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ab348 · August 2018

Maybe somebody should send @isellhondas a wire or something about this change. I've got a bad feeling about him making it through.

abacomike · August 2018

ab348 said:

What’s the difference between an “insider” and an “outsider” login?
An outsider account has all the same rights and privileges as an insider, except you are on the outside looking in and can't do anything.

Good grief! I am now totally confused. So an outsider can look in, but can’t look out? An insider can look out, but can’t look in? Ugh!

qbrozen · August 2018

tommister2 said:

qbrozen said:

abacomike said:

What’s the difference between an “insider” and an “outsider” login?

Would also like to know. Do I need an "insider" account? Why?

See this for details https://forums.edmunds.com/discussion/51967/general/x/login-system-change-happens-this-week/p1?new=1

I read the how, but want to know the why. I have never been much of a team player or clique supporter. I don't like the sound of being "an insider."

driver100 · August 2018

ab348 said:

snakeweasel said:

ab348 said:

28firefighter said:
Ah yes, the switch to SSO. Never goes wrong. /s
I just signed up for an insider account. One thing I noticed is that it requires a password of at least 7 characters, whereas this site lets you get by with less, so that might be an unexpected stumbling block.
how do you sign up for the insider account?

Go to edmunds.com and click the "sign up" link on the top right.

Thanks Ab......someone finally lets us in on how to sign up.
So I signed up....do I get to keep my stage name?

driver100 · August 2018

Too bad JMonroe..........with Abs help I figured it out. I am still around to haunt you.
You can't get rid of me that easy....the question is....Did you figure out how to sign in?
If not, bye bye.

explorerx4 · August 2018

@qbrozen,
So this is you?
I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member.
Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/groucho_marx_122546

ab348 · August 2018

"Nobody goes there any more, it's too crowded." - @qbrozen

jmonroe · August 2018

driver100 said:
Too bad JMonroe..........with Abs help I figured it out. I am still around to haunt you.
You can't get rid of me that easy....the question is....Did you figure out how to sign in?
If not, bye bye.

I just lost the incentive now.

jmonroe

imidazol97 · August 2018

stickguy said:
yup. they did it as a stunt. Name is still IHOP. But, it worked like a charm. Millions of people who did not realize the chain even still existed spent time talking out them!

to me, it's Waffle House or get out. Too bad we don't have them up north.

We have Waffle House...

imidazol97 · August 2018

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JY60kPY49UQ

imidazol97 · August 2018

If we have to change names, I'll have to give it some thought.

But meanwhile, how did this happen? Looks like Ohio plates: I would have expected Florida.

roadburner · August 2018

On a BMW board I visit an arrogant(and borderline illiterate) member camped out in a thread I was following. With the help of another participant I managed to get him to thoroughly lose it- which got him banned and the thread locked. It all reminded me of the good old days in Town Hall(AKA: Toon H*ll).

abacomike · August 2018

jmonroe said:

Too bad JMonroe..........with Abs help I figured it out. I am still around to haunt you. You can't get rid of me that easy....the question is....Did you figure out how to sign in? If not, bye bye.
I just lost the incentive now. jmonroe

Love your new “facelift”! Boy, you are one good lookin’ guy, jmonroe. A true Adonis with a squared jaw. I hope you didn’t pay very much - but knowing you, you probably had an intern do the facelift!

oldfarmer50 · August 2018

Here's a question.

Since the last facelift I haven't been able to access the forums except by going to google and entering Edmunds Fourms-Cars and Conversations. I then select some old post to click on in order to enter. PITA but it works.

Under the new system will that still be possible?

stickguy · August 2018

you should just have to go to the edmunds home page and click on the forms link (or insider).

ab348 · August 2018

stickguy said:

you should just have to go to the edmunds home page and click on the forms link (or insider).

I never found a forums link on the current version of Edmunds homepage.

If if you enter the web address forums.edmunds.com it should take you there directly.

