Monday, January 24, 2005

Are your feet itching... to vote?

If you try to contact any responcible person on TMG, you will not find a link on their site. It is only the cashier whom you can talk to And he only "hears" you when you want to pay.

After 2 months strugle to get my money from them and receiving a humiliating treatment by an employee (the only one available to contact), I publish my last out of 7-8 e-mails on this subject open.



TO WHOM IT MAT CONCERN in TRUEMONEYGAMES

I do not complain about high transfer fees.
You do not mention WHAT transfer fees YOU comment as high.
I comment that
FIRST TIME YOU DID NOT ADMIT YOUR BANK MADE A MISTAKE
SECOND TIME YOU ADMITTED A MISTAKE WAS MADE BY THEM AND THAT THEY WILL ASSUME ALL RESPOSNCIBILITY
THIRD TIME YOU ORDER THE REDUCED AMOUNT (after their fee) TO BE TRANSFERED. Instead of assuming your (or your service provider) errors and making the wrong doer pay.
FOURTH TIME YOU SAY YOU CANNOT DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT.
FIFTH TIME YOU RECCOMMEND OTHER THAN A BANKING SERVICE! IT IS THE FIRST TIME I HEAR OF A MORE RELIABLE SERVICE THAN BANKER'S.
SIXTH TIME YOU DO NOT ADMIT THAT YOU CHARGE ME TWO TIMES FOR THE SAME JOB (badly done)

I am tired of of writing to you and I intend to publish this for everybody to see.

After two months of being patient.
Perhaps TMG owners may read this and take measures.

I expect appology

Svilen Todorov (aka Svilo)Humboldt 36Sofia 1113, Bulgariaphone: 359-2-723612

Sunday, January 09, 2005

Rakes surpress level

Technology of the 20th century brought about a leap in quality of backgammon too. Hundreds of players today play stronger than world champions of the 1980s.
Bots and online servers made it possible to record and analyze every move and game. Bots alone brought about changes in opening and middlegame strategies.
Online servers eliminated distances, hotel costs, reduced organizational costs.
Many talanted young players with a thin wallet could play or watch world class players online.

See this and think

http://www.stocks49.freeserve.co.uk/CHARTS/FIBSwrc.html

Recent rake hikes of Truemoneygames and similar increase of registration fees, table fees, etc. may bring an opposite trend. In order to beat the table fees, players will (as already have on Gamesgrid) try different means to pick a player at least 200 rating points below. Some will "vote with their feet" as Hank Yongerman did.

In a market environment the most efficient way to fight high prices is to sustain a viable competition. What this translates to is that contemporary supply of backgamon action services is insufficient. We need more tournament/cafe organizers in our home town, more online servers.