dating software solution for their online dating business and to make their dating community niche profitable.
The software has been enhanced basing on the experience and on understanding of numerous customers feedback and suggestions.
After careful studying suggestions and working closely with customers, SkaDate developers made the largest scale of changes in both user’s and administration’s interfaces.
This new version is a result of combined effort of SkaDate customers and developers.
Currently SkaDate is one of the most cost-effective and user-friendly online dating software packages and is the clear leader in the market of affordable small business solutions.
“Offering SkaDate 7 we make sure that clients get the most reliable, affordable and cost-effective dating software which is tailored to meet needs and requirements of users in community and dating sphere.” adds Denis Zhuikov, COO at Skalfa eCommerce.
Sorry for “twice as quick then before”, this escape from the final checking but the rest I don’t understand. English is spoken differently in all parts of the world, maybe the American edition makes you feel uncomfortable. I do not see your problem with other parts.
Sorry for “twice as quick then before”, this escape from the final checking but the rest I don’t understand. English is spoken differently in all parts of the world, maybe the American edition makes you feel uncomfortable. I do not see your problem with other parts.
yeah, even I can find a lot of errors and I am not:
a) a native English speaker
b) licensed to teach foreigners English
And Emil clearly needs to change its attitude!
yeah, even I can find a lot of errors and I am not:
a) a native English speaker
b) licensed to teach foreigners English
And Emil clearly needs to change its attitude!
Skadate has a very buggy script, and they are dishonest. I say this having fallen to them as a customer. I purchased the script to have on my own hosting and had skadate install it. They stated they needed to have Shell Access for the install.
What they needed shell access for was to sabatoge the normal settings of the independent hosting company I was using over theirs, so it would appear that their script did not work on that host, and I would be forced to enter a monthly contract for hosting with them.
I say this with knowledge as I later moved to another host on my own, and simply uploaded the zip myself, without any shell access, and guess what? It worked!
Fortunately, I had a very good hosting company that alerted me to the sabatoge right after the install, as all of my sites went whacky–I hosted several sites on one account, and when Skadate screwed with the Shell settings, they through off ALL of my sites.
Maybe if I had one site I would not have been tripped to this dirty trick of theirs, but it backfired on them. My USA host fixed the sabatoge, and guess what? The skadate script worked fine. If that wasn’t enough, the handful of support items I submitted to skadate on my paid support tickets, were incompetently handled.
They always seemed not to know how to figure it out, it must have had something to do with egads, my independent hosting company, but of course it would all be fixed if I paid skadate to host me! Fortunately I was able to search online on my own, and figure out and solve the mysterious problems they said they couldn’t figure out, and I am no techie! They did solve a couple of little things, but the major support item I needed and wanted—guess what? They tried to find a way to make me pay more money for this item to be fixed. And that has been their tactic—try to milk you for all kinds of money once they have you as a customer.
Then if that wasn’t bad enough, recently skadate has shut down their forum as a move to remove any searchable help reference to their software and force you to pay they for support. And they have the gall to almost double the price of the support that I found to be next to worthless, but worthless it seemed intentionally to move me to have them host my site and make monthly money off of me.
Their former support had been around $50 a month, and now they have the gall to charge $95 a month for support. I mean what kind of software do you purchase that then demands you pay them $95 a month for any kind of support? I mean who of us here who are real citizens of the USA would pay microsoft $95 a month for support on Word or Excel, or any pricey software? And who made sure to shut down access to their user forum?
I continue to find bugs, and quite frankly, I am just going to scrap their script and use something like joomla, which is free and reliable, has an open, longstanding user forum, and can be trusted. Simply do not buy skadate dating software; if they were honest and trustworthy, I would say yes. But I have found them to be dishonest, and when paid for support, poorly responsive or not at all.
The forum moderator can see my ip is a real us ip, but for my protection from skadate sabatoging my site before I switch it over to another software, I have of course used a different name than they know me as their customer—as they sabatoged my site when I was brand new to them and on good standing! So what will they try to do when they read my unhappy comments. But what I have to say is completely true.
I am very disappointed with them, because they could have had good business being honest, but instead they want to bully money out of customers and not give standard support. That’s my truthful experience as well as my opinion on my real experience with them. I found their software a money trap to bleed you for more, and in this economy, who needs that!
Skadate has a very buggy script, and they are dishonest. I say this having fallen to them as a customer. I purchased the script to have on my own hosting and had skadate install it. They stated they needed to have Shell Access for the install.