The link to get to the discussions you bookmarked is https://forums.edmunds.com/discussions/bookmarked

stickguy · August 2018

that is what I type in to get there (or out of bookmarks). But if you look hard enough, there is a link on the Edmunds.com home page to the forums. On the research tab, under articles and advice.

explorerx4 · August 2018

You can also look at the site map and click on the categorized view.

ab348 · August 2018

explorerx4 said:
You can also look at the site map and click on the categorized view.

I can never get the site map to load.

stickguy said:

But if you look hard enough, there is a link on the Edmunds.com home page to the forums. On the research tab, under articles and advice.

It isn't really on the home page if you have to hunt for it on another page, though.

Mr_Shiftright · August 2018

qbrozen said:

tommister2 said:

qbrozen said:

abacomike said:

What’s the difference between an “insider” and an “outsider” login?

Would also like to know. Do I need an "insider" account? Why?

See this for details change-happens-this-week/p1?new=1">https://forums.edmunds.com/discussion/51967/general/x/login-system-change-happens-this-week/p1?new=1

I read the how, but want to know the why. I have never been much of a team player or clique supporter. I don't like the sound of being "an insider."
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It's to prevent some users from having login glitches. It's a more stable platform We are the government and we're here to help you.

snakeweasel · August 2018

PF_Flyer said:

Ah yes, the switch to SSO. Never goes wrong. /s
I just signed up for an insider account. One thing I noticed is that it requires a password of at least 7 characters, whereas this site lets you get by with less, so that might be an unexpected stumbling block.
how do you sign up for the insider account?
Just go the Edmunds home page and click on Sign In at the top. Here's a link right to the spot! https://www.edmunds.com/insider/sign-up/

OK thanks for the link, I access Edmund's via a mobile device so I get the mobile site and couldn't find anything to sign up on.

Now how can I change the email that I sign in on? I have tried to change it multiple times over the last couple of years but it never takes.

jmonroe · August 2018

snakeweasel said:

PF_Flyer said:

snakeweasel said:

ab348 said:

28firefighter said:
Ah yes, the switch to SSO. Never goes wrong. /s
I just signed up for an insider account. One thing I noticed is that it requires a password of at least 7 characters, whereas this site lets you get by with less, so that might be an unexpected stumbling block.
how do you sign up for the insider account?
Just go the Edmunds home page and click on Sign In at the top. Here's a link right to the spot!

https://www.edmunds.com/insider/sign-up/

OK thanks for the link, I access Edmund's via a mobile device so I get the mobile site and couldn't find anything to sign up on.

Now how can I change the email that I sign in on? I have tried to change it multiple times over the last couple of years but it never takes.

Same thing has happened to me for at least that long. I tried to change it again tonight and it still doesn't work. If Edmunds ever tried to send me an email, I'll never get it at the email shown in my profile. When the system glitches, I have to remember the wrong email to get in here but that has always worked. In my case if it is broke I ain't able to fix it. Don't worry guys, this change will be seamless.

jmonroe

driver100 · August 2018

jmonroe said:

snakeweasel said:

PF_Flyer said:

snakeweasel said:

ab348 said:

28firefighter said:
Ah yes, the switch to SSO. Never goes wrong. /s
I just signed up for an insider account. One thing I noticed is that it requires a password of at least 7 characters, whereas this site lets you get by with less, so that might be an unexpected stumbling block.
how do you sign up for the insider account?
Just go the Edmunds home page and click on Sign In at the top. Here's a link right to the spot!

https://www.edmunds.com/insider/sign-up/

OK thanks for the link, I access Edmund's via a mobile device so I get the mobile site and couldn't find anything to sign up on.

Now how can I change the email that I sign in on? I have tried to change it multiple times over the last couple of years but it never takes.

Same thing has happened to me for at least that long. I tried to change it again tonight and it still doesn't work. If Edmunds ever tried to send me an email, I'll never get it at the email shown in my profile. When the system glitches, I have to remember the wrong email to get in here but that has always worked. In my case if it is broke I ain't able to fix it. Don't worry guys, this change will be seamless.

jmonroe

It has been nice knowing you JMonroe

sb55 · August 2018

Another Darwin award nominee:

ST. ALBANS, Vt. (WCAX) We have new details about a quick stop robbery that sparked a police chase that eventually ended in St. Albans Bay.

