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  1. AOL Gold. What needs to be changed. What is management thinking?

    The new sign in will not hold your sign on and password even though there is a place for it. It's easier to use google chome and its free!! Simply, It takes too long to get an operator on to cancel aol gold. Why would you want to chase away long term customers. it's difficult to attatch documents, and the 9.8 was user friendly. AOL gold was not well thought out. Is anyone from management listening? Please help!
    thank you. I've never seen a product that does not work..........& try to get a credit on it. If this were a…

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    Responded  ·  Product Support responded

    We apologize for the long hold time you experienced. Your feedback is valuable to us, as we strive to continually improve our user experience.

    We are not able to replicate the sign in issue. Make sure you have checked the “Save Password” box.

  2. When will things work as they used to

    I just wasted over an hour trying to sign into Gold. After the little white box appeared two blue circles would freeze and got message "not responding", yet every other website I tried was no issue.
    I finally wasted more time calling Tech Support and reporting the issue. Other than trying to sell me some check up program I do not need, wanting to reinstall which I had done a short time ago making no difference in all the problems and filing a case number, that was it.
    I again reported my seven carousel icons which are moved…

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    Responded  ·  Product Support responded

    Please send us a crash report in order for our engineers to look into the issue you are experiencing with the software closing unexpectedly. To do that, please follow these steps:

    1. Open AOL Desktop Gold.
    2. Click on Help on the top right, and select Report a Bug from the drop-down menu.
    3. Type a short description of the problem, and click Send.

  3. STILL NO CONTACT AS WAS PROMISED BY PHONE REP! Still (see below) same problems and nothing done to correct whatsoever! This I pay for. WHY?

    STILL NO CONTACT AS WAS PROMISED BY PHONE REP! Still (see below) same problems and nothing done to correct whatsoever! This I pay for. WHY? Can I please get some help in getting this corrected now and/or contact me if needed to get it done? Waited weeks and called in on several occasions. Get promise's that are broken only; to date! 
     *****@aol.com  &/or HOME PHONE IS ** *** **** 

    From: ****@aol.com
    To: Tester.desktop11@aol.com
    Sent: 2/23/2019 9:52:07 AM Pacific Standard Time
    Subject: AOL Desktop Gold error logs - 11.0.2174 gm

    Somtimes passwords or user names wll save and not be…

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    I would like to have one of our Technical Support Agents investigate this. Please call us at 1-888-265-3733

  4. On Monday, July 9, I called AOL tech services re: buffering. The Tech, Aeriel, told me that I had to get the OPTIMIZER and that he had to

    On Monday, July 9, I called AOL tech services re: buffering. The Tech, Aeriel, told me that I had to get the OPTIMIZER and that he had to uninstall AOL Gold and Reinstall. I told him NO, last time (with blue aol) all my email folders were lost and it took 6 days to find someone to reinstallo. He said NO, the GOLD had a back and assured me I would not loose anything. Then we got disconnect. When I called back and spoke with Kevin, he could not help and got me to Supervisor, Jessie. She told me that…

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    Let me put you in touch with one of our technicians to check if they can help you out. Please call the AOL Desktop Gold team at 1-888-265-3733.

  5. Pictures not posting..

    Are you kidding me!!! For the past several day when I go to post a picture on facebook I get this error message!
    Oops
    Something went wrong. We're working on getting this fixed as soon as we can. You may be able to try again later. Really what's later!!

    You're not working on any of it!! That's why we still have all these nightmare issues!!

    This is insane. From one thing to another. AOL keeps changing everything up. Now when you send an email it's set up differently.
    You can't even get the bugs worked out of all the other…

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    I’d like to have one of our Technical Support agents investigate this. Please call our AOL Desktop Gold team at 1-888-265-3733. Our experts are available 24/7 by phone.

  6. AOL Gold resets itself as my default Browser. I HATE THIS!! CUT IT OUT AOL. You never change trying to take over my system!!!

    STOP AOL GOLD FROM CHANGING TO MY DEFAULT BROWSER!!
    AOL used to do this and I hated it. Now you want me to pay to have this issue again. Not a chance!!!

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    If you do not want to have AOL Gold as a default browser our technicians can help you out. Please call us at 1-888-265-3733

  7. Somthing is wrong with a lot of your setups that you have on gold aol and it is terrible.

    if I have a letter I am writing and I have another page up I am trying to send out it will place this into the letter I am writing, you can't have multiple pages on your screen, it messes up all the time. AOL 9.8.2 never did this, you have really ruined AOL program Go back to AOL 9.8.2 it was great in my book, loved it, I hate this AOL GOLD, looking for another program to replace AOL GOLD so I don't have to deal with your aol gold any longer. Just so terrible, what's so hard…

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    Let me put you in touch with one of our Technical Support Agents to investigate this. Please call at 1-888-265-3733.Our experts are available 24/7 by phone.

  8. SERIOUSLY

    SERIOUSLY what an awful mess you have created with "GOLD"? IF I see one more time "NOT RESPONDING" I will scream. I try to read a story and when I click close I lose the WHOLE Welcome Screen (I'm sure this is ALL part of your NEW and IMPROVED AOL) I've been with you guys for a long time but I'm thinking it's not going to be much longer with this **** that you have now presented us with. Just cut your losses and go back to the last version.THIS is NOT worth my money and it makes me sad…

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    Let me put you in touch with one of our Technical Support agents to look more into this. Please call our AOL Desktop Gold team at 1-888-265-3733. Our experts are available 24/7 by phone.

