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No response to Support Request

A topic by qb created Feb 12, 2024 Views: 755 Replies: 12
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I know that I've posted here before about the same thing and that the forum isn't the right place for this, but this seems to be a recurring issue for me. I hope that I'm not being impatient, but I sent an email to support@itch.io almost two weeks ago and haven't received a response. My ticket ID is 188518.

I have contacted support on multiple separate occasions and never received a response. As far as I can tell the email is abandoned.

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The email address is not abandoned, we process about 100 requests a day. As described in the rules, different issues may take different amount of time to be handled. If you need to expedite your request in the community forums you can post your ticket ID in a new topic.

It depends on your issue. They do respond. (Read this as: I did get a response on some issue. But not on others.)

Maybe your question is answered in the faq below, or they are not qualified to answer your specific question and do not want to commit to any answer. And maybe reread the tos or look if you can see the issue at work at some projects and deduce the answer from there.

 https://itch.io/docs/general/faq

It might as well be that the answer is undefined.

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I've had them respond, but it takes a long time.

Seems like everyone wants support, but are you willing to pay for it? By default the revenue share is 10% gross.

This is the level of support the site can afford any better support is going to cost money.

I've received a response from them before, but only after I posted about it on the forum. This question is about the tax interview and contacting the email listed on the page just resulted in "this email could not be delivered," so I was hoping support would be able to help.

"this email could not be delivered,"

Where did you get that error message? In your own mail client, or from a website? If it was an automatic response from your isp or the other isp, then something was wrong that itch has no control over. Like you having a typo in the adress or a temporary failure of some kind. You should read the error again for further details. Because usually the systems will tell you exactly why something could not be delivered. Maybe your isp is on a blackhole list or some other crap.

It was an automatic response from mailer-daemon@secureserver.net saying 'recipient address rejected: access denied'. I copy-pasted the email address and there were no typos, so I'd assume that it's an issue on their end. I sent the email to Itch.io support instead because I thought that maybe they'd be able to help.

This sounds like low level blacklisting of servers. I doubt very much that itch support can help you there.

Either you have your mail account on secureserver or the recipient has. And one of those servers denies the other. Maybe because it is malformed mail, or because from perspective of one, the other is on a blacklist. From what I remember, a mail server can land on such a list, if it is not properly configured and thus allows to be misused for spam sending.

Or do you suspect the mail adress you were sending to is outdated? If it is something specific to your country, maybe you can google the current contact info.

But you should not have gotten an access denied, if the mail adress merely does not exist (anymore).

Unfortunately I don't know much about email servers and I don't know how I would be able to tell what the reason is, sorry.

The email I originally contacted was taxclientsupport-itch@taxidentity.com, which is the email listed in the tax interview FAQ, so I figured that it would've been updated if the address had changed.

For clarification, when I say that I contacted Itch support I mean that I then directed my original question to them instead, not that I asked for help regarding the bounced email. I tried looking but it's not a question that I can search up.

After looking at their site, I have three guesses.

Your mail server is blocked by their mail server, because it is on a blacklist.

It is a temporary issue.

The mail adress is outdated.

And furthermore, I think itch did not answer you because they do not do this type of tax stuff on that support mail.

You might contact support about not being able to send to that mail adress they provided, so they verify if it is up to date and maybe contact the company about those issues if it is up to date yet unreachable.

You might also contact the company, they have a toll free number, if it is urgent. https://taxidentity.com/content/about

I see, in that case I guess I'll try asking Itch support if anything can be done about it. The issue isn't urgent so I'll forego contacting the company directly for now but I'll keep the number on hand in case support goes nowhere. Thanks so much for your help, I appreciate it!

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