It all started Saturday night when police say Stephen Salyer, 38, of Enosburgh, robbed an Enosburgh Maplefields and ran off. Witnesses had spotted an ankle monitor on the robber, so police were able to get a location on Salyer by using surveillance video and the GPS tracking device on his ankle.

Officers say they tried to pull the car over, but they say Salyer took off and led them on a 30-minute chase. Spike strips were used, but that didn't stop the car, which eventually reached St. Albans Bay. Police say Salyer drove out onto the dock and right into Lake Champlain. The vehicle sank to the bottom and investigators say Salyer got out and started to swim away from his vehicle, further into the lake.

Police eventually caught up with him and he was sent to the hospital for his injuries.

Bail was set at $25,000.

houdini1 · August 2018

driver100 said:

stickguy said:
Driver, at least if you get sent into cyberspace limbo, at least you will have Isell to keep you company most likely!
Yeh, we can start our own group for us computer-illiterates who get lost in cyberspace.

There is already a group like that, but no body knows how to find them. I think this is just Edmund's way of purging the member list. They think that at least half of us old guys will get lost. Hopefully they have "misunderestimated", as George Bush would say, just how stubborn and spiteful old people are.

houdini1 · August 2018

PF_Flyer said:

tommister2 said:
Can one of the moderators check my account to see if I am ready for the sign-in process change? I do have an edmunds insider account with the same email address as the account that I use for these forums. Is that all I need to do to be ready?
If you made an Insider account with the same email you use here in the forums, you've done all you need to do, and you're good to go. Other than signing in with your Insider password like it says in the login system change announcement there's no secret handshake to know or anything like that

When I tried to use the same password for my email acct. that I have been using for years, they said it didn't match !!!

houdini1 · August 2018

sb55 said:

Another Darwin award nominee:

ST. ALBANS, Vt. (WCAX) We have new details about a quick stop robbery that sparked a police chase that eventually ended in St. Albans Bay.

It all started Saturday night when police say Stephen Salyer, 38, of Enosburgh, robbed an Enosburgh Maplefields and ran off. Witnesses had spotted an ankle monitor on the robber, so police were able to get a location on Salyer by using surveillance video and the GPS tracking device on his ankle.

Officers say they tried to pull the car over, but they say Salyer took off and led them on a 30-minute chase. Spike strips were used, but that didn't stop the car, which eventually reached St. Albans Bay. Police say Salyer drove out onto the dock and right into Lake Champlain. The vehicle sank to the bottom and investigators say Salyer got out and started to swim away from his vehicle, further into the lake.

Police eventually caught up with him and he was sent to the hospital for his injuries.

Bail was set at $25,000.

Well, what else was the poor guy supposed to do !!

qbrozen · August 2018

sb55 said:

Another Darwin award nominee: ST. ALBANS, Vt. (WCAX) We have new details about a quick stop robbery that sparked a police chase that eventually ended in St. Albans Bay. It all started Saturday night when police say Stephen Salyer, 38, of Enosburgh, robbed an Enosburgh Maplefields and ran off. Witnesses had spotted an ankle monitor on the robber, so police were able to get a location on Salyer by using surveillance video and the GPS tracking device on his ankle. Officers say they tried to pull the car over, but they say Salyer took off and led them on a 30-minute chase. Spike strips were used, but that didn't stop the car, which eventually reached St. Albans Bay. Police say Salyer drove out onto the dock and right into Lake Champlain. The vehicle sank to the bottom and investigators say Salyer got out and started to swim away from his vehicle, further into the lake. Police eventually caught up with him and he was sent to the hospital for his injuries. Bail was set at $25,000.

