Thread: Found this on Boonex Dolphin forum..lol

Did anyone get zip codes with the script quick search and how are they installed?
I have spent over $200.00 on this so called free script.
I am very upset to find out that after I paid them to install it they didn't ad the zip codes or tell that there are none.
Now they want $20.00 more for the zip codes and $50.00 more to install them. This is nothing but a big rip off.
I'm not a rich person. I can't afford all this stuff and they need to tell people that they better know a lot about php scripts
or have a lot of money or both. I fell I was taken advantage of. This is a never ending money vaccum.
The word FREE makes people get the script then buy hosting and domain name then they have nothing but problems installing it. So they have to pay hundreds of dollars to boonex to install this fix that it will never end. This was there plan at the start.
A sucker is born everyday I am one of them. I could of purchased a script a lot cheaper that has all it's features working.
I don't even want to go to my site anymore. I'm a very sick person and my doctor has told me to not fool with it because my illness could get worse. I give up.

I feel bad for some of the people that go out and buy domains, and hosting and then run into so many problems with the Dolphin. But the truth of the matter is - you should NEVER get into something without doing some research first. When I first went to the Dolphin site I was impressed with the free software. The demo looked pretty cool - at least the main structure. But within 2 minutes of being on the Boonex site, I found the forum area, and began to read. My excitement quickly turned to a skeptical eye! Everyone in the forum was complaining. Something's not right. Just a moment of reading would give you enough warning to see that this may not be all what it is cracked up to be.

But in the end, I still liked the Dolphin 5.2 software. I went into it cautiously. I know that many people have had difficult times with them, but I have not. I have contacted them on numerous times (and I am not a paid member to them) on their live chat and they have been helpful and professional to me. Again, I can only speak for myself.

Sorry, I got off track lol- not here to promote dolphin. I am on overload from attempting to learn php so fast (I have not slept in 79 days). What I'm trying to say, is that a little bit of research before you invest in one of these dating sites, can go a long way and could have saved you some major headaches. Some of Dolphin's issues can be overcome, simply by selecting the right Host provider. Others need you to invest some time in learning and research.

Realistically, nobody is going to give away a FREE script, that you can throw up on your website "as is" and get rich quick. You have to be willing to get your hands dirty. If you don't know php, there are tons of tutorials for free out there in google land.

Thats's what I did. I invested time into learning. That way I can take a nice frame like Dolphin and learn how to modify it myself.

This forum (modmysite.com) is fantastic !!! Smoge - I don't know how you do it. Having time to help everyone with free advice, and do your work as well. My 79 days of no sleep must seem like a walk in the park for you.

Thank god, this site is here. Lots of really great stuff, and people willing to share. My personal advice is this: If you want free software, and free installation, and free modifications - the Dating Site business is NOT for you. If you open the site pages in "code view" and simply say "I can't do this", then Dating Site Business is NOT for you. Smoge is correct - if the zip code files has you at witts end - you need to find a different hobby maybe? Or be willing to invest a ton of money.

I was frustrated with the zip files too at one time. I was lucky enough to find them here for FREE from Smoge. How do I upload them? I had no idea. What was SSH? I had no idea. Thank god for this site, and for google. Through them, I was able to upload my zip code files, and activate search by zip for my users with just a little bit of effort and research. And thats how I push along. One bit at a time.

My site is free. And yes, I make money. It is small to start out, and it takes time, and persistance in advertising and building trust. My site has only been running for 2 weeks, and I gained 320 users. No, it's not alot, but it's not bad for an honest 2 weeks worth of sweat and labor. I have already made more then I have invested. It is fun. It is my hobby. I have learned to love not sleeping and eating tv dinners at my comuter. By the end of the month, I expect over one thousand users, and more to follow.

Be willing to work, work work, learn , share, work some more, drink lots of coffee, research, ask for help and direction, then go work work work some more.

That is my little bit of advice/information for anyone who is thinking of getting into the Dating Site business. Free or not. Im pretty new here - I don't have a lot of answers, but I will share the ones I do have.

And Smoge - If only one day I can achieve grand Wizardy, in the likes of you! Thanks for this site. Kuddos

Amen - Id be lost without this site. Thank you alll!!!!!!!!!!!