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05-24-2021, 08:21 AM | #1 |
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Mike's web domain error
Looks like poor Mike's Afordable let their domain name registration lapse this morning. Until they get the situation fixed, you can browse online via the (extremely slow) web archive or just call.
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05-24-2021, 09:17 AM | #2 |
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Re: Mike's web domain error
This is not good. There are companies out there who wait for this to happen, and snap up the URL and hold it for ransom and/or resale. I hope Mike gets on this right away.
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05-24-2021, 09:23 AM | #3 |
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Looks like it's working now.
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05-24-2021, 09:38 AM | #4 |
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Re: Mike's web domain error
Their registrar, Network Solutions, appears to be holding it for them (for a price, I'm sure).
For such an old-tech hobby, it's interesting that the Model A vendors were quite early tech adopters. Mac's Auto Parts was online in 1997. Mike's, Snyder's, and Bratton's followed in 1998, and Bert's was online by 1999. It was several years before they got their catalogs online though. The Snyder's website, circa 1998: https://web.archive.org/web/19981212...tiqueauto.com/ |
05-24-2021, 10:30 AM | #5 | |
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I think those companies (-vultures) that used to do that can no longer snap one up immediately. After it has had the site removed, the owner has 30 days to re-register it without losing it, -and even then, there is a grace period that follows that time period. |
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05-24-2021, 10:49 AM | #6 | |
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05-24-2021, 01:27 PM | #7 | |
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05-24-2021, 01:54 PM | #8 |
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Snyder's has a notification up that they're migrating to a new site back-end "soon." Hopefully that'll work on Safari.
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05-24-2021, 02:39 PM | #9 |
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Easy enough to download Firefox or Chrome. One needs to be flexible when it comes to internet because not all web sites work with all browsers. Annoying, but a fact of life.
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05-24-2021, 06:22 PM | #10 |
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I’ve had some issues with Snyders with Firefox at times. Sometimes the quantity goes through sometimes it doesn’t I have to be careful because it’s happened a number of times where I received the wrong quantity when I didn’t double check my orders. Maybe it’s Firefox on my MacBook but haven’t checked safari or chrome.
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05-24-2021, 10:09 PM | #11 | |
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It’s not like there are significant price or quality differences between any of our suppliers. All or most of the repro parts are made by the same companies. I will patronize the distributors who make it easy.
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05-25-2021, 04:24 AM | #12 | |
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I don’t totally agree. The day a web site went live, it *could* have worked properly on multiple browsers. However, the issues are not necessarily laziness or penny pinching. Over time, incessant software updates can break things without the web site authors necessarily knowing it. For example, a web page can be broken on *my* PC (because of some screwy update), but work fine when tested by the software vendor. (Once a web site change is released, future testing of that released change does not always continue.) That’s a common problem with mandated external web sites where I work, and it drives me nuts having to remember which browser to use for a specific application. Web sites are typically horrendously complicated, at least “under the covers” where things break. I do agree that broken web sites are a pain, and that makes doing business with the parts vendors difficult. From what I’ve seen, constantly fixing a web site is usually hard and expensive in terms of payroll. Most Model A vendors likely “farm out” their web development to web site vendors because the Model A vendors probably don’t have folks on staff with web site building skills. I totally agree that a web site will lose business to competitors when it works poorly. I’m not sure which browser you use with Snyder’s, but I have made multiple purchases on their web site (Bratton’s and Mike’s too), on multiple browsers, without issue. I suspect there is something different between your PC and mine. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Last edited by shew01; 05-25-2021 at 05:02 AM. |
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05-25-2021, 10:58 AM | #13 |
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Re: Mike's web domain error
For me it's all about time and convenience. If its simple I'll use it.
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05-25-2021, 04:54 PM | #14 |
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I use safari. Snyders always has a pop up that I an using a browser not approved.
I just log in and continue on with Safari for my order. John
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05-25-2021, 06:33 PM | #15 |
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Really? I have never had a problem with Snyder's but I prefer Bratton's, which I have never had a problem with either. What version of Safari do you have. I have 14.0.3
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05-25-2021, 09:59 PM | #16 |
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FYI - although I have had intermittent probs with multiple vendors, all went well today, using Firefox, ordering from both Snyders and Mike's.
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