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2021 Black Friday / Cyber Monday Official Megathread + Flash Deals ⚡
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Yeah, it was cloudcone where I gave up on the flash deals, and who I was confusing HostCram with originally (my bad for not checking before posting).
Me & my team still working.
People didn't pay mistakenly 99% of the times. Most of the refunds are of BFCM sales and other plans like KVM-3C, LXC-3G, LXC-6G, KVM-8G.
They ordered big plans, paid for a year and asked for refund a few hours later.
that's terrible. and some are left without.
bring them back and say "No Refunds"
Oh, in that case a certain proportion of that is people who realized the routing to china isn't good/it's blocked by the firewall.
Then the rest probably found better deals elsewhere and had buyer's remorse.
well done proving you dont know the difference
you lack even the vocabulary and basic knowledge to have the conversation. it would be interesting otherwise.
QED
QED again. Not a communist but try another lucky dip. if you can find words.
Agreed
We had a lot of refunds too, and a lot of "reservations".
Similar numbers as @Shakib too, but since we are from Finland quite certain our fees were even higher as anything essentially is abroad and goes by the hidden higher trx fees. Sucks. Looks like trx fees have also increased, saw some had very high for the transaction sizes.
Then indeed like someone said, all that time spent processing and checking things as well.
Oh well, that just goes with the territory of special deals etc.
Wow, insults!
and more insults! Argumentum ad hominem.
Good job with the insults and trying to poison the well. Good job. Thanks for making the point.
Well atleast one thing we can agree; Waste of time.
Can I has teh legendary dealz that hav been refunded?
Pot meet kettle
Ummmmmmmm..............
I'll buy you a beer sometime, we can talk something more interesting ;P
bloody shits
Feel sad for you. For BF/CM sales providers should consider "No refunds" or asking for fees. Otherwise we won't have these legendary deals.
If that's the $7/yr KVM-3C, then I think we'd all like to take that off your hands!
@Shakib if you have any "spillovers" because of this , im sure many legit members will be willing to take them up.
Yeah. One of the reasons why I like HostHatch. They have strict no refunds/ no transfer policy on their special plans. The stocks last longer, since people are aware of this and they pick up only what they need.
Many people brought KVM-3C at $84/Year. We are out of stock.
Yeah, there was one specific deal, I can't remember which, but the provider said something about sorting one guy out who'd got to the end of the payment thing and the discount was taken away. Suddenly 10 more people mysteriously had exactly the same problem, and like a star, the provider gave them all the deal even though only a few (maybe even one, I can't remember) was even offered originally. I couldn't help but think at least some of the people were just taking advantage of the provider going above and beyond.
Wtf is that quote, I thought I was going insane for a second
I think that was the dedicated server deal, by Level one servers?
It was a deal offered during flash sales
Kinda interested if @PulsedMedia @Shakib would start refunding money minus the fee (let's say 5%?) how many of those would end as chargebacks and generate even more manual work / fees. This is very tricky topic and going straight out "NO REFUND POLICY" is probably the best way - you can still do it for manual coupons fuckups if people nice... but for normal orders? Hell no.
I wans't talking about the deal, look closely at the name in the quote
You’d think after 10 years on this forum, people could manage to get my fucking username right.
oh yeah lol
A lot of people were complaining that the coupon codes just disappeared from their orders after it'd already been confirmed. In these cases, it'd probably be quite hard to sort out who had made a genuine mistake and who was trying to play the system.
I think the real issue is that most people would buy something they don't really need if it's on a special offer, but if they have to pay the full price, their sense prevails and they realise that they don't actually need it after all.
If you accidentally buy something at full price, believing it to be cheaper, then even if the seller doesn't offer a refund, the credit card company would probably allow a chargeback, which would probably cause even more hassle for the seller as they're not initiating the refund.
I'm not sure if one can run into the same issue with Blesta, but I happened to me that WHMCS shows the correct amount during checkout and removes the coupon silently after entering my CC details and confirming the payment. In that case, the full amount gets deducted from the card.
I think they had the no refunds policy all along but they didn't have the no transfer policy. But last year, they had some really insane deals and some crazy flash sales on top of that. Not too long after BF, you started seeing people with buyer's remorse trying to sell/transfer their services at hosthatch and eventually hosthatch said no more transfers.
I guess that was me accidentally trimming the wrong part of a quote when replying. Sorry about that!
EDIT: ooooh actually, I think I was replying to another message, then abandoned it, but the reply pre-populated with my existing reply and then I mis-edited it...
LET, post-BF/CM:
FAT32 is sleepin?
FAT32, post-BF/CM: