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PayPal dispute won't help. PayPal claim might work. Bank dispute may not. Credit card charge back might work.
Yep, Paypal almost immediately closed that ticket. I'm sure they'll know the situation with that seller by now.
The only way to get it back via dispute is an unauthorised charge claim. Its not right to do it but i would say 75% of the time it works.
It's time to open LowEndInvestigations.com
This is what i got from emailing the Paypal email
"Hello,
I used to work for UptimeVPS however left 1-2 weeks before I heard all this happened. I am not in control of the payments I can only hope you get your money back.
-Ash"
Something seems fishy here.
I wonder if he (she? xD) is crying so hard...
Maybe they got scammed too? xD
Thats BS. And he is a terrible liar!
"Hi,
Ken is fully in control of the payments. I no longer have contact details for him.
Regards,
Ash "
Load of bull crap.
I send them an email, lets wait for the response
Here is what i've send:
"Hello,
Are you out of your fucking mind?
Stealing my money!
It's a crime stealing money you know
I want my money back, i already did a claim/dispute on PayPal
Refund my money now
This is just ridiculous, you stopped without any notification
And now what, you guys run away with our money"
Interestingly, both "Ken" and "Ash" always use "Regards". I think they are the same person.
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It's really common to use "Regards"
@xprotocept
Just do it, don't have to send any email like that. Ken or Ash is busy driving the new BMW now.
Anyone contacted Lee Occleshaw through facebook? He may be more talkable.
He also got 3 Names?
Twitter = ashmckiernan
PayPal = Stephen McKiernan
Email = ashleyjmcrules
I wonder how many people bought VMs from them...
I contacted Lee Occleshaw and now will await a response.
To tell if they are the same person: study their grammar, where they put capital letters etc. Look out for spelling too...
Not much to go on realy. If it was me i would be running Credit Checks/ Fruad checks lmao by now.
Dunno, but maybe thousands of VMs
UptimeVPS where responding in a weird language, which I think was artificial/purposed, to make you think he is someone else (Fraudsters book ch8 page116).
It's possible he wants you to think so, so look for names/tracks/address etc is better method.
You know if people had the money back they paid for the VPS they might be able to hire a P.I. to find these guys then we could have an old fashioned lynching!!!!
People actually paid more than the $7/year?
Quite a few people loaded up like $50+ for 'reserve' which is even more shocking that he couldn't make it work. When he started dropping the price of his 90 EUR/y for 4GB+ RAM down to just 45EUR, I knew they were done.
I paid them ~$8 for 2 VPSs and got 2 months out of them.
The VPS market is so entertaining.
Nah, it's not... just a bit annoying sometimes.
45EUR is expensive too. One thing I noticed was that you could actually change currency to GBP and the 50EUR off became 50GBP off. It worked for USD as well but of course GBP is the best option. So it eventually came down to £83.54-£50=£33.54=$55.53 in PayPal.
And I bought it.
They even didn't check the amount. I was then concerned about it and later sent cancellation request when node charlie was down.
And luckily I received full refund - by PayPal claim though. They promised to issue full refund but now everybody knows they won't unless you dispute/charge back.
per year? :P
I was always wary of a company with the word "uptime" in their name but provides no uptime SLA of any kind.
Their name says Up, what else do you need? :P