  9. Opportunities to Improve Your News Posts

    For the last two years now your "News" articles have bee dominated by two subjects, including: 1) Anything negative or critical about Donald Trump, his administration or his family and 2) All things Meghan Markle. For example, today, July 6, 2019, you have a total of 7 of 81 News articles about Meghan Markle. That's roughly 8.6% of all your news articles. Someone need to tell you folks that this simply isn't "News", and no one wants 8.6% of their news articles to be about one subject, much less Meghan Markle. With all that is going on in the world,…

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  10. Please bring back 9.8.2

    First of all, let me start by saying that I have been an AOL customer for more than 20 years and I am really mad. Bring back 9.8.2. This version stinks. When I try to print my emails, it leaves out half of the previous emails/responses. The old version told you whether or not you had any emails and how many when changing screen names, this one does not. You have to switch and sign on to find out if you have any emails. There are also other issues with the software. And to think for all these problems posted…

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  11. search history

    Suppose you had one or more window tabs open on the aol desktop. It used to be that when you would click the "welcome" tab, the space in which to type a new URL was blank. This is no longer the case. The AOL software would only try to "guess" previously used URLs when I started typing in the URL space. It would really be nice to have the software work this way again, because the software currently automatically puts an already used URL in the URL space, which can be very distracting. If you give me your direct Phone…

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  12. This new [Unsubscribe] next to the From line of the email - why is it there?

    It isn't on every email I receive. Some members of many groups I belong to have it in their emails to me and others don't. Why would I unsubscribe from a private person's email? If this is AOL's way of trying to do the "Do Not Call" list for spammers, isn't it just telling them our email addresses really exist. I learned years ago to NEVER reply to a spam message - isn't that what the unsubscribe would do if a spam message was in with our regular messages?

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  13. Terms Of Service seems to be selective in AOL Chatrooms

    AOL reestablished the use of REPORT in their chatrooms...and this sometimes results in a chatroom member losing their screen name for repeated violations...HOWEVER, not all TOS violators wind up losing their screen names and are bullying and harrassing other chatroom members in this one particular chatroom -- ROMANCE 60s PLUS LOVE -- several of the regular members brag that they are "protected" and will nevah lose their screen names while some trying to be honest and forthright lose screen names right and left....ARE THERE PROTECTED MEMBERS IN THE CHATROOMS AND IF SO WHY IS THAT SO? DID NOT THINK…

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  14. user not maintaining a good connection between the aol software and server

    It seems that the aol desktop gold software is not coded right to allow a smooth experience for the user. There is constant freezing for a second or two anytime I try to do anything on the software, from reading email to reading an article to typing feedback.
    A third party browser doesn't have this problem. Things are not always in sync.

    It seems like the servers just can't handle the load. A way to fix that would be to add more server capacity. It could also be the amount of network traffic, but again, adding more capacity to the…

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  15. AOL GOLD

    SORRY..... I am so ******* FED UP WITH AOL GOLD, I AM READY TO SCREAM. It took 8 minutes to get Signed on. WHY???????????And trying to click off a site is close to impossible.
    Went to my Facebook, clicked on Messenger, and got another screen , that I cannot CLOSE. WHAT******* ****** CAME UP WITH AOL GOLD. IT GETS worse AND WORSE.
    I think I have to look at Firefox and ***** AOL, I have been a paying customer for 18 years, and it seems that AOL DOES NOT GIVE A ****. iF ENOUGH AOL CUSTOMERS, STICK TOGETHER, WE…

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  16. GOLD support is Totally INCOMPETENT + UNCARING

    starting in beginning of Dec. 2017 -

    1- notified support about organizing favorites -
    response - thats the way it is + can not + will not be changed
    2 - at same time local news for location contained NO news for location , but contained news from 50 to 12,000 miles away - prior it contained news from local towns + area -
    response - reset location , clear cache , cookies , etc . + restart -
    - did not change - recontacted , NO response - contacted multiple times + received same scripted USELESS response or no…

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  17. desktop gold mail composing.

    On Desktop Gold, when trying to write an email, there are no longer manageable margins. in other words, when typing a line in an email, it keeps going beyond the margins of the email, and when one hits "enter" to go to the next line, one loses sight of the cursor completely, with no means of scrolling to the left. There is no justification whatsoever.
    When I spoke to tech support, they are clueless, saying one must go to full page size to write an email. That is not workable.

    Also, the latest update appears to count words. that…

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  18. I am so disgusted withy o ur service. I plan to discontinue it as soon as humanly possible. I spent 45 minutes trying to delte screen nam

    Start again. Your service has gone downhill at an unbelieveable pace. I can't wait to abandon AOL. Virtually nothing works. Tried to delete a few screen names, and after 45 minutes simply gave up/ Improve my experience with AOL...............at this point I don't know where to begin.

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    Let me put you in touch with one of our technicians to check if they can help you out. Please call us at 1-888-265-3733. Our experts are available 24/7 by phone.

  19. AOL is a major internet piece of ****, news stories run for week, trying to get help is a joke

    AOL is a major internet piece of ****, news stories run for week, trying to get help is a joke can you not be better? I would love to talk to someone who explain all the unpleasent things on aol. SEE my email on aol is not good enough

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