Mon, 04 Feb 2008

Hello Archicentre, are you there? // at 15:45

Do I feel inspired with confidence by this organisation?

Half-tempted to book an inspection of the house by Archicentre, to see what they have to say about the sloping floor and other oddities in our house, I had a browse around their website. It all looks a little amateurish and out-of-date, half the pages are on http://www.archicentre.com.au/, the other half appear as URLs off http://www.greenweb.com.au/. No proof-reading in evidence, the typos. are proof of that.

Apparently you fill out a web-form with your details and phone number and they then phone you back to arrange the inspection. Half-heartedly I filled out the request form — noting carefully that they've omitted all mention of costs from every part of their website — then hit submit. Internal Server Error

Bugger.

Tried from a different PC, different web browser, once again:

  Internal Server Error

  The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was
  unable to complete your request.

  Please contact the server administrator,
  webmaster@archicentre.com.au and inform them of the time the error
  occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the
  error.

OK, I'll send an email to webmaster@archicentre.com.au, letting them know.

Ten minutes later:

  Deliver Notification: Delivery has failed.

  Your message cannot be delivered to the following recipients:

  Recipient address: webmaster@archicentre.com.au
  Reason: Remote SMTP server has rejected address
  Diagnostic code: smtp;550 5.1.1 User unknown

So the website doesn't work, the email doesn't work either, and the only person we know who has had an Archicentre inspection of their house and got the report and ticks of approval had the hot-water heater fall off the wall three days after they moved in.

I think we'll save the $495 and not book their inspection.

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