May 06, 2007

My E-mail to Andrew today:

Kathy wrote:

I cannot believe you unprofessionally mentioned snide and rude e-mails due to the lock out to non-paying members!

How can people not be angry when the last time you updated the news was April 25, 2007. Today's news update was defensive and rude.

I'd like to see your financials on this site Andrew. Let us see how little you're making on this website of yours,

Kathy
paying member to: kitchenlogic.diaryland.com
and
kitchenlite.diarylanda.com
A member since 2000

To which Andrew replied:

I wasn't even going to reply, I find this email insanely rude. I should
have updated the news earlier, things were very up in the air. Even
today as I updated that I have been on the phone with the server place
most of the afternoon figuring out what's up with the old server, they
have finally figured out the main problem.

The site does not make money. It breaks even currently. I earn 0 dollars
from running it. There are no "financials", there is some money that comes in from memberships every day and there is a large chunk going out every month for server expenses. I get stomachaches some months when I
have extra server expenses like broken equipment, etc, and have to move
money around in my personal account to cover it. If you are this hostile
because you think the site is some big money machine or that spending
this entire week working on this stuff and cancelling all my previous plans is some sort of cash-grab you're mistaken.

If you're going to keep writing me emails like this or sticking banners
up attacking the site, please at least wait till I have this stuff
fixed, I have enough stress.

Andrew

Uh, yeah, I kind of submitted for his approval some banners that mentioned what's been going down. Apparently he had time to look at them between his phone calls today.

For purposes of disclosure, I think it's best that Diarylanders read this and make of it what they want.

Andrew's business practice reminds me of the two guys Thor worked with who owned an Internet Service Provider company on the east coast. They were 18 and 19 years old and figured out a way to make a ton of money but without the maturity it took to keep the business afloat.

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