granjudy1
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Reged: 06/26/04
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i just got this email has anyone heard of this web site?
It said we are back..Kwik-medz.net. going to their web site prices are pretty good, just wanting to know if anyone has used it?
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Farmer
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Reged: 12/23/01
Posts: 202
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Prices seem fine but I see two very big red flags. One is a professional site with a hotmail addy. The other was, I pinged the website to see where it is located. It is in the U.K. That is not to say they are not a US company. They may have simply set up their server overseas for legal reasons. But I would not send my credit card info to a server outside the US with my only contact info being Hotmail account. But, I have to say the prices look great. I just wonder though if it's not copied from somewhere else. Look under (M) there are two membership fees listed and both a different than what they quote. Also since you would only likely get three more consults in a calendar year and a membership saves you $25 per consult, it would seem a membership would save you $75, yet the price is $85? I just don't know.
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patient2all
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Reged: 05/16/02
Posts: 287
Loc: usa
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If you keep looking Farmer, even more red flags. Hidden registration, non-secure order page. They're stealing some of their art using other's bandwidth, a real no-no. Their 'submit' button doesn't process into a database, but instead the data strings go to another free email address. That's the most ameteurish way of processing a form submission.
They PM'd members here trying to drum up business. To quote a wise board member (Billy III) side when asked about quik-medz or whatever.
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run as fast and far away from them as you can
Of course, unless granjudy would like to help some poor lads in Australia buy new surfboards on her cc.
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granjudy1
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Reged: 06/26/04
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how do you find out all that stuff on something? I figured it would be too good to be real. because of their prices.
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anfo
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Reged: 09/12/04
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how do you find out all that stuff on something?
As you go through each web page, select "page source" from your web browsers view menu (for mozilla) or for IE select "source" from the view menu. You can view all of the HTML code and client side javascript or vbscript, if your not a programmer it may not make much sense though.
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patient2all
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Reged: 05/16/02
Posts: 287
Loc: usa
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anfo is correct, much of that info would only be apparent to someone who designs web pages. To get registration information on a website, do a 'whois' at a site like this:
http://www.registar.com/whois.shtml
To find out where a web server is located, sign up for the Visual Route Demo.
Keep in mind that a server far from where you believe the business is located doesn't signify much. Many of my US sites are hosted by a company in Canada. With the powers of the 'net, you can hunt for the best deal on web hosting, etc.
However, if a site appears to be US, but the server is in India, that may be telling you something.
As far as the surfboards in Australia, that was an educated guess, it could have been used for stereos in Nigeria or to pay for porn in Estonia.
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