The Leaf Chronicle Corrections

The Leaf Chronicle printed a short article informing readers of certain errors made and other clarifications. Reporters are only human, after all (though some might say overwise).

Article published Feb 12, 2006

CORRECTIONS

While The Leaf-Chronicle strives for accuracy at all times, errors will occur. If you spot an error, please notify the City Desk at 245-0282, so that it can be corrected.

Norma Jean Raleigh has picked up a petition to be a candidate for the District 16 County Commission seat. A Page B6 list of candidates in Saturday's edition contained a misspelling of her name.

Also, a Page A1 report about an audit of StormPay.com contained inaccurate information. Here is correct or clarified information:

Payments to 12DailyPro members continued through the end of January.

StomPay.com suspended the account of 12DailyPro operator, Charis Johnson, and about 30,000 to 35,000 of her customers use StormPay as an online payment processor.

The Better Business Bureau of Middle Tennessee received around 19,000 inquiries about StormPay last week.

Steve Girsky is chief executive officer of StormPay.

The Leaf-Chronicle regrets the errors.

Source: The Leaf Chronicle


The correction states that Stormpay members were continuing to receive payments until the end of January. The initial article reported a claim by Stormpay's admin that 12DP payments stopped January 8. Did Stormpay's management try to fudge the details, or was it just human error on the part of the reporter?

McConnell said their records indicate the last payments from 12DailyPro operator Charis Johnson to members was Jan. 8. When complaints of nonpayment came to StormPay later in January, company officials began to suspect something was wrong after Johnson was unable to answer questions about her business.

Source: February 11th 2006 article in the Leaf Chronicle


The 19,000 complaints against Stormpay was reworded to 19,000 inquiries about Stormpay. (LOL, talk about misrepresentation). So, how many actual complaints were there? 18,000? People wouldn't usually go to the BBB unless they wanted to file a complaint against a company.

The Feb 11th article also reported that 30,000 to 35,000 accounts were suspended, which is of course ludicrous. Members could access the accounts, but would find their balances zeroed OR with negative balances (chargeback fees). Which is pretty much the same thing, isn't it? In fact, it's probably worse.


Interesting tidbit: The Leaf Chronicle is Tennessee's oldest newspaper, established in 1808.

Related links of interest:

Places to file complaints against Stormpay
Stormpay vs the Autosurfs
The Stormpay 500 - Charis vs Stormpay- FBI to OFFICIATE! (funny)