What they needed shell access for was to sabatoge the normal settings of the independent hosting company I was using over theirs, so it would appear that their script did not work on that host, and I would be forced to enter a monthly contract for hosting with them.
I say this with knowledge as I later moved to another host on my own, and simply uploaded the zip myself, without any shell access, and guess what? It worked!
Fortunately, I had a very good hosting company that alerted me to the sabatoge right after the install, as all of my sites went whacky–I hosted several sites on one account, and when Skadate screwed with the Shell settings, they through off ALL of my sites.
Maybe if I had one site I would not have been tripped to this dirty trick of theirs, but it backfired on them. My USA host fixed the sabatoge, and guess what? The skadate script worked fine. If that wasn’t enough, the handful of support items I submitted to skadate on my paid support tickets, were incompetently handled.
They always seemed not to know how to figure it out, it must have had something to do with egads, my independent hosting company, but of course it would all be fixed if I paid skadate to host me! Fortunately I was able to search online on my own, and figure out and solve the mysterious problems they said they couldn’t figure out, and I am no techie! They did solve a couple of little things, but the major support item I needed and wanted—guess what? They tried to find a way to make me pay more money for this item to be fixed. And that has been their tactic—try to milk you for all kinds of money once they have you as a customer.
Then if that wasn’t bad enough, recently skadate has shut down their forum as a move to remove any searchable help reference to their software and force you to pay they for support. And they have the gall to almost double the price of the support that I found to be next to worthless, but worthless it seemed intentionally to move me to have them host my site and make monthly money off of me.
Their former support had been around $50 a month, and now they have the gall to charge $95 a month for support. I mean what kind of software do you purchase that then demands you pay them $95 a month for any kind of support? I mean who of us here who are real citizens of the USA would pay microsoft $95 a month for support on Word or Excel, or any pricey software? And who made sure to shut down access to their user forum?
I continue to find bugs, and quite frankly, I am just going to scrap their script and use something like joomla, which is free and reliable, has an open, longstanding user forum, and can be trusted. Simply do not buy skadate dating software; if they were honest and trustworthy, I would say yes. But I have found them to be dishonest, and when paid for support, poorly responsive or not at all.
The forum moderator can see my ip is a real us ip, but for my protection from skadate sabatoging my site before I switch it over to another software, I have of course used a different name than they know me as their customer—as they sabatoged my site when I was brand new to them and on good standing! So what will they try to do when they read my unhappy comments. But what I have to say is completely true.
I am very disappointed with them, because they could have had good business being honest, but instead they want to bully money out of customers and not give standard support. That’s my truthful experience as well as my opinion on my real experience with them. I found their software a money trap to bleed you for more, and in this economy, who needs that!
I approve that SCADATE is Kyrgiz scam. And “Tim” who tries to improve the situation with the quantity of the bad reviews is Emil Sarnogoev himself, the famous Kyrgyz scammer. You can clearly see it for example here: http://www.mytestbox.com/news/skadate7-online-dating-software-social-network-by-skalfa/comment-page-1/#comment-478
Below, where the comments are made by this “Tim” there is a red flag. Just roll over it and you will see that “Tim” is a bit, humm, from Kyrgizstan. For those of you who have never heard anything about such a country, this country scams even Russia and exports nothing else than drugs. You can read about it in the news:
http://en.rian.ru/world/20090303/120386368.html
“Kyrgyzstan and other Central Asian republics are a major gateway to Russia and Europe for the continual flow of drugs from Afghanistan, the world’s leading producer of heroin.”
They take your money and spend them on growing more heroin, and after that your friends and children die from drug using.
I approve that SCADATE is Kyrgiz scam. And “Tim” who tries to improve the situation with the quantity of the bad reviews is Emil Sarnogoev himself, the famous Kyrgyz scammer. You can clearly see it for example here: http://www.mytestbox.com/news/skadate7-online-dating-software-social-network-by-skalfa/comment-page-1/#comment-478
Below, where the comments are made by this “Tim” there is a red flag. Just roll over it and you will see that “Tim” is a bit, humm, from Kyrgizstan. For those of you who have never heard anything about such a country, this country scams even Russia and exports nothing else than drugs. You can read about it in the news:
http://en.rian.ru/world/20090303/120386368.html
“Kyrgyzstan and other Central Asian republics are a major gateway to Russia and Europe for the continual flow of drugs from Afghanistan, the world’s leading producer of heroin.”
They take your money and spend them on growing more heroin, and after that your friends and children die from drug using.
Greetings everybody,
My name is Irene. I represent SkaDate dating software company. Let me add a few comments to this SkaDate review.
