Cheating By Performancehosting.net
Mar 3, 2008
i am writing this thread for cheating behavior of this company:
performancehosting.net. We are a dedicated server provider in Singapore. Performancehosting is one of our reseller. And rob (tikvah7777@hotmail.com) is their sale person or CEO. I believed their company is targeting Indonesia customer, thus servers in Singapore is perfect speed to there. Performance Hosting used to be good and reliable customer. Their billing cleared well before November 2007. However everything turned sour recently when we clearing all overdue payments and implement new billing system. Performance Hosting owed us total 1635USD. On 19th February 2008, we filed two money request in paypal ( this is because Rob requested me to send money request in paypal, they do not want us to tell them to pay on msn) for two servers overdue charged. However, until 21st , we still did not get the payment. Thus we sent one email to remind them. On 22nd , their billing department replied requesting further info on these two servers billing. We replied immediately. After that they no response again. On 25th after our massive email requesting, their billing department answered again asking us to bill them month by month. We agreed, noting that we are implementing new billing system which will make this much easier. On 25th our patient wore out, we sent email again ....
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Sep 21, 2008
Found some in WHT ads forum, provide 800 GB space and 8000GB bankwitch. Other companies are similar offer. I talked with them, and ask: "Do you really provide 800 GB space?" they replied, yes.
Then I told them I am going to order. I have a 600GB sized website want to move into it and planed finish moving in 3 weeks to 1 month, then they just left me there, never had one word, so frustrating.
Asked a few more, and got similar result.
Are they real companies with real ads? If not, Why WHT allow false ads listed in there and waste us time.
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Apr 6, 2008
There is a lot I know about godaddy and I also wrote some on my own website, but it's long so I'll post only one issue here. This company is being very dishonest. They pretend to be the cheapest one in the market, but they charge you extra for so many reasons. For example, it's the only company I know who charges 25 cents more per domain per year than the price advertised. It doesn't matter what's their excuses, ICANN, SHMICANN, they advertise one price and they charge you another. Let’s begin with that. (I think I might saw they changed it to 20 cents, but it doesn’t matter. 5 cents don’t make them honest).
Also with web hosting, they offered me an incredible price of about US$ 3 dollars per month, and even gave me a discount for paying in advance for two years (24 months) and I paid only $2.50 per month (about $60 for 24 months). They had a plan for 5GB and also another plan for 100GB which was something like $6 per month and I didn’t need it. Why pay for 100GB when I need only 5? Actually I could use 10 but I don’t need 100 so I paid about $60 (don’t remember the cents) for 24 month.
Now, I was using their web hosting for backup and I wrote a script which will do it automatically and it happened that I used more disk space, something below 300MB which I calculated to be only 6% of the 5GB I asked. I didn’t even asked them to use extra disk space but when I used more disk space they sent me and email and then after a few days (I think about 5 days) they charged me extra of something like $6.79 per 100MB per month. Actually I was away from home and didn’t have a computer and when they wrote me about it I thought they were charging me extra of $6.79 for 100GB (Gigabytes!) and not Megabytes and when they wrote me they charge it 3 times I thought they meant 3 months. I still didn’t need it and I asked them to cancel it but they asked me to remove files and I was very busy with other things (actually I’m not a full time webmaster) so eventually it took me about one month and I removed the extra files, but they still charged me with extra of $20.37 per month (if I remember the cents… I never forget people who cheat me) and when I wrote them they also asked me to enter their website and remove the extra disk space myself, and when it didn’t work they asked for screen copies and I had to send them so many emails (actually it took me a few months because I was very busy with other things) and eventually I called them from my mobile phone (my Skype didn’t work properly) and after speaking to their representative he agreed to refund me most of the charges except one, he still insisted they have the right to charge me the extra $20.37 for using 6% more of their disk space for less than one month.
Now you can do the calculation yourself! I paid about $2.50 for 5GB per month (about $60 for 24 months) and they charged me extra $20.37 for 300MB which is $339.50 for 5GB or more than 100 times their regular price! Actually they charged me 4 times $20.37 which is more than $80 and the whole deal with them was $60 for 24 months! Actually if you check the prices of their “extended” web hosting it’s something like 100GB for about $6 per month (if I remember correctly) and if I paid $6.79 per 100MB extra then I would probably pay $6,790 which is more than 1000 times of their regular price!
I know a lot more but I don't want to post long posts here so I put some of it on my website. There are also other companies such as Google, they displayed "Action canceled" on my website www.speedywhois.com (currently .net) instead of their ads ("adsense"). I put a copy on my personal homepage with more details and I would like to know where I can discuss google adsense and other companies related to webmasters.
I hope this website is not affiliated with godaddy and this post will not be deleted. I don't want the $20.37 but I want you to know they are ripping you off. charging 100 to 1000 times the regular price is theft, it's like if they offer you a cup of coffee (or actually force you to take it) and then charge you $6,000 for the cup. I never asked to pay $20.37 per month and all I agreed to pay was about $2.50 per month and the extra $20.37 is for 6% extra disk space I used (slightly less) so they are ripping me off!
If you want to see details and proof then please see this post and the following posts: ....
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