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Just to add another data point, I have a server that was on a monthly contact that technically expired a week ago, yet the server is still active. Make of that what you will.
Iirc PayPal chargeback fees usually relate to card funded reversals rather than PayPal disputes. Quite rare. I haven't seen one in years (possibly as anyone who does that will have their PayPal account closed).
He'll be taking a significant hit for any remaining contractual commitments and the current month that he's refunding but I wouldn't anticipate much in the way of chargeback fees.
This aside I wish @hostdoc all the best. We disagreed on some things initially but he's a nice guy. Hope he and his ex customers come out of this without major problems.
Yea, great deals typically means unsustainable deals.
Just to note that I should have spoken of "(PayPal) dispute" in my comments above rather than "(PayPal) chargeback". (I think that what I wanted to say was clear enough, but I mixed up the terminology.)
Let's face the facts. People got scammed just few months ago in BlackBoyfriend deals going fucked.
Now, people got scammed again with "amazing deals".
In short, if you keep falling for the same tricks over and over, there is no hope.
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Ehm, wrong forum. To be fair, small refunds are easy to make. I recall reading some wankers paid 100 bucks to the guy?
lol, whoever you were, please take a step forward, you deserve the pelting we want to give you.
Not surprised, That happened to me early 2019 when he cut me off
You are lucky.
I bought this VPS service on November 6th, 2019 (before BF Event)
A few hours after the email notification from @HostDoc , I sent a ticket for a refund, but to this day, still have not received an answer or a refund, and yesterday I asked for the service cancle, still can not get an answer, last I tried to dispute in Paypal.
Don't forgot with the keygen or its crack
And we have one, £100 invoice, congrats, you win a prize.
1 token for a valuable life lesson, you cannot redeem it as you have already used it.
Guess I'm one of the wankers that just paid 100 bucks to the guy. About $350 to be exact.
I'm not sure if this is a coincidence but @HostDoc initiated a promo of 50% deposit match a few days or weeks before he sent the email of shutting down. I deposited about $200 to get the promo. Aside from that, I prepaid my server with him for one year which was about $150 in December 2019.
Thankfully I got the refund for the deposit BS he pulled. But I haven't gotten the refund for the prepaid service yet.
I guess, the end is nigh.
Whenever I see credit matches like this in the LE market I see it as a 'we need cash and may not have the immediate inventory to sell actual services'.
Francisco
i think the Doc new what he was doing a while ago...
https://mailchi.mp/a89691b9d00a/janurary-sales-2560529
that was from the 8th of January 2020. its convenient that it states at the bottom *Plans advertised are not refundable.
All promotional plans by HostDoc were unrefundable since the launch of Hostdochost.i.ng , so I doubt that’s the case.
Wow.. hate to be someone who paid for a whole year on one of those promo's and got one month of service before being told they were shutting down but no refund for you either btw..
Please keep us posted on how the dispute goes, but if your service was/is still being provided, I'm afraid that it's going to be a bit difficult ...
Still, no refund on a promotional offer reads like you waive your 14/30/whatever day trial period. That seems fair. His own terms say nothing about themselves pulling the plug. In the mail he sent to all customers Hostdoc claims that all customers get a refund.
As for @kennsann, don’t know where you are based but for $350 it might be a good idea to file a lawsuit. Company information and address (might be from a straw man, you’re never sure) can be easily found.
Not worth it, for just $350? But as mentioned, he did refund my $200. I just didn't get my refund of the active contract.
Probably, I'm still under the buyer protection with Paypal, so if he doesn't refund, a dispute is our last recourse. I'm just waiting for everything to really settle down and we all can confirm that the doc had really made a run for it.
I tend to agree, but I can't ignore that it would also be buying him time to run further..
He really needs to make a statement, at this point it's really not looking good for him, if we're giving him the benefit of the doubt.
He's playing somewhat smart. Refund select few for smoothies to give him a benefit of doubt and enjoy the money.
Pretty sure he is reading this thread as well.
That's quite possible.
Just pleased that my services have been up and running up to this point, however..
The Client Area has just gone fubar on me, in that it continually prompts for a login. Plus the virtualizor access is unavailable. Hmm. :-/
Portents?
It's almost certain he's reading this.
Please tell me you got your servers safely rehomed..
For me I havent used it since three days after the announcement. I just place a damned crypto miner to mine me pennies. Just for the hell of it.
Edit: About the paypal dispute, when should anyone file that? Should we wait for the servers or the website to go down?
USA done but tidying up.
OZ site moved but CWP email transfers don't work. Could do with some more details from "old" box but not critical and waiting for @trewq to wake up.
Just in time, methinks. :-|
(Of course, I have remote backups, plus secondary and tertiary, of user stuff. Just handy to get VPS configs, rather than reinventing.)
For 150 USD it’s definitely not worth it. Still, 350 USD would be something the average Dutch person would use their legal insurance for to start a law suit (which probably ends as a settlement). It’s probably deformation from my side.
A couple of months before that announcement, I had a bad feeling staying in with the service I had with them and I'm sort of thankful that I rarely log in to get my info exposed to other client(s) [although doubt it didn't get exposed since my last login was within the range of the issue].
Sad but the run was too good to be true to stay for long.
Hope the current clients got a new good home by now.
Would that have mattered?, if your details were in the DB then it was (un)luck of the draw