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Master Card has screwed with me for the last time! This (BadgerBlogger.com) domain was about to expire, so of course I went to the domain registrar that I have been working with for 6 years and have registered or helped others register dozens of domains. They are out of Australia, but they have gone above and beyond the call at very reasonable prices for us in the past, so they have my loyalty. But I have gone through all sorts of hell with Master Card, they denied the payment last week and locked down my account because they have a problem with Australia… even my less than $20 transaction.
When I finally got to customer (non)service, the pleasant young lady on the phone explained what the problem was, and she assured me that they would take care of thing, including authorizing the payment to Australia, but it would take a few hours, she would call me back when it was all cleared up.
About three hours later, I got the call, but things didn’t go as expected, I was told that my card had been reactivated, but they would not authorize the payment to the Australian based company. I am proud of myself, I didn’t express myself with any colorful language, and didn’t hardly raise my voice. I did make it clear that since their product was not compatible with today’s world economy, I would be contacting VISA as soon as I got home and I would then see how well their Master Card shredded.
On the way home, I stopped and bought a prepaid VISA card and was able to quickly renew all three of my domains for the next two years, so I guess you have to put up with me for a while longer.
Thanks for letting me vent. And if you need a domain, #1CheapDomains.com is awesome… as long as you don’t use a Master Card.
Don’t expect much blogging from me tonight, I got nailed by a hornet three times in the palm of my right hand, so typing is painful.
I expect to be back at it in tomorrow…Paw permitting 
Saturday Update
The paw is still swollen and a bit stiff and sore, but the need and desire for blogging trumps the pain…. Was that melodramatic enough? 
Just a reminder to Wisconsin Bloggers, Get your posts submitted for this weeks Carnival of the Badger. For updates news, check here
It is open to all Wisconsin Bloggers, so let’s get this off to a great start (Thursday’s Carnival will be the first), it is a great way to drive traffic to your site as well as a way to find other Badger State Bloggers.
So far we have hosts for the next few weeks (they even let me host one), but Nick is looking for more posts, so get your submissions in by tomorrow night!
The Badger Blog Alliance has been nominated for MKE Online’s Blog of the Week, so swing over there and vote!
mkeonline.com: blog of the week
It seems that BadgerBlogger.com was down all day, I got with my server support and they cleared up the MySQL error and we should be back up to full speed now.
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