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Calin iHostART.Com took our $22.5K and scamming us!
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can I hodl crypto assets OR will the feds knock my door? I need expert advice.
Fuck crypto, it sucks.
Use Hawala for large payments.
So forever more when someone suggests doing business with @Calin we can link this as a warning, of course.
Lot of words btw, wow!
This thread might have run its course. The end is nigh.
The only questions remaining: how and when will @Calin get the provider tag back?
Never, please and thank you. If he gets it back, I'll spend my time letting every potential customer know about all this mess. If they decide to keep doing businesses with him, it's their problem, but they've been warned.
He needs to pass a digital exam on right and wrong
He knows what's right and wrong, he just chooses wrong
Trust me. People have been warned many times before. You are going to waste your precious time.
As soon as the money is released to buy new BilohBucks?
I just don't understand in this whole story why he refuses to refound [sic.] the 22k for the scam of not providing the offered service. Nobody said it must be exactly that particular 22k the bank has frozen. Buy new cryptos for 22k and send them back the same way received. Or do your business and simply fullfil the part of the contract and provide the promised service.
Why isn't anyone asking how and when @GoSSDHosting is getting his Host Rep tag back?
Because he won't. Even he accepted the situation in one if his earlier comments; which is why this thread in theory could be closed.
EDIT: I thought you were talking about money. I don't know if he had a provider tag. I never ordered a service from @GoSSDHosting
Well, then he’ll fail the exam
Which exam?
Either the almighty low-end judge deemed him unworthy, or he doesn’t like being "forced" to watch a 40-minute low-end Romanian "gangster" movie.
Funny. @EndlessGravity registers on the day before @GoSSDHosting capitulates, and consistently sprays vitriol against @Calin.
So, a (not really) wild guess:
A company, in particular one probably not making millions in profit (in $) per year, doesn't decide to capitulate - in a war they themselves started! - within minutes. Nope, they ask and discuss with lawyers and consultants, they look into and evaluate diverse approaches to turn it into at least the appearance of a victory ("we decided o just absorb it" anyone?) or at least to not loose.
They started this thread on September 7 and their intention was clearly recognizable: to smear Calin in order to force him into "absorbing" the problems and the expected damage. "reputation destruction" is a very old tactic and basically a form of blackmailing. If the victim doesn't have a very solid defense and clear evidence to show, they'll highly likely take a revenue hit and find themselves confronted with the question whether they shouldn't choose the - supposedly - cheaper path of giving in.
In this case we even have concrete numbers. gossd's plan was to make Calin loose significantly more than about 20000$. And they knew that he was in a sensitive position due to diverse factors, his still ongoing attempt to create a more professional base (e.g. moving into a DC) being one major example.
But alas, their dirty attack, "indian Mafia style hit" probably is a better term than "war", failed. Even worse, the situation risked to turn against themselves. Now, to some online community one can "sell" quite a lot of BS, especially when that BS rides on a somewhat tainted image of the victim - but with a bank, and potentially and even "worse" (for gossd) a public prosecutor, it's a very different game; those people ask for solid, tangible, and credible evidence and trying funny games with them risks to cost lots of money and possibly even ending in jail.
Again, Calin IMO is not squeaky clean. His promises were kind of generously ignorant of relevant laws and rules. But then, that was exactly why gossd approached him. If gossd were, and I don't think they are, a clean company they wouldn't have asked for Calin to deliver what they asked for and what they knew (or at least should have known) to be questionable in the first place ...
But be that as it may, they obviously noted that Calin at the very minimum saw some red lines he wasn't willing to cross and they also saw that, of bloody course, a bunch of Calin or "Romanians in general" haters and/or drama lovers (actually marauders who are only interested in a weird form of entertainment, for which others, aka the community, have to pay the cost) would take their side but that there also are people on LET who want to see evidence and who aren't that easily duped.
So, gossd began to think about how to get out of the quagmire they had created, preferably with as little harm to themselves as possible.
Et voila, on they day before they officially retreated and slid into the grey background, a new user appeared on the stage. And just so happened to continue to hit on Calin ...
While gossd hasn't written any comment since their capitulation declaration.
So I looked a bit closer .... Does my guess match the kind of company gossd is?
Both gossd and 'serverhood' (who share the same phone number) seem to be owned by a indian company/group called 'TechAvenueLabs' in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India, (indian company reg. number UDYAM-TS-02-0066581) according to available info, a micro enterprise with 1-10 employees in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India, incorporated in July 2022. And it is their phone number that gossd tells as their indian one.