First of all, let me explain what SkaDate Team need SSH access for. We need it for faster unpacking the software after uploading it to the server, and in some cases for setting up the Cron. Definitely not all hosting companies provide SSH access for their shared hosting plans. In these cases we just unpack the software through a hosting account CPanel (provided it has a file manager), or give SSH commands to the hosting company to run at the appropriate time. So, SSH access is not an obligatory condition at the install. This is what you can find at our hosting requirements page (http://www.SkaDate.com/server_requirements.php): “If you want us to install the package for you, we will need SSH access to the server. Otherwise, you will need to ask your hosting provider for assistance”. So, you are free to choose either to provide us with SSH access, or not.
Now, as to the hosting services. SkaDate company has not been offering hosting services for quite a long time, and is not planning to offer them in future. Our customers are free to choose the server to host the site on from a great variety of independent hosting companies. We also inform all of our customers that the selected hosting must meet our system requirements at http://www.SkaDate.com/server_requirements.php in order to avoid any pre- and post-installation issues. Our customers are free to run the installation by themselves using the installation manual, refer to a third-party programmer for assistance, or use our free installation service.
Each of our customers has full access to the software source code that has no licensed or encrypted files. This means that they can refer to any third-party developer for assistance in solving web site issues, or handle it on their own having enough coding skills. No customer of ours is bound to use our paid support services. As an alternative option we offer free customer support forum moderated by the competent support operator. However, support issues do occur, and most of the times they are caused by improper hosting account settings. This is why we ask our customers to confirm if the hosting server meets all our system requirements before the install. In case the discovered issues appear to be system bugs – we guarantee fixing them for free in a timely manner.
As to closing the customer support forum – that is totally not true. What you have said is just another proof of you not being a SkaDate customer, because on contrary we opened a free customer support forum available to all SkaDate customers. We did that in order to give a free support option over the paid ticket support services.
Also, could you please specify which of the numerous ip addresses you are using to post this very same comments at different resources you state to be real? We were able to find quite a few comments posted under different names and ip addresses, but with the very same content. A few examples: Kelly from New York, Michael from Scranton, Jeremy and Dave both from different cities.
What you state to be an excuse for using false identity is nothing more than a fiction. We all know that to modify the software code (either for good or for bad purposes) one needs access to the server account the site is hosted on. These access details can be easily changed by the hosting account holder thus preventing anyone else from accessing it. No access = no way to harm the site. SkaDate does not host web sites. All SkaDate customers are using third-party hosting providers, so comments about ‘fear of settings sabotage’ are groundless and obviously fake.
To sum it up, I would like to ask if the comment author could kindly provide his web site URL so that all the readers would be able to see the malfunctioning web site powered by SkaDate with such a lot of errors. Just so that the accusations would not sound groundless. From our part we guarantee that if we are able to see the system bugs you are talking about – they will be fixed by us for free.
For now, you can have a look at the web sites powered by SkaDate who are live, haunted and functioning with no issues at http://www.SkaDate.com/testimonials.php
We all know what black PR is. Unfortunately, we have to face the slander attempts by our competitor quite often. You can have a look at the official black PR response by SkaDate company CEO at http://www.skadate.com/black_pr_response.php and also a piece of interesting information from a third-party resource not related to SkaDate in any way: http://www.datingscripts.biz/dating-software-reviews/
We truly hope that the readers will not fall victims of unfair competition methods, and will make a final decision based purely on personal experience.
If you have any questions about SkaDate dating software – feel free to contact our representatives 24/7 at http://www.SkaDate.com
Greetings everybody,
My name is Irene. I represent SkaDate dating software company. Let me add a few comments to this SkaDate review.
First of all, let me explain what SkaDate Team need SSH access for. We need it for faster unpacking the software after uploading it to the server, and in some cases for setting up the Cron. Definitely not all hosting companies provide SSH access for their shared hosting plans. In these cases we just unpack the software through a hosting account CPanel (provided it has a file manager), or give SSH commands to the hosting company to run at the appropriate time. So, SSH access is not an obligatory condition at the install. This is what you can find at our hosting requirements page (http://www.SkaDate.com/server_requirements.php): “If you want us to install the package for you, we will need SSH access to the server. Otherwise, you will need to ask your hosting provider for assistance”. So, you are free to choose either to provide us with SSH access, or not.
Now, as to the hosting services. SkaDate company has not been offering hosting services for quite a long time, and is not planning to offer them in future. Our customers are free to choose the server to host the site on from a great variety of independent hosting companies. We also inform all of our customers that the selected hosting must meet our system requirements at http://www.SkaDate.com/server_requirements.php in order to avoid any pre- and post-installation issues. Our customers are free to run the installation by themselves using the installation manual, refer to a third-party programmer for assistance, or use our free installation service.
