Nick A's posts

Hello Everybody!

This thread has exploded over the last day or so. I'd like to continue to remind everyone to please keep it civil regardless of what other people have said.  No personal attacks and keep to the facts.  Given that this thread seems to have no new info, and we are no longer trying to help someone troubleshoot, I am thinking of closing this thread.  And given the numerous warnings previous, and my request above, I will give no more warnings before I ban people.

On the flip side, I do appreciate that this thread is an outlet to discuss freetricity, and welcome such discussion.  However, I do want to keep it productive and if it ceases to be so, so will this thread.

Thanks for your understanding and cooperation,
  -Nick

P.S. Also, no duplicate postings please.  I will be deleting the ones I have found.  If you wish to reference a previous posting, please post a link to it, instead of reposting it.

  Congratulations to James Schwai on being our December Renewable Rewards winner!  Be sure to check out his gallery of an install he did in Belize and his story. As the December 2007 winner he will be sent a $50 check and our thanks for his participation.  = ) 

  Thanks to everyone for participating.  The more you do, the better the chance of winning! 

  Best Wishes,
   -Nick

Hello Troy!

I'm sorry to hear that your situation didn't get resolved to your satisfaction.  We certainly do appreciate you coming back and letting us know how things went. 

Best Wishes,
 -Nick

Hello John!

Your presence here has been great!  It is always a huge plus to have people who have experience with RE systems to post about their experiences and help guide others. 

We couldn't agree more in that this is just the beginning of RE, and have a huge desire to try and bring it to "the masses".  It is our mission to empower the world one person at a time by providing renewable energy products, services and education. 

A huge keystone is the education aspect, and we consider a community where people can share experiences and help each other out.  I personally really enjoy reading the forums and seeing this in action.  = )

Thanks to you and all the others who do so and help spread the word of RE/make it easier for others. 

Thanks!
 -Nick

 Congratulations to one of our top forum posters, John D on being our November Renewable Rewards winner!  As the November 2007 winner he will be sent a $50 check and our thanks for his participation.  = ) 

  Thanks to everyone for participating.  The more you do, the better the chance of winning! 

  Best Wishes,
   -Nick

  Hello John!

  My impression is that you are in disbelief at some of the statements made by Steve.  Due to the rather umm..  "heated" tone that this thread has been known to take on, it would be great if you could leave out the antagonistic sentences.  The first sentences on how it looks like be 1.2KWH is certainly a great and valid point. 

  Thanks,
   -Nick

  Steve!  You are killing me!


  *This* is exactly what I was talking about.  I am so torn.  It seems like we are having a productive/useful conversation, where people are learning, and solutions to problems are being found.  Then you resort to insulting someone because you disagree with them.  I really should ban you now, as this completely flies in the face of what I have requested, and on the principle of what I have said, should follow up. 

  But the larger issue is that there is someone here that has questions on the system, and you are the person who knows the most about the system here.  So since up until now, things had been productive after my last request, and someone owns the hardware and is having issues, for their sake I will give you one more chance.  If this happens again, I will ban you, regardless of who is effected.

  -Nick

P.S. In the case above, you should quote facts and references as to the amps required to make the spark shown. 

  Heya Steve!  = )


  Heh...  There have been a comment here or there that is slightly name calling by John and others.  But IMHO, things have *really* turned around, and you guys have made this into a very useful and informative thread!  I appreciate the restraint people have had, and am enjoying reading/learning!  = )

  Thanks!
   -Nick

P.S. So long as we can keep the insults to none, and say that you disagree, and why/give facts, rather than insulting the person, we are all good here.  = )

  Hello Again Steve!

  Once again, I will have to ask you to stop with the personal attacks on this forum.  I do welcome productive disucssion though.  To help illustrate what I mean..


  The majority of this part is not welcome here.  Only the bit where talk about the 4000 watts is productive.  The "master of misinformation" and "fool" bits are not productive to a good conversation.


  Aside from the "ignorant friend" part, this is quite good and encouraged!


  And this whole part is unwelcome.  This will be my last request.  Any further attacks will result in your banning.

  Thanks for your understanding,
   -Nick

  Hello Again George.

  I think you will find that this is a true public forum.  And if you can provide a link the the unsubstantiated claims, it would be quite useful.

  Best Wishes,
   -Nick

  Hello Dennis!

  Just to clarify a bit on the lawyer part/clear George, to the best of my knowledge, Alt-E has not been contacted or sued. 

  And as we've said in the past, we more than welcome any positive comments that people may have to say about freetricity.

  Thanks Dennis!
   -Nick

  Ahh. I fear you may have misunderstood my question.  It seems like you have experience with freetricity and from your responses it seems like it is a positive one.  So I was wondering if you had any positive thoughts to share on the product.

  Best Wishes,
   -Nick

  Actually, I do believe Chris has told the truth.  He is one of our sales reps and talks to many people on a daily basis and has done so for nearly 2 years.  Given the pure number of people that Chris has talked to, I don't find it unlikely that he has talked to someone who has experience with the system he mentioned.


  See above.


  Well, a couple of issues here.  We don't keep a log of every phone conversation, let alone one where we index it by topics discussed.  So don't have that information.  However, in order to protect the privacy of our customers, we would not reveal such info, esp in a public forum.

  You seem quite passionate about freetricity.  Do you have any experiences you wish to share?

  Best Wishes,
   -Nick

  Hello Again George!


  I am uncertain what proof one could provide when talking about a conversation? 


