[Ashleyj]

I have just tried to top up my balance via txtNation and since Moneybookers has now gone I signed up with LUUP.

All appeared to be going well and I received the txt message with the password but when I tried to enter this in the mENABLE page the first time produced an error message and subsequent tries told me I had entered an invalid password.

Has anyone tried to use the LUUP service and if so did it work for you?

I have logged a support ticked with txtNation and have sent a PM to txtNation via the forum - haven't seen him around lately.

Hopefully this is just a glitch and I will get a working password soon

[solaris]

Originally Posted by Ashleyj

I have just tried to top up my balance via txtNation and since Moneybookers has now gone I signed up with LUUP.

All appeared to be going well and I received the txt message with the password but when I tried to enter this in the mENABLE page the first time produced an error message and subsequent tries told me I had entered an invalid password.

Has anyone tried to use the LUUP service and if so did it work for you?

I have logged a support ticked with txtNation and have sent a PM to txtNation via the forum - haven't seen him around lately.

Hopefully this is just a glitch and I will get a working password soon

Please keep us updated on how this develops, Ashley

[Ashleyj]

Originally Posted by solaris

Please keep us updated on how this develops, Ashley

No information as of yet and as I see in another thread that the txtNation option has gone from CMPASS it looks as if my money has gone.

Initially I was frustrated that you could only add $10 at a time but as it now turns out this may well have been a good thing as I have now only lost £5.50

Shame about the txtNation method because the times I used it everything went very smoothly - until yesterday! Oh well it looks as if it's back to the Pay by Call.

What puzzles me though is how the other stores seem to be able to get away with accepting credit cards direct and Sparks/MM/allTunes has so much trouble. You would think that they would be able to come up with a stable system of funding for us mere mortals who do not have the luxury of Memphis Members membership.

Looks as if it will be more business for Millisong

P.S. Anyone know what to do with £17 in a Moneybookers acccount

[solaris]

Originally Posted by Ashleyj

What puzzles me though is how the other stores seem to be able to get away with accepting credit cards direct and Sparks/MM/allTunes has so much trouble?

No need to be confused, Ashley


AllOfMP3 was the epitome of a user friendly online music store and the Music Industry were envious beyond belief that they hadn't come up with such a model and therefore did their utmost to bring it to its knees


They just keep on doing this, since MP3Sparks is built on the same model (of course it is - It IS ALLOfMP3 ) and if not kept down at ALL times, would soon have tens of millions of users.


The other stores are probably more like nuisances to the Music Industry, since they don't offer optional file format and bit rate as part of their services. Therefore the RIAA don't spent as much time going after those stores as they do MP3Sparks...


They simply haven't got neither the personnel nor the resources to do this with The Pirate Bay, Mininova and all the other torrent trackers, Usenet and tens (hundreds?) of thousands of blogspots, wordpress sites and forums out there, they in TOTAL vain are trying to struggle against


Well, they ARE (still) fighting a losing battle but in fact they lost out many years ago, when they closed down Napster instead of embracing that blessed opportunity...


The Music Industry did strangely enough get a second chance 3-4 years later... If they had bought AllOfMP3 in the period 2003-2005, when they MUST have realized that this was the way to do online music sale (you could actually compete with FREE ) and then had continued to use the AllOfMP3 business model... Then maybe...?


But they didn't - and they have now lost a WHOLE generation of music buyers, who would NEVER (like many of us elderly people STILL do ) spend their hard earned MONEY on getting the music they like


On the last day before the Music Industry DO pack in (sometime within the next couple of years?), they really ought to form a long line of ALL their employees and let each one kick the next in line in the ae for missing out on those two GOLDEN opportunities in the past...

[Ashleyj]

Very good post Solaris and I wholeheartedly agree with you on this.

Personally I do not use P2P or torrents and I prefer to pay what I consider is a fair and reasonable sum for the music I download.

As I have said in a previous post I don't see why we are expected to pay virtually the same to download an album as the cost of buying a CD in the stores/on-line.

If the record companies could get it into their thick skulls that there is a vast untapped market out there to sell music as downloads to at a reasonable rate they would kill off the Russian sites overnight.

I for one would be more than happy to pay a little more than Sparks prices to not have the hassle of jumping through hoops every time I need to top up my balance.

As you say something has got to change and I only hope that Sparks et al. can weather the storm and come out victorious, it will be a very sad day indeed in the record companies win the war.

Meanwhile we will just have to keep plugging away and hope that we never go back to the dark days we had at the start of this year when there was no way to fund Sparks - looks like my phone bill is going to take a hammering

[Ashleyj]

I received an email from txtNation today in response to my support ticket.

It would appear from the reply that txtNation is unaware that their option has been removed from the CMPASS site.
They say that there are currently no problems with them and CMPASS and that I should take up my problem with CMPASS. They also sent me a couple of reminders for a wire transfer that I had started, obviously under the circumstances I have decided to abandon this transfer.

Personally I think something does not smell quite right here - no reply to my PMs to txtNation here and there have been no posts by him of late.

Going to stick with jazzy - his service works.