Is Envato Legit? (Themeforest, 3docean, Codecanyon)

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1 point·pseingatl··4 comments

Not a comment on their legitimacy, but:

> The telephone number is to a phone in Sydney. If you're not in Eastern Austrialia, this number is useless.

Try doing: +61 first and if the number starts with a 0 remove that 0.

You can't get a phone in Sydney without dialing +61! It's useless because there is no way to contact Envato by phone unless you're on Sydney's time zone. Europe, North South America: too bad. This wouldn't matter except these are areas where Envato does a good deal of business.

In the days when the Internet was a baby, the only way you could get phone support for Trumpet Winsock was by calling Tasmania. That was a +61 call as well(011 and 61 for the USA and Canada, 00 and 61 for everyone else).

+61 is the international country code for Australia. The US and Canada share +1. The UK is +44. These are codes used by the entire world when they phone someone in a different country - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_country_calling_codes.

Just Google what time it is in Sydney and find some overlap - you probably have a mutually OK time somewhere amongst the 2/3rds of the day you are awake, otherwise you'll just have to stay up late or get up early.

If Envato is as big as it says it is, why doesn't it have a merchant account?

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