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Manay Software Photo CD - Jul 8th, '04

Okay, here's a cool thing.

So I mentioned a while back that a cheapie image library outfit had grabbed a bunch of my photos and was selling them without my name attached. Which I think is a bit cold-hearted, but I don't really have a problem with, and is certainly legal given my wide open license. Of course I bought the library. How often do you get to see your work integrated into a commercial product?

But when I got the delivery (which doesn't come in the fancy box they display in the ad BTW) I was surprised to find that most of the 3500 photos were mine. In fact they'd included every single image that I'd labeled public domain. Again, this is fine. But it leads to some interesting images. For example, here's the image named bear attack. Also included is the soon to be classic milk cap. And the very intriguing corkscrew. And of course Pecky The Penguin. All low resolution of course. And without the handy keyword search or comment feature.

The photos on the CD which aren't mine are of extremely bad quality. Most seem to have been scanned on a Playskool flatbed scanner. They have a large number of historical photos that I thought I might import into PDPhoto, but only a dozen or so are worth bothering with. Very small, grainy, and boring.

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So Manay.com is a band of greedy and lazy weasels who prey upon those foolish enough to trust them with their money. I'm sure they'll go on to become wealthy, and perhaps dabble in politics.

Bastards.

And look at all the nice things their suckers, I mean customers have to say about them! And I'm sure all of those are real people too, and none of those quotes were made up!

Gee, the net sure is cool...

Posted by batgrl at 5:45 PM EST on Jul 8th, '04

Am I the only person who thinks those testamonials read like the obligatory eBay response messages?

Posted by Rob &~~#~~40~~;~~somewhere in nowhere Co at 7:58 PM EST on Jul 9th, '04

Whoe. That's a unique sig. I just put parenthesis, honest. I'm not TRYING to break anything.

Posted by Rob somewhere in nowhere Colorado at 8:01 PM EST on Jul 9th, '04

Thought I'd share my post purchase comments, in hopes of stopping anyone else from giving these clowns money.

"Worst $20 I ever spent. The original offer contained images of 4 professionally packages software products. What arrived were 4 CDs that are in all likelihood just homemade copies of master CDs.

Worse still was the content of the discs. For example, the few photos that I took the time to look at on the CD entitled 4500 "Greatest" Photos were nothing more than amateur photos that may well have been taken with a cheap over-the-counter digital camera. Completely unsuitable for use in any design applications.

Likewise, the clipart CD contained nothing more than the most outdated and amateurish looking clipart images available to the vendor.

With regards to shipping, the original offer claimed that the software was free with a $19 shipping and handling charge for "priority" shipping, the only shipping option provided. The package took more than 2 weeks to arrive and when it did, the postmark indicated that the vender spent $1.55 on shipping, and certainly no more than $2 on the shipping envelope.

Overall, I am thoroughly dissatisfied with this shopping experience and feel for lack of a better word, ripped off. If I were Yahoo! Shopping, I would immediately disassociate myself from this vendor."

Posted by Scammed by Manay at 8:13 AM EST on Mar 31st, '05

I can not get Manay Software to quit sending me the software and they continue to take the $40 a month out of my credit card. I will have to cancel my credit card to not receive future billings, it seems.

Posted by Mike in Monroe, La. at 1:03 PM EST on Jun 30th, '05

I had stayed up too late one night and I came across this ad for free CDs so I went for It. Today I recieved them (bunch of bull) but, I was surfing there site and came across ya-ll. Now I am armed. 1. My Master card is a "re-loader" remember That 'cause with this card you add the ammount of money you want and It's not linked to your bank account. I'm using "Green Dot" which you can pick up at CVS or Radio Shack, likley they are all over in different stores. Now I think VISA and American Express are getting into the action . I think this is a good Idea for ripoffs like this one. I personally am keeping all four (they could make good firsbies or something) by the way; their site you know the
www.manay.com/CD2017.html "Dosent even work" to cancel. Wana see a good site,come help me out.
http://iloveit.snappyshop.com Thanks Ya-ll

Posted by Fredman in Houston tx at 7:39 PM EST on Jul 21st, '05

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