Ya gotta die to get the award so I'm afraid he is disqualified.

stickguy · August 2018

Houdini, I think that just means you didn’t have an insider account already.

tbirdmarco · August 2018

Explore I will try not to use that one, but I can’t guarantee anything I will look into it eventually not right now.

tbirdmarco · August 2018

Going on a job interview in a little while, and another dealer ship Hempstead ford Lincoln so everyone thank you in advance for the comments I’m going to get wishing me luck. Ha ha ha every time I come on here there’s 1 million comments I mean postings and I can never catch up. Just little by little I do try. Have a good day everyone

snakeweasel · August 2018

tbirdmarco said:

Going on a job interview in a little while, and another dealer ship Hempstead ford Lincoln so everyone thank you in advance for the comments I’m going to get wishing me luck. Ha ha ha every time I come on here there’s 1 million comments I mean postings and I can never catch up. Just little by little I do try. Have a good day everyone

Good Luck but since you do seem to have a good head on your shoulder you may not need it but I'll send it anyway.

driver100 · August 2018

Good luck Marco. Remember, every interview is worthwhile, sometimes it is training until you get to the real one. The more you do the better you get at it.

oldfarmer50 · August 2018

stickguy said:
you should just have to go to the edmunds home page and click on the forms link (or insider).

Unfortunately when I do that now the page won't load (Edumund header but a blank white page) which is why I have to do it the other way. Probably has more to do with my antique IPad than Edmunds.

qbrozen · August 2018

well that failed. I registered and updated password, but when i try to log in, it tells me authentication failed. Old login still works though.

roadburner · August 2018

tbirdmarco said:
Going on a job interview in a little while, and another dealer ship Hempstead ford Lincoln so everyone thank you in advance for the comments I’m going to get wishing me luck. Ha ha ha every time I come on here there’s 1 million comments I mean postings and I can never catch up. Just little by little I do try. Have a good day everyone

Good luck!!!

PF_Flyer · August 2018

qbrozen said:

abacomike said:

What’s the difference between an “insider” and an “outsider” login?

Would also like to know. Do I need an "insider" account? Why?

Insider is going to be the new registration for the whole site. Integrates the whole thing. So someone who shows up and hasn't yet discovered the joys of the forums, won't need to create a new account. I've had an Insider acct for a while and now I'll only have ONE PW to remember (or write down)

There will be no "outsider" login, just a single login

PF_Flyer · August 2018

Like it says in the login systems change thread, this will be pretty straightforward.

If you haven't created an Insider account before the change, you'll simply create the account the first time you login after the change. Just be sure to use the same email you login with now so that all your badges follow you

And as long as we're quoting funny people...

I know a lot about cars, man. I can look at any car's headlights and tell you exactly which way it's coming.
- Mitch Hedberg

snakeweasel · August 2018

PF_Flyer said:

Like it says in the login systems change thread, this will be pretty straightforward. If you haven't created an Insider account before the change, you'll simply create the account the first time you login after the change. Just be sure to use the same email you login with now so that all your badges follow you And as long as we're quoting funny people... I know a lot about cars, man. I can look at any car's headlights and tell you exactly which way it's coming. - Mitch Hedberg

To attract a man I wear a perfume called "New car smell" - Rita Rudner

ab348 · August 2018

qbrozen said:
well that failed. I registered and updated password, but when i try to log in, it tells me authentication failed. Old login still works though.

After you register and it accepts your email and password, it sends you an email that you need to respond to before it authenticates your account. Maybe that didn't happen (yet)?

qbrozen · August 2018

it did. And I authenticated it. Oh well, if I can't get back on after the switch, it was nice knowin y'all.

snakeweasel · August 2018

ab348 said:

well that failed. I registered and updated password, but when i try to log in, it tells me authentication failed. Old login still works though.
After you register and it accepts your email and password, it sends you an email that you need to respond to before it authenticates your account. Maybe that didn't happen (yet)?

If that's the case I may not be here much longer as I don't have access to that email any more and Edmund's won't let me change my email so I cannot authenticate my account.

ab348 · August 2018

snakeweasel said:

ab348 said:

qbrozen said:
well that failed. I registered and updated password, but when i try to log in, it tells me authentication failed. Old login still works though.
After you register and it accepts your email and password, it sends you an email that you need to respond to before it authenticates your account. Maybe that didn't happen (yet)?

