Popups?

[wdarner]

Why is it necessary for me to be annoyed with the pelican parts popup telling me the board is supported by pelican parts etc. EVERYTIME I come here? Sometime I never leave here, but if some time passes and I renew it hits me with the same commercial? Wayne are you trying to tell me something? Is that possibly to succumb to this marketing BS or go away? WE all have other places to go. And this popup thing is beginning to bore me. I guess I know the answer. Sell my 101 Projects book and go somewhere else.

I anticipate this topic being deleted. As well as my presence. And nobody cares.

[Bill Douglas]

Denis don't go, the more the merrier And, it's only once a day the popup says hello.

[Typical Fish]

I have to say I disagree; as with any other FREE "content-driven" site; I see it as the "price of admission".

[Brian993]

I kinda enjoy wacking away at them with the delete button. I think I knocked off about 200 tonight.

[k9handler]

look at it as a simple reminder of what's behind this BBS...it's a business and Wayne has to run it.

I would not expect Wayne to come to your place of work and tell you how to do your job...now buy something and say you are sorry!

[nostatic]

I believe the popup is set to appear once a day or session. that being said, I find it to be browser dependent. Using OmniWeb, it works as designed...I get a popup once or twice during the day. Using IE though, it does seem to popup almost everytime I refresh the page. I have Chimera (browser #3) to kill popups, and it does so without complaint.

[sammyg2]

Earthlink pop-up blocker takes care of it.

[dean]

I also find the popups annoying, kind of like tele-marketers only not as bad. Tele-marketers bad

[island911]

So, K9, if you buy things from Pelican why do the pop-ups keep on coming?

Wayne could send out cookies that would stop the anoyance. . . .for people whom, say, buy Pelican parts and post useful content for the board. but no. . .BTDT

We need a little motovation here

[old_skul]

I'm a moderator for the forum, and I agree. The pop-under is extremely annoying for those of us who are already long-time Pelican buyers.

I have spent thousands of dollars at Pelican. Completely aside from my position as moderator, I'm offended daily that Pelican Parts finds it necessary to descend to the depths of other Web advertisers with an unwanted window spawn.

Whereas in the earlier part of the year, popups and pop-unders were considered the status quo, it's become quite apparent in other e-commerce vendors that the popup or pop-under ad drives away more business than it attracts.

There's a simple test. Go to www.amazon.com or www.ebay.com. Chances are you've heard of these sites. Do any of them spawn unwanted windows?

And aren't they some of the most popular, profitable, customer-focused websites in the business?

I'll leave the answer to the question with Wayne.

[Typical Fish]

Interesting.

Does that mean that the other catalog sites that you have bought from that don't also give you a free bulletin board now owe you a rebate?

[cstreit]

If you are getting more than one per Pelican session it's because your browser security settings are not returning the cookie necessary for the website to know that you're already signed in.

You can use that same setting, but set pelican as a trusted site to allow that cookie.

OR

Go to www.winfiles.com and get MrPopperStopper. It's a free program that kills all popups. It will also kill the ability to open a new window from a link within the existing one by default. To enable that per "click" you click on the taskbar icon to "allow the next popup".

I did find the Pelican Popup frustrating... My work computer has a higher setting and I would get 10-20 per forum session.

[Doug Zielke]

All this chirping about pop-tarts has got me hungry.......

[LeeH]

Having owned a business, I think business owners need to take their own approach to selling. Then it's up to them to monitor and respond to the feedback from their customers as they see fit. However, I really don't understand the complaining here.

Wayne pays for ads in magazines. Does anyone write the magazine and complain that there's a full page ad between the pages of the articles? Does anyone call up the TV network when the show stops and there's 3 minutes worth of commercials for toilet paper and ketchup? Been to a baseball game recently? Every inch of every ballpark is billboard space. Did you complain to the park manager?

Give him a break! The guy's trying to make money. The popups are free! If he makes an extra $25/day profit from the ads then that's a bit under $10K added to the bottom line... ie Wayne's pocket.

I think a lot of people got spoiled by the early days of the internet. The freebies are gone.

[Typical Fish]

Originally posted by cstreit
My work computer has a higher setting and I would get 10-20 per forum session.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

[nostatic]

Originally posted by Doug Zielke
All this chirping about pop-tarts has got me hungry

Pop-tarts? I thought we were talking about push-ups. I love the orange-vanilla ones...

[k9handler]

like I said...it's business and Wayne runs it.

I really don't see the big deal, and I have actually seen some nice products on the pop-up (pop-under) that I may have never seen searching the site.

[tmctguer]

pop ups suck......whatever site you see them at.....no offense intended to our kindly host, but the topic was posted, and here's my comment.

[ZAMIRZ]

Dude, is it really THAT annoying? Wow, how lazy can you be, just move your hand ever so slightly away from you while it's on the mouse and position it on the "X" and then close the window.......trust me it's not that hard.

later,

amir

[tmctguer]

yes, they are really that annoying.