Each of our customers has full access to the software source code that has no licensed or encrypted files. This means that they can refer to any third-party developer for assistance in solving web site issues, or handle it on their own having enough coding skills. No customer of ours is bound to use our paid support services. As an alternative option we offer free customer support forum moderated by the competent support operator. However, support issues do occur, and most of the times they are caused by improper hosting account settings. This is why we ask our customers to confirm if the hosting server meets all our system requirements before the install. In case the discovered issues appear to be system bugs – we guarantee fixing them for free in a timely manner.
As to closing the customer support forum – that is totally not true. What you have said is just another proof of you not being a SkaDate customer, because on contrary we opened a free customer support forum available to all SkaDate customers. We did that in order to give a free support option over the paid ticket support services.
Also, could you please specify which of the numerous ip addresses you are using to post this very same comments at different resources you state to be real? We were able to find quite a few comments posted under different names and ip addresses, but with the very same content. A few examples: Kelly from New York, Michael from Scranton, Jeremy and Dave both from different cities.
What you state to be an excuse for using false identity is nothing more than a fiction. We all know that to modify the software code (either for good or for bad purposes) one needs access to the server account the site is hosted on. These access details can be easily changed by the hosting account holder thus preventing anyone else from accessing it. No access = no way to harm the site. SkaDate does not host web sites. All SkaDate customers are using third-party hosting providers, so comments about ‘fear of settings sabotage’ are groundless and obviously fake.
To sum it up, I would like to ask if the comment author could kindly provide his web site URL so that all the readers would be able to see the malfunctioning web site powered by SkaDate with such a lot of errors. Just so that the accusations would not sound groundless. From our part we guarantee that if we are able to see the system bugs you are talking about – they will be fixed by us for free.
For now, you can have a look at the web sites powered by SkaDate who are live, haunted and functioning with no issues at http://www.SkaDate.com/testimonials.php
We all know what black PR is. Unfortunately, we have to face the slander attempts by our competitor quite often. You can have a look at the official black PR response by SkaDate company CEO at http://www.skadate.com/black_pr_response.php and also a piece of interesting information from a third-party resource not related to SkaDate in any way: http://www.datingscripts.biz/dating-software-reviews/
We truly hope that the readers will not fall victims of unfair competition methods, and will make a final decision based purely on personal experience.
If you have any questions about SkaDate dating software – feel free to contact our representatives 24/7 at http://www.SkaDate.com
Greetings everybody,
I suggest that you take a minute of your time and read the official SkaDate Company response to accusations of being a scam at http://www.skadate.com/skadate-scam.php
SkaDate dating software company has become a finalist at iDate 2010 Awards in the ‘Best Dating Software Provider’ nomination, and SkaDate CEO Emil Sarnogoev was assigned a speaker at the Internet Dating Conference that took place in Miami in January, 2010 ( learn more at http://www.skadate.com/blog/skadate-at-idate-2010-conference-in-miami-recap.html ). These are just a few of the facts that speak for SkaDate dating software company reputation and trustworthiness.
On top of that, we appreciate all kinds of customers feedback that includes new feature suggestions and improvements for current SkaDate software performance at http://suggest.skadate.com
And these are not just words, which is proved by the recent SkaDate software builds mainly consisting of new features and performance enhancements suggested by our customers.
If you have questions about SkaDate dating and community software – our representatives will be glad to assist you 24/7 at http://www.skadate.com
Greetings everybody,
I suggest that you take a minute of your time and read the official SkaDate Company response to accusations of being a scam at http://www.skadate.com/skadate-scam.php
SkaDate dating software company has become a finalist at iDate 2010 Awards in the ‘Best Dating Software Provider’ nomination, and SkaDate CEO Emil Sarnogoev was assigned a speaker at the Internet Dating Conference that took place in Miami in January, 2010 ( learn more at http://www.skadate.com/blog/skadate-at-idate-2010-conference-in-miami-recap.html ). These are just a few of the facts that speak for SkaDate dating software company reputation and trustworthiness.
On top of that, we appreciate all kinds of customers feedback that includes new feature suggestions and improvements for current SkaDate software performance at http://suggest.skadate.com
And these are not just words, which is proved by the recent SkaDate software builds mainly consisting of new features and performance enhancements suggested by our customers.
If you have questions about SkaDate dating and community software – our representatives will be glad to assist you 24/7 at http://www.skadate.com