is Death by Captcha good?

DBC should have a discount if you spend a certain amount. Let's say $400/mo and above a 15% discount... c-mon DBC, let's do this!! :)
 
DBC should have a discount if you spend a certain amount. Let's say $400/mo and above a 15% discount... c-mon DBC, let's do this!! :)

I did find it weird that they chose not to offer incentives to purchase upper packages. Then again, with their service, they get customers regardless at their regular prices hehe.
 
Hey Guys,

ya this is an issue.. guess its time to upgrade servers ;)

We're currently working on this. Actually, in the past few days we've been kicking overload's ass, with average solving times of even 12-13 seconds during peak hours. However, we'll keep taking measures to improve it for good.

DBC should have a discount if you spend a certain amount. Let's say $400/mo and above a 15% discount... c-mon DBC, let's do this!! :)

We're also studying ways of reducing our operational costs and lower our prices. Now I can't tell you a concrete date for it , but it will be definitively done in the not too distant future.

James L.
Death By Captcha
 
I use DeathByCaptcha and I'm very satisfied with their service.
 
Hey Guys,
We're also studying ways of reducing our operational costs and lower our prices. Now I can't tell you a concrete date for it , but it will be definitively done in the not too distant future.

Sounds good, I'm not complaining though. Your prices are the best around :)
 
Hi,

I'm a Customer Service Rep for DeathByCaptcha.com. Please PM me your UserID on DBC and I'll add some credits into your account so that you can try out the service for free.

Damn, wish I knew that before hand haha. Could have gotten me some free captchas! Anyway, I just bought another 5k package. The payment is super quick and I usually have a 94% to 98% success on the "correct" captchas.
 
Always at your service taxx83.

We have recently implemented a Hybrid Human-OCR System and lowered our rate to $1.39 per 1K CAPTCHA. We will continue to lower our rates when we keep on optimizing our Optical Character Recognition system.

You may read our F.A.Q. in our homepage to see how it works :).

Regards,
James L
Death by Captcha

Hey Gr33nHat, I would like to try out Death by captcha. Could you send me some credit's too? I will register than and if Iam happy I will buy more.
 
I highly recommend DBC. I've used it with SENuke and Scrapebox for quite a while and have never had any issues. Prices are very cheap and seems to be integrated into most other tools that require captcha services. Just my 2 cents...
 
dbc is very good, good price and success rate. The only problem is that when America turns on all senukes sometimes dbc returns null for images. I have to split my captcha submission to 2 services in such situation
 
I have been using DBC for quite a while now and highly recommend them ;)
 
It was very good but I don't know why it's really slow recently. I'm using it on ZP
 
Hi Gr33nHat,

May I also please try DBC? I'm new and haven't tried any similar services yet.

Thanks,
Moi11
 
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Hi, just wanted to give my thoughts on DBC.

I was a customer for 8 or 9 months and consistently experienced the same flaws with the PHP uploading script: it would very consistently timeout and fail to connect, resulting in anywhere from 4 to 9 minutes to solve a captcha. Usually it would timeout/fail 3-5 times and eventually solve.

Now, this was not an issue on my web host. The connection was not being blocked or failing on my server side at all; it was simply timing out on DBC's end.

If you can wait 4 to 9 minutes for a captcha to be solved, then go with DBC.

I have since switched to Decaptcher at my clients' request. It is more expensive. However, it is much, much faster and more reliable. On top of that, when I have support inquiries I get a personal response from the admin within a day. At DBC, I would usually also receive a response same-day but sometimes next day, but the biggest difference is that DBC was extremely unwilling to cooperate and refund me for lost CAPTCHAs. However at Decaptcher I feel my business is actually valued and I am treated like an appreciated customer.

I am not affiliated with either company, I am just a customer and this is my impression of the two captcha solving services.

Just some quotes of DBC's support: they generally would tell me that they are not experiencing the issue. It is not their problem. Etc. Clearly it is their issue; there is a bug somewhere, maybe the servers are overloaded, idk. It was just ridiculous that they were not very willing to help me:
Hi,

What version exactly? I have no issues with the dbc_client.php from the latest v3.2 package.
If you have any further questions, please feel free to contact us.

