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Scam, or no scam?
What do you think about this Hetzner/OVH/LeaseWeb reseller? Legit?
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It's interesting that they're selling Kimsufi servers for less than Kimsufi sells Kimsufi's servers....
In a live-chat conversation they told me they had some special discounts from OVH, als they order without VAT, which knocks 20% off of the price.
Ah, there you go then. That's hell of a price difference by percentage.
But yes, they have a very slick looking website, two business addresses, and live-chat staff who speak perfect fluent English, in good grammar. I'll report back when/if they setup my Kimsufi 2G
Neither of those are business addresses or legitimate.
2, Ayios Pavlos & Kadmos Street Wisdom Tower, 3rd Floor Nicosia 1105 Cyprus -- Cyprus company prices | Register a cyprus company, offshore,
3500 South DuPont Highway -- Delaware INCORPORATE CHEAP USA Company Contact Us - Incorporate in Delaware Nevada Incorporating ...
I'm curious as to how they're evading VAT with a UK phone number
There's always dispute if something goes south
@justinb I sherlocked some myself too, found that too.
OMG Constantinos xD
HostFail FTW
lol, my first thoughts.
For those which don't know, Constantinos was HostFai... erm HostRail "CEO".
On a serious note this company address is somewhat fake anyway and belongs to "comprehensive team of highly professional lawyers, accountants and tax consultants based in Cyprus specialises in the registration of International Business Companies (IBCs) and Cyprus holding companies, formerly known as offshore companies." - http://www.registercypruscompany.com/contact/ and so is fake their .us "operational headquarters" address (3500 South DuPont Highway Dover, DE 19901) which belongs to http://www.incserv.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=info.headquarter
edit.
Ah, @justinb already said that. Sorry.
@Spirit hmm, that company provides something like a business address for companies or something? I can't understand what they are doing. Same with the Cyprus company, they set up shell companies in Cyprus for you? I'm confused.
Yes something like that I think. From what I understand you can register "virtual company" with virtual office.
@birdie25 How did you find them?
Seems legit. It's not a fake address :P
This ad on WHT, http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?p=7922217
It's also not THEIR address. In my eyes it's fake address because they stated it as own headquarter address while they use just some virtual service address.
Simplistic Corp, LLC.
3500 South DuPont Highway
Dover, DE 19901
USA
We welcome you to send your letters and other relevant documents to this address.
Okay, it's not their address, but they allow correspondence to be sent there. I'll call that Incserv.com company and ask about them.
@Spirit i've just phoned INCserv.com, and they say that there isn't a company in the state of Delaware by that name. Odd
Thank you for letting us know though it doesn't really surprise me.
You paid with credit card right? If so make sure you have no money in your account when you do a chargeback.
I've paid with PayPal balance.
Anybody else able to access the website?
@SSDNodes omg your site is so pretty. Who designed it?
Thank you! We did most of it ourselves, the logo was recently redone (old logo screenshot: http://www.lowendbox.com/media/images/ssdnodes.jpg)
You should also do web design, then. Perhaps offer free templates to other providers but watermark like every-single-image with your site, haha.
@Naruto That's a great idea, but my real passion is systems administration. Doing the design work was very tedious and I'd rather focus my energy on providing better service. If I had limitless time, I would absolutely consider it
@DotVPS Just for our site. Unfortunately web design is very tedious and requires almost as much work as developing an infrastructure
@SSDNodes - Well, if you ever deadpool there is another market out there for ya'.
@Naruto Ouch
http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/getsimplistic.com
Looks not very nice.
Did they ever finish provisioning your order?
From the looks of the topic on WHT, it was a scam.