  I believe that this indeed a pubic forum by the fact that it is publicly available.

  Best Wishes,
   -Nick

  Hello George!

  I fear I am probably not completely understanding your question?  I will try to respond as best I can, but please feel free to correct.

  I don't believe that she is posting a reply to another post, but rather posting the email she sent in to freetricity.  I believe she is posting on this forum to help inform others of her experience with the company.  As to how she found this site, I am sure there are several search that will lead you here, including "alternative energy forum".  How exactly she came here, I do not know. = )

  I hope that helps!
   -Nick

  Hello again George!  I hope you had a good Thanksgiving.  = )


  I have searched the forum for 'laugh' but was unable to find a post from James.  If you have found said post, if you could either give me a URL or directions on how to find, it would be most helpful in me getting a handle on the issue. = )


  Are you talking about this thread?  If so, it wasn't started by any of our employees.  If another thread, either a URL or directions on how to find would be most helpful. 

  Thanks George!
   -Nick

  Hello again George!


  In an effort to see which posts you were talking about I did a google search on "freetricity", and came up with this thread.  So if are talking about another thread, please let me know.  But if this is the one in question, here is what I have found.

* The originator of the thread "Sue" is not an employee of the Alternative Energy Store

* Re: it's google position was not intentional on our part.  But I believe is rather due to "freetricity" being an unusual word, and this thread being one of the few fresh sources of information.  (And by fresh, I mean continually added to as these replies do = )

* Couldn't find the "laugh" comment, so if you could point me to it, we can perhaps better address then.

  Best Wishes!
   -Nick

  Hello George!

  I'm the guy in charge our our website and hopefully can shed some light on these issues.


  I fear I am a bit confused by your post.  Are you implying that our posts here are not as official representatives/pretending to be other folks?  If so, our employees only post here under their accounts and as representatives of the company, not pretending to be otherwise.  If you have any posts in question that you believe aren't so, please let me know, and I can dig into to find out.  = )


  I fear I am not knowledgeable enough on the RE side to address the technical side question, but if you have an order or specific issue, please let me know and we can certainly look into!

  I hope this has been helpful!   

  Best Wishes,
   -Nick

 Congratulations to Nancy Fullard on being our October Renewable Rewards winner!  As the October 2007 winner she will be sent a $50 check and our thanks for her participation.  = ) 

  Thanks to everyone for participating.  The more you do, the better the chance of winning! 

  Best Wishes,
   -Nick

  Congratulations to J. Chris Cloud on being our September Renewable Rewards winner!  As the September 2007 winner he will be sent a $50 check and our thanks for his participation.  = ) 

  Thanks to everyone for participating.  The more you do, the better the chance of winning! 

  Best Wishes,
   -Nick

P.S. Improve your chances of winning with double points this month for each review written in Oct!

Hello Jason!

Actually, we do most of our development in the Firefox browser,   so I'm confused as to why you got that page/error.  Was it reproducable on your end? 

Thanks for taking the time to let us know!
  -Nick

  Hello Everybody!

  I just wanted to clarify a quick issue here:


  We don't actually manufacturer any products ourselves.

  Best Wishes,
   -Nick

Thanks for the participation for all that have contributed to this this.  But due to this thread having run it course, it is now locked.

-Nick

It seems like things have gotten a little out of hand here.  Since James asked people to keep it civil we have had some good responses, but also some inappropriate ones as well.

Steve Rays, If you could keep the personal attacks out of your postings, it would be most appreciated.  Comments like:


  and the trailing genius in


  is not productive.  We encourage and welcome discussion on these forums, but name calling, etc.. is not welcome.

  Thanks to those who have kept the discourse civil,
   -Nick

 Congratulations to Craig Flanders on being our August Renewable Rewards winner!  As the August 2007 winner he will be sent a $50 check and our thanks for his participation.  = ) 

  Thanks to everyone for participating.  The more you do, the better the chance of winning! 

  Best Wishes,
   -Nick

 Congratulations to Thomas Skelton on being our July Renewable Rewards winner!  As the July 2007 winner he will be sent a $50 check and our thanks for his participation.  = ) 

  Thanks to everyone for participating.  The more you do, the better the chance of winning! 

  Best Wishes,
   -Nick

  Congratulations to John Bodden on being our June Renewable Rewards winner!  As the June 2007 winner he will be sent a $50 check and our thanks for his participation.  = )  John really stacked the odds in his favor my nearly doing the full gamut, having written reviews, forum posts and creating his own gallery!

  Thanks to everyone for participating.  The more you do, the better the chance of winning! 

  Best Wishes,
   -Nick

  Hello!

  I just wanted to let everyone know that we've opened up a new forum dedicated to discussing Rebate Programs and Net Metering regulations.  We welcome any and all thoughts on the subject and hope you find it useful!

  Best Wishes,
   -Nick

  Congratulations to Steven Silva on being our May Renewable Rewards winner!  As the May 2007 winner he will be sent a $50 check and our thanks for his participation.  = )

  Thanks to everyone for participating.  The more you do, the better the chance of winning! 

  Best Wishes,
   -Nick

P.S. For every product review written in June, earn double points!  (That's 200 points for every review!)

  Congratulations to Bates Abbott on being our April Renewable Rewards winner!  As the April 2007 winner he will be sent a $50 check and our thanks for his participation.  = )

  Thanks to everyone for participating.  The more you do, the better the chance of winning! 

  Best Wishes,
   -Nick