Hey guys, can you spare a minute? Need input.

[matthew1]

I need some help. I'm in disagreement with Carchex -- an MVS partner -- about what page you go to when you click their ad on MVS pages.

No, this isn't a cheap way to have you go to a partner's site. This is a technical problem that I need a real-world sample (you) to decide if they are correct (it goes to a A) or if I'm correct (it goes to B).

How you can help

• Disable ad blockers in your browser, if you use them
• Go to the Volvo Repair Database page
• Click on the CARCHEX ad on the right side of the page, then look at the CARCHEX page
• Come back here and vote, based on what you see

or

[jblackburn]

Where's the link to it anyway from the VRD? This is all that I see...

[matthew1]

Disable your ad blocker .

[Ozark Lee]

I get screen B but the follow up questions are the same - I had not gone to the site before today.

...Lee

[zulu-v40]

B with AdBlocker, A without AdBlocker

[matthew1]

B with AdBlocker, A without AdBlocker

The ad was there to click on while AdBlocker was active?

The whole point of this exercise is to determine if MVS will get credit if you buy a CARCHEX warranty. If you get the generic page -- B -- I believe I do not get credit. I'll confirm that with them. That's why this is important.

I went to a public library today to try it and got B. I'm 100% positive the PC there had never been to MVS or carchex.com, and even if it had -- beating astronomical odds* -- the browsers get completely flushed after a library patron logs off. Libraries here nuke all session data in accordance with state law:

When a computer session is ended, all information about that session is ordinarily deleted.

http://denverlibrary.org/content/internet-filtering-faq (scroll down)


* it was the only available PC, and it was in the Kid's section

[zulu-v40]

Now that I've visited the Carchex site, and a cookie has been stored, I get A and B regardless of whether or not AdBlocker is active.

[bugleg]

I voted B, but it's more complicated...B when I wasn't logged into MVS, A when I was.

[jblackburn]

I got b from Internet explorer on my work computer (not logged into the site from that browser).

[matthew1]

Ok, all figured out. The very professional CARCHEX technical liason I spoke to just now said MVS gets credit no matter what.

The reason some are getting the regular image (B) is because the CARCHEX system queries a database for what to put in that image slot. If that database doesn't get back with the answer in n number of seconds, it puts the the regular image in. In addition, it can depend on your connection speed at home (or wherever you're using the Internet from).

Summary: All's well. It is a simple technical server thing.

Thanks to the CARCHEX guys for going out of their way to help diagnose this.