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To put it plainly, Michael Spears is a friend and ex-coworker of mine at Arvixe. Me and him along with a few others started XFuse but the others soon had to go in other directions. Micheal Spears is not Jonny Nguyen, I promise you guys that. He is friends with Jonny, however, he's a customer as well. Jonny is now no longer able to do anything public and I guess that's one of the ways he was trying to get through it. I've made it known to Jonny that I'm very pissed off that everything I'm trying to accomplish with this acquisition is being unraveled because of someones stupidity and I'm not going to take it. I don't want him involved in anything but I was calculating costs and we have a lot of inventory that we needed to get rid of. Never did I think this moron would send the email like he did.
Listen guys, I know you think this is a smoke screen, but any of you can add me to skype and talk to me directly. I'm not screwing people or scamming people. I'm trying to fix things and I have made a huge leap forward in the past few days and I believe that this will be a good thing. I know you don't "know me", but I've been here for a while and I'm not one person who will screw you or scam you. I don't work that way. Just give me some time and everything will be ok.
Funny, neither does 99% of the other posts. All conjecture. You yourself even posted So it seems pretty clear then. ... to be fair it seems like arguing over the colour of sh***.
How close are you to 'this isn't worth the fucking trouble'?
If you opted out, then you should not have heard from them again. It does not matter if it is a one-off announcement or advertising or both. It is both unethical and a violation of the law in the US. The law is called the CAN-SPAM Act. See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAN-SPAM_Act_of_2003
The details are worth reading. Here is one excerpt:
Not close, as I know the benefit of this. I just have to get though the half of the doubters here and make it work. It's simple. I've never backed down from a challenge I knew I could win. It's just some people that cannot understand or see the ability for something to change. I'll make it work. I'll rid you guys of hearing from Nuggets lol. Just have to give me some time. Can't fix everything in a day.
Well this is turning into quite a drama.
I still wish someone could confirm if my data is or is not in the GVH db right now, shame nobody seems to give a damn to answer mails.
It's GVH, what did you expect?
@XFS_Duke can you explain the current situation/state? It seems like nothing has been finalized and Jon is an "interim managerial assistant" but you already have some kind of access to the WHMCS and are able to remove staff and tell Jon what to (not) do. How can you have such an amount of power over GVH when nothing is finalized?
@XFS_Duke
I think you should stop talking like you doing a favor to everyone. No one was forced to do business with GVH, you are not saving no one, what you ate doing is taking advantage of a business opportunity that will bring YOU financial benefits.
If people don't want to deal with GVH they can do business with any if the other hundreds of VPS providers, including your brand.
You want people to see you as an honest guy? Then be honest.
GVH customer are in a jam. Atm they wont even know what will happen to their plan when the renewal comes up as you keep dodging to explain what plans will be discontinued and how. In a clear way.
Actually they were pretty clear about that:
I thought he was from Illinois. At least, he's always going on about GVH being an "Illinois Corporation".
Yes, I'm aware one can easily register out of state, but I don't think I've ever heard that there were special advantages to Illinois, hence I assumed he was in IL.
You know...J-Nugs, the Winning Illin' CEO.
That not what the Duke from Xfuse is saying on this topic. I suggest for you to read the topic.
I'm being as honest as possible. I'm keeping all plans that make a profit. However, anything $3/year to $5 per year will be audited based on the plan. I'll be sending out emails to customers with those plans soon. I believe I've found a way to make most of them work though. All of that is still pending.
The current state is that I'm working on getting everything internally fixed. I have full control over most things at this point. I'm slowly taking things over and kicking people as I need. It's a matter of trust as far as why I have the control that I have now.
That was a direct copy/paste from a statement made by GVH and XFS: http://i.imgur.com/rboE5La.png
@XFS_Duke Thanks for the clarification.
What you are saying is what "you" think is going to be "better" for everyone, which may or may not be the case.
I don't think anyone who buys services from GVH is really looking for reliability or sustainability, but just being cheap and look for low prices (this is LOW end talk after all). To me it seems @XFS_Duke could bring us better services, but he could also be charging more and provide even worse service (again because I don't know him). And in this process, I don't even have a say of whether I want to get my information passed on to him and have my VPS being taken care by him.
Like what I said, he is legal to do that, but using a trick to get by privacy policy and bulk purchase clients' personal information without the consent of the clients, is something that as a client I am not comfortable with.
Would be nice to have an opt-out feature, but then again, those data are out there anyways thanks to some disgusting and sickening people who enjoys the fun of hacking into others' client DB.
Call me a doubter. Challenge is good, but trust is hard.
I am perplexed that @XFS_Duke is acquiring only the customers, but not acquiring or at least taking full control of the GVH brand, website, etc. It leaves open the question of what will happen afterwards. The best predictor of future behavior is past behavior. Will Jon and others at GVH resume their bizarre, unethical behavior in the near future? What would prevent it?
Unless @XFS_Duke imposes long term contractual restrictions on Jon and GVH, I predict that @XFS_Duke and many other unsuspecting victims are due for (not!) unexpected trouble. Frankly, based on what I have repeatedly witnessed at LET and elsewhere, I wonder why @XFS_Duke would trust Jon and the others at GVH to honor the terms of any signed contract. In my opinion, enforcement becomes academic unless trusted third parties (e.g., escrow) are involved, with terms that include easily imposed penalties for non-compliance. Just wait and see.
How does a company that rents from another provider have "idle inventory" -- you simply cancel the server and stop paying for it, no?
If you're still seriously going to acquire GVH assets after this, you need to do so quickly and make sure Johnny stops doing anything he is doing now. He's an idiot, you knew that from the beginning. Put a leash on it.
Skylar, you tell that to Jonny... lol Been that way for a few months now.
Actually here's a thing; @XFS_Duke have you had any direct contact with Lance?
Nekki, I have yes.
I genuinely thought he didn't exist, thanks.
LOL. Not banned, becuase I ain't Jonny.
That's not your real name though, right?
It appears to be: http://michaelkspears.com/
@XFS_Duke not sure if that's too early but can you help with my GVH dedicated server down ?
Not sure if it's being affected due to the transition as i haven't faced any downtime in last 6-8 months ob that server & it has been running well. Already submitted a ticket but not sure if Jonny & his support staff still pay any attention after this announcement.
If you're still seriously going to acquire GVH assets after this, you need to do so quickly and make sure Johnny stops doing anything he is doing now. He's an idiot, you knew that from the beginning. Put a leash on it.
No idea why people think XFS are here to save people from plight that GVH? As far as I am concerned, this is a pure business decision and last time I checked, XFS is not a charity.
It make sense for him to acquire the clients and try to offer them a basically "free" period of service at a loss and hopefully some, if not all clients will come back as XFS clients. However it makes little business sense for XFS to get all the hardware as they have already have their own and are probably more confident with their own set up.
At the end of the day, XFS is not here to save anyone but to make money. If you need to find a savior, join a religion might be a better idea than looking in the LEB market. Whatever happen to GVH/Jonny afterwards? It is none of their business.
Lol real-life pr0n star name.
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Yea. That's my website, and Michael Spears is my legal name.
@Nekki, not like the porn star names of your VPS accounts eh? Lol
Guys, please calm down. Michael is a real person and I have him on Skype. No need to worry about this. Duke has asked him to stop relaying messages from Jonny, which is why he was banned initially. He has agreed to no longer do that so we're fine.