Posted by parkerc/ME on 8/7/08 9:29am
Msg #259068

Notary Beta Testers Needed

Has anyone received this email from [e-mail address]? Thoughts...opinions?

Notary Beta Testers Needed


We are looking for beta-testers for a notary website that will be launching very soon. We are conducting an internet study and we are interested in your opinion. You are receiving this invitation to participate because you are a Notary.

We believe this new site will revolutionize how notaries connect with clients, and we’d like your feedback!

If you participate in this study, you will be entered a contest for a chance to win either one of (2) $100 Visa Gift card certificates, or a Garmin GPS –(nuci 250)

To participate, please send us an e-mail.

Thank You.

Reply by Lee/AR on 8/7/08 9:38am
Msg #259073

Yep. Delete. n/m

Reply by satschild on 8/7/08 9:51am
Msg #259075

Yep, got it. I am always suspicious of things like this that are sent over the internet. They don't identify themselves or give any kind of background. Delete it!

Reply by BrendaTx on 8/7/08 9:54am
Msg #259076

Delete it. n/m

Reply by Frenchie/TN on 8/7/08 10:18am
Msg #259079

Yep! Just got it too and promptly deleted. n/m

Reply by Teresa/FL on 8/7/08 10:20am
Msg #259081

I requested to be removed from their mailing list, then deleted the email.

If you check out the site, the only listings appear to be fake or "dummy" listings (they all have the same phone #).

Reply by L.G (Buc) Alboucq on 8/7/08 11:31am
Msg #259099

How did you check out their site, Teresa? I don't see a web site address

Reply by Teresa/FL on 8/7/08 11:49am
Msg #259107

Look at the email address in the message that started this thread. Replace the "[e-mail address]" with just ".com" and there you are.

Reply by Tonya Washington on 8/7/08 11:47am
Msg #259106

DELETE, DELETE, DELETE n/m

Reply by Alice/MD on 8/7/08 12:28pm
Msg #259121

Re: DELETE, DELETE, DELETE

I did not delete, I asked them for more information about their company.

Reply by Linda_H/FL on 8/7/08 12:34pm
Msg #259124

Alice...please check your PM...thanks..:) n/m

Reply by Calnotary on 8/7/08 1:06pm
Msg #259128

I will sign up with them! There are no notaries within...

100 miles from my zip code!!

Reply by Linda_H/FL on 8/7/08 1:12pm
Msg #259133

Ummm...because they have no database yet??..<G> n/m

Reply by Linda_H/FL on 8/7/08 1:36pm
Msg #259136

Okay..gotta bite the bullet on this one - that's gotta rank

up there as one of the dumbest posts I've ever made - I apologize...

My point being no database..no hits...no google ratings...no exposure...should have said that from the get-go...and since no one has ever even heard of them the possibilities of success, IMO, are questionable...

I'll go take my meds now and hide for a while...

Reply by parkerc/ME on 8/7/08 5:16pm
Msg #259177

I did as Teresa suggested and checked out their website (findnotaryagents.com). It's a fee-based membership ("less than 3cents a day". Like she said, not much in their database right now except for a few in Florida. I'll delete like most everyone else did, but will keep their URL in a tickler for a few months to see how (and if !) it develops into anything worth the investment. Thanks for all your replies! If any of you "bite". . . let us know how it "tastes" further down the line! :-)

Reply by parkerc/ME on 8/7/08 5:18pm
Msg #259178

Now where did that funny little happy/whatever face come from???? I didn't put it there. (It is kinda cute tho'!)

Reply by Hugh Nations Signing Agents of Austin on 8/7/08 5:37pm
Msg #259182

***Now where did that funny little happy/whatever face come from???? I didn't put it there.***

Apparently, the closing parenthesis is coded to produce that happy face. It's really annoying when you type something like "(the day my mother died)" and wind up with that stupid grinning HF.

Reply by Hugh Nations Signing Agents of Austin on 8/7/08 5:39pm
Msg #259183

Well, okay...so it didn't produce it this time. Forget the preceding post. Forget the happy face. Forget my mother's demise. ).

Reply by christiSocal on 8/7/08 7:43pm
Msg #259199

Happy faces

If you put ; next to ) you get a wink.
If : next to ) a smiley
and if : next to ( you get a sad face.

Reply by christiSocal on 8/7/08 7:45pm
Msg #259200

You can put a space inbetween if you don't want a face. n/m

Reply by Steven Rice on 8/8/08 2:46pm
Msg #259355

Yes. I received the same exact e-mail yesterday. I told them to sign me up but I will be very very cautious of anything new until I know alot more about it.

Reply by David Whitehead on 8/8/08 8:13pm
Msg #259402

Message Deleted

This message has been deleted by a forum moderator.

Reason: Advertising

Reply by CaliNotary on 8/8/08 8:44pm
Msg #259407

Snicker

"Jealously and Gossip are terrible things aren't they?"

If you read that thread and concluded that people's responses were motivated by jealousy, then you're obviously too stupid for me to ever consider doing business with.

Looking forward to seeing what the "revolutionary" new way of notaries connecting is, that should be a real hoot, since we all know that the phone is the only practical way to do it in this business.

Reply by BrendaTx on 8/9/08 6:34am
Msg #259441

Re: Notary Beta Testers Needed- YES! ITS REAL!!

**You just never know who is watching and listening, right?**

That's so scary. We are so embarrassed that you are watching and listening.

Not; David, not.

**Jealously and Gossip are terrible things aren't they?**

No one is jealous of you.

No one is gossiping about you.

You are yet another trying to find yet another way to make a quick buck off a declining industry.

In the words of the great notary philosopher, CaliNotary: "Snicker" .

Reply by David Whitehead on 8/8/08 8:14pm
Msg #259403

It's Great!