Sincerely,
DeathbyCaptcha.com Customer Service.
In the above quote: I had already specified the exact API version I was using in the previous e-mail... I also provided an error log with hundreds of lines of exact error messages with codes/numbers, and a couple paragraphs. That was their well thought out response.

Hello ***** ******,

We have tried the scripts, it works fine.
Have you tried DeathByCaptcha_HttpClient()?

Could be a firewall issue.

** payment information removed **

Please provide us more details.

If you have any further questions, please feel free to contact us.

Sincerely,
DeathbyCaptcha.com Customer Service.

Please provide us more details? Really? Here is my original e-mail:

Good evening.

My PHP script utilizes your API posted on your website. The script was working fine until this weekend. I have made NO modifications to my script so I am unsure as to why it would suddenly quit working unless it is due to an error on your server.

I have upgraded to the latest version (4.0.2, PHP) but I am still receiving errors when attempting to get a CAPTCHA result using the service. I have plenty of credits on my account and I have lost over 2,000 credits due to this ERROR. My application was repeatedly trying to submit the CAPTCHA images. Your server has them answered but was failing to send them back to the client. Unfortunately, I lost thousands of credit due to this and I have a handful of unhappy customers that their software is not working.

The error message is as follows...

=============================
[20-Mar-2011 18:14:16] PHP Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'DeathByCaptcha_IOException' with message 'Connection lost or timed out' in /home/jrimsoft/public_html/elite/dbc.php:675
Stack trace:
#0 /home/jrimsoft/public_html/elite/dbc.php(773): DeathByCaptcha_SocketClient->_call('upload', Array)
#1 /home/jrimsoft/public_html/elite/captcha.php(41): DeathByCaptcha_SocketClient->upload('474048445.jpg', 60)
#2 {main}
thrown in /home/jrimsoft/public_html/elite/dbc.php on line 675
[20-Mar-2011 18:15:45] PHP Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'DeathByCaptcha_IOException' with message 'Connection lost or timed out' in /home/jrimsoft/public_html/elite/dbc.php:675
Stack trace:
#0 /home/jrimsoft/public_html/elite/dbc.php(773): DeathByCaptcha_SocketClient->_call('upload', Array)
#1 /home/jrimsoft/public_html/elite/captcha.php(41): DeathByCaptcha_SocketClient->upload('717027453.jpg', 100)
#2 {main}
thrown in /home/jrimsoft/public_html/elite/dbc.php on line 675
=============================

Etc. My error log has thousands of these errors.

I have not modified your 4.0.2 PHP API at all. I am using the API exactly as per the example, and it worked fine prior to this weekend. My code is as follows:

=============================
$client = new DeathByCaptcha_SocketClient('jrim', 'my password here');

if ($captcha = $client->upload($filename,100)) {

sleep(100);

if ($text = $client->get_text($captcha['captcha'])) {
echo "CAPTCHA #{$captcha['captcha']} solved: {$text}\n";
} else {
// Remove an unsolved CAPTCHA
$client->remove($captcha['captcha']);
echo "CAPTCHA #{$captcha['captcha']} is not solved\n";
}

} else { echo "CAPTCHA is not solved\n"; }
=============================

I am lost as to what the issue is.

I will be grateful for any assistance you can provide (and so will my customers, which depend on this service).

My DBC username is ****.

Thank you.

***** *******

I was also never refunded the lost CAPTCHAs due to the bug, despite them later saying that they would "lookup all your previous and current purchase and update your account with missing payments, if any. ". lol.

In short, I do not support DBC. I will never purchase their CAPTCHAs again.
 
Hi,

Just wanna say thanks for the generosity of Gr33nHat for giving me 5k of captcha for free!. Rep up! Thanks a lot!
 
Thinking about trying it out. Senuke seems to indicate I need it to sign up for sites.
Any chance of a free 5k too gr33nhat? If its good I'll definitley get more. Hey I gotta try lol :)
 
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I use DBC and have had no problems with them at all. But as they are the only company I've used I have nothing to compare them to.

It seems weird that the price per k doesn't change if you buy the larger packages.
 
Used once with senuke X and I must say that I really liked it.

Never had problems and the accuracy were good too. Their support also is very good.
 
Deathbycaptcha is awesome!

I get 99% success rates, this isn't humanly possible lol.

QXas5



Damn, I'm always low on captcha. :/
 
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