That repeats with their USA phone number which 'serverhood', who seems to be only active in the UK so far shares with gossd.
Oh, and how impressive they are! Looking at the websites of both, gossd and their indian "mother", 'TechAvenueLabs', it seems that they run their own data centers, but as bragging with major - and unlike themselves - actually well known names is part of their concept they spill the beans on their "Partners" page, which is full of, lets say not top-tier names, except for two, Equinix (hmmm, why would a mighty 1-10 employees indian company pretending to run their own DCs, need Equinix?) and Cloudf#&%! (whose free services they probably use). And hey, they are real tight partners! In fact, they even have separate pages for them, detailing their "strong partnership" ... with a short blurb (not even mentioning them) from the "partner".
So, it seems my guess above is not far off.
You want a cherry on top? OK, here you go: That indian group also runs "the hosting directory" site, that provides advice on how to find the best hosting provider for you, yes, tailored to you exacts needs. And they explain why they "stand out from the competition", too. Reasons: "We ensure all providers listed are verified and meet quality standards." ( of the neighbours cousine), "All reviews are from genuine users to help you make an informed decision." - well, unless they are from "Admin" who, you probably guessed it, published a copy of his hit piece OP here over there as a "real review" ...
Now, guess, which , of course extremely "verified", provider just so happens to be the best in all their top-10 categories?
For the final giggle: as they seem to be really desperate to turn gossd from a micro enterprise into a small enterprise ... they of course put "A Product Of by GoSSDHosting.com" in the footer of their totally 100% objective, neutral, not at all biased "which provider to chose?" site!
Oh, btw, don't try to look at their indian site which they mention on their .com site. That domain does not even exist (any more?) ...
@GoSSDHosting - why was your "Host Rep" tag removed. Did you request it? Did you receive a warning?
Tsk, it wasn't removed. It was "absorbed"!
The digital exam on right and wrong designed by @sh97
Fun fact: In the "Final Destination" movie series, the 3rd movie in the series titled "The Final Destination" wasn't the last movie of the series.
The 4th movie was The Final Destination.
https://www.imdb.com/list/ls074385780/
@jsg - I was there with you when I believed in HostSolutions not to be a scam. I did mental gymnastics and listened to my emotions.
Now I am no longer with you. The fact of $20k+ was confirmed by @Calin - so you are chasing ghostly arguments. @Calin screwed up and no matter what mental gymnastics you do, nothing is going to change that.
@GoSSDHosting might have his flaws. Yes, it could be an Indian company, but race or country has nothing to do with any of this. Fact is: he paid $20k+ in crypto and received nothing in return. Everything else is irrelevant.
Could have, should have, would have... all that is hypothetical. Money talks.
Well, the LET marketing department has released its first video in the series that will introduce the "gangster" tag, which will be revealed the day Calin gets his provider tag back.
https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/197774/let-a-deep-dive
Just because @Calin is in the wrong doesn't mean @GoSSDHosting is in the right. Just saying.
To be fair no-one know if it's "over yet" or anything or what state the money is currently in. The last update regarding this is here from just a couple of days ago.
Not everything gets sorted out in a couple of days, I've had ticket replies that have taken longer than this whole drama has taken from start to finish.
Well, it seems that actually the customer of gossd transferred the crypto-"currency". But never mind, I told my guess of what happened and how, and I find it all matches up nicely.
Re "indian company". Neither do I care (except for most scammers coming from there it seems) but I do care about an indian company trying to appear as an american and/or european company.
Also, the running a "neutral" hosting advice site in order to make people buy their services smells like "scam". And there's more ...
But again, you see it the way you want and I see it my way.
@iKeyZ
Yes, before judging either way, we need to wait which route @Calin, once he can decide over the money, will decide for. My guess is that he'll either deliver the service (that the payment was for) or refund the money, possibly minus fees, exchange rate changes, etc.
The reason for my take is that I don't think that Calin had criminal intentions. Greed, some lack of experience, biting off more than he can chew, some stupidity even, yes, but criminal intent no.
Whatever, sooner or later we'll see. And then one can judge (if one feels a need to).
If anybody makes a post about @GoSSDHosting accepting funds and not providing service I promise to take it just as seriously as I did this one.
Protect your wealth: The smartest $22K you'll ever spend in Bitcoin.
The parties signed any NDA? Should this "war" be considered defamatory?
But reviews on LET are almost always pure garbage and useless. E.g. Used service for basic use and no issues reported.
That being said, just visiting Ihostart threads would be very illuminating to prospective buyers.