If that's the case I may not be here much longer as I don't have access to that email any more and Edmund's won't let me change my email so I cannot authenticate my account.

If you go to the main Edmunds page and register with the link on the top right using your current email address you should be fine.

jmonroe · August 2018

snakeweasel said:

ab348 said:

qbrozen said:
well that failed. I registered and updated password, but when i try to log in, it tells me authentication failed. Old login still works though.
After you register and it accepts your email and password, it sends you an email that you need to respond to before it authenticates your account. Maybe that didn't happen (yet)?

If that's the case I may not be here much longer as I don't have access to that email any more and Edmund's won't let me change my email so I cannot authenticate my account.

Again, that will affect me too. If Edmunds uses the email shown in my profile, I'll never get it. Edmunds screwed this up years ago for me so, I'm gone.

jmonroe

stickguy · August 2018

Drama queens, you all are!

Worst case reregister, and start building posts from scratch.

oldfarmer50 · August 2018

sb55 said:

Another Darwin award nominee:

ST. ALBANS, Vt. (WCAX) We have new details about a quick stop robbery that sparked a police chase that eventually ended in St. Albans Bay.

It all started Saturday night when police say Stephen Salyer, 38, of Enosburgh, robbed an Enosburgh Maplefields and ran off. Witnesses had spotted an ankle monitor on the robber, so police were able to get a location on Salyer by using surveillance video and the GPS tracking device on his ankle.

Officers say they tried to pull the car over, but they say Salyer took off and led them on a 30-minute chase. Spike strips were used, but that didn't stop the car, which eventually reached St. Albans Bay. Police say Salyer drove out onto the dock and right into Lake Champlain. The vehicle sank to the bottom and investigators say Salyer got out and started to swim away from his vehicle, further into the lake.

Police eventually caught up with him and he was sent to the hospital for his injuries.

Bail was set at $25,000.

He probably got sugared up on those $4 Maplefields muffins and went crazy.

oldfarmer50 · August 2018

tbirdmarco said:
Going on a job interview in a little while, and another dealer ship Hempstead ford Lincoln so everyone thank you in advance for the comments I’m going to get wishing me luck. Ha ha ha every time I come on here there’s 1 million comments I mean postings and I can never catch up. Just little by little I do try. Have a good day everyone

Be sure to show up in your T-bird. That should impress a Ford dealer.

snakeweasel · August 2018

stickguy said:

Drama queens, you all are! Worst case reregister, and start building posts from scratch.

Well don't you think that Edmund's would have something basic like changing your email working properly?

Or does my email have to be registered with BMW?

ab348 · August 2018

It's odd that you can't change your email right now. My user name of ab348 was my original email name back in the mid-90s and I used that for a number of registrations way back when, including here. A few years ago when I moved to Gmail and dropped that old provider I was able to change my email address used to log in to these forums to the new email address, though I couldn't change my user name in the forums.

jmonroe · August 2018

ab348 said:
It's odd that you can't change your email right now. My user name of ab348 was my original email name back in the mid-90s and I used that for a number of registrations way back when, including here. A few years ago when I moved to Gmail and dropped that old provider I was able to change my email address used to log in to these forums to the new email address, though I couldn't change my user name in the forums.

Now hear this:

I created an Insider Account using my correct email. I then did some browsing about changes and shown below in BOLD is what I saw when I asked about changing my email here (third question, https://help.edmunds.com/hc/en-us/articles/115011994448-Your-Edmunds-Insider-account):

How do I change the email address or password associated with my Edmunds Insider account? Your email address cannot be updated once you create an account. To change your password, log in to your Insider account and click on the gear icon on your dashboard (or jump directly to your settings using this link).

So, from that it looks like Edmunds expects you to keep your present email and never change it. REALLY EDMUNDS ????

So much for seamless.

jmonroe

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