Ten Minutes Getting Out of Zorpia April 2, 2007
Posted by Jeremy Wagstaff in unsubscribing.trackback
Sometimes a service or product reveals its quality, or lack of it, when you try to leave it. Here’s the first in an occasional series on how to get out of a service, rather than how to get in it.
A few weeks ago I wrote about Zorpia the networking site. Some readers have written in complaining about the difficulties of deleting their account there, so I thought I would give it a try. The experience is indicative of the site’s real intentions, namely to bulk up membership numbers rather than to provide a real social space for users.
The best place to start when trying to remove yourself is the FAQ or help page. Amusingly “How do I delete my account” is at the bottom of the page in the ‘Common problems’ section.
From there you’ll be directed to your account page, where, if you look really, really carefully, and after a lot of white space, you’ll find a link to Terminate Account:
Click on that and you’re taken to the Account Termination page. Fill in the fields (don’t skip the reason; it’s a required field) and success! You’ve deleted your account:
No, wait a minute, there’s an error:
Try that a few times; you’ll get the same result. (I suspect that this may be a feature, not a bug. And don’t bother looking for a reference to the Error number: it changes each time: 1005797, 1005802, 1005807, 1005810 etc… Try it. It’s fun.)
Now try emailing support. I haven’t heard back yet, and neither have several folk who wrote into me. I’ll keep you posted.
Conclusion: Zorpia account deletion process is not up to standard, and may tell us more than we need to know about the service’s real intentions.
Postscript, two days later: Advised by email from Zorpia support to try again, I did, successfully:
Bye bye Zorpia.
Zorpia has hijacked my e mail address book. How do I get out of it?
Thanks a lot dear
The website really sucks
thanks! I forgot I even had one.. Now I’m getting out. Have a nice Zorpia free life!
This thing is diving me crazy!!! is impossible to delete the freacking account!
thank you!I hate this site!No one is real,its all non-english speakers and the site keeps screwing everything up!
they changed it…there is now a little tab at the top of account settings….i just deleted mine…thanks so much!
I decided to join the site after an internet friend of mine invited me three times. After only two hours of membership I was googling how to deactivate my account and found this blog post. They have may it a bit easier then what you had to go through, but is still is not as simple as reputable sites such as Facebook.
This is the reason I gave them for leaving:
There is absolutely no excuse for the behavior of the members on this site. I am appalled, quite honestly. Before I had even entered *any* information about myself, I recieved messages like:
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“its me shahzaib khan…i found ur profile so attractive n i would like 2 make u as a friend…if u r interested then reply me plz..it will b a pleasure 4 me..i am online on yahoo i would like to add u there so that we can have a proper chat n plz i like only cam 2 cam chat if u have cam then reply me..my id is
a_guy_from_heaven85@ yahoo dot com
tells me urs i wana add u
plz come on yahoo.i am waiting..
thanks
shahzaib”
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To make matters worse, there wasn’t even a “spam” button or some simple way to report things. I didn’t receive a single message/friend request from a woman. Only men. Older men. I am legally old enough to register for this site and 16 1/2 years old, but that does not mean I want men from “all over the world” hitting on me and asking me if I “want to see what my hotness is doing to them.”
Seriously? That is sickening.
I am fed up with stalkers and perverts, and there is an overabundance of them here.
I am going to tell all of my friends *not* to join this site. “
Thank u so much… that was really bad experience after registerin there… but now i ve deleted it with ur help… actually its really a waste of time for most of the people i’d say… Im very much happy that i ll not receive e mails from Zorpia here after… livin Zorpia free life
whoah, thanks for the post, same problem here. Kept receiving emails from zorpia, and wondered what the heck it was. Then discovered i had an account there.. didn’t remember anything about that.
I absolutely desperately seeked for the solution to unsubscribe. Hopefully I got it right and I can live in peace now
Ky from Estonia
Zorpia [DELETED] sucks. It keeps spamming me and I blocked them numerous times. [DELETED] zorpia, I hope all zorpia admins [DELETED]
really help full message, it works 100% for me!
thanks!!