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haha,, i m not eric,, i can prove tht very well
You joined January 2nd. Whomever you may be, you're clearly here for the sole purpose of shilling for Velox.
i joined the let to get some ovh servers,,
Or scaring everyone with jail time if you do chargeback..
And you found from all threads here to comment on this one.. right
it’s a reality check about how the banking system actually works.
If you are currently receiving the service you paid for, filing a chargeback is a high-risk move for you, not just the provider.
He might be keeping things running, but the communication with customers has been lacking. As of today, not a single email has been sent to customers, and it's been about two weeks since he took over.
I'm pretty sure he implied at some point that he was working a with a big team, though I can't recall where exactly and I'm too lazy to find it.
You are 100% right, and even those of us who want Eric to succeed have to admit that the communication has been a total mess. Two weeks without a single formal email to the customer base is a massive failure in "Business 101."
It's good that you set the record straight because from the sidelines it certainly seemed as if some snotty forum warrior had scooped up everyone's data and was telling people to shut the fuck up or he'd delete it.
Why do we have some random, no profile pic accounts defending Lewis or Eric or whatever?
When a random person takes over a business, random people will randomly appear to defend him
"The reason you’re seeing accounts like mine speaking up is simple: My service is working perfectly.
While others are focused on the drama, those of us who actually have our systems live and running aren't complaining because we’re getting exactly what we paid for. It’s easy to call people 'random accounts' when our experience doesn't match the negative narrative, but the fact remains that the servers are up.
If your service is down, it’s highly likely because you filed a chargeback. In the hosting industry, a chargeback is an automatic trigger for account suspension. You can't expect a provider to keep your data online after you’ve forcibly taken back the money used to pay for that server space. If you want your service to work, stop the 'legal' games and let the guy actually do the job of keeping the network stable."
Then shut the fuck up and keep using your server and dont escalate things any further. Let whoever want to chargeback, stop defending some random ass guy (if you are not that guy yourself).
If someone does chargeback or not, it’s on them. No one is taking away money from your wallet, if you are not Lewis or Edward itself of course.
No, this is not how it works. Banks do their own assessment and decide how to proceed. If the customers are right, they charge them back, otherwise they reject the request and that's all.
How can you have any faith that your services will remain up in the long term? The only people running anything mission critical on Velox are those who have a long term deal which they paid for using a method with which a refund/chargeback is not an option. That "team" is a shit show. There is verifiable evidence that Eric straight up deleted accounts that had not charged back and had not even requested a refund.
"I’ll speak up as much as I want when people are trying to burn down the house I’m currently living in.
You say 'no one is taking money from your wallet,' but that’s exactly what a mass wave of chargebacks does. How do you think the servers stay on? Eric uses the company funds to pay the data center and the power bill. If you and a hundred other people file fraudulent chargebacks for services that are still online, the merchant account gets frozen, the data center doesn't get paid, and my server gets shut down along with yours.
So yes, it is my business. You’re not just 'getting your money back' from a 'random guy'; you are actively sabotaging the infrastructure that the rest of us are still using. If you want out, cancel your service and walk away, but stop trying to tank the entire provider just because you're mad at the previous owner. Some of us actually have work to do."
Eric has stated from the very beginning that he holds zero of Velox previous liabilities. Why do you think chargebacks will impact him in any way? In his own words, he does not have access to the previous Velox merchant accounts.
"why is that guy putting quotes around all his text?"
You’re thinking about bank accounts; Eric is thinking about infrastructure. Even if he doesn't have the old merchant account, he’s using the same IPs, the same domains, and the same data center contracts. When a business is hit with a massive wave of chargebacks, the entire brand gets blacklisted by payment processors and flagged by upstream providers.
If the Velox name becomes toxic to banks and data centers, they will terminate the service for the whole company, not just the people who charged back. Eric is trying to keep the servers running on a new foundation; if everyone starts pulling the floor out from under him, the data center pulls the plug, and we all lose our data. It’s not about 'Lewis's money' anymore, it's about keeping the network alive.
Benthost LLC is not using old Velox Media’s PayPal or Stripe account, so how come chargebacks would hit Benthost LLC?
Eric (aka Benthost) said many times that he won’t honour the deadpool deals. So, I wouldn’t trust Eric to keep my service online.
Why should I wait 6 months to see if my service will stay up or not when my chargeback window expires?
It doesn't matter whose PayPal it is, If you claw back the money for the service you're currently using, you become an unpaid customer. No provider on earth is going to keep hosting your data for free while you take the money back.
Those deadpool deals are exactly what killed the business in the first place, Eric isn't being untrustworthy, he’s just doing the basic math that Lewis ignored so the whole thing wouldn't just vanish. If you want to charge back and have your service terminated right now, go ahead. But don't blame the provider for reliability issues when you're the one stopping the payment. some of us actually want to stay online and not have to move our data for the third time this month.
This is all complete nonsense.
You've been here for 3 days. Who are you exactly?
@coinmunch are you giving any guarantee that Eric aka Benthost won’t cancel any 3 year deals in upcoming months. Do you personally accept to compensate if people’s services go down because Eric aka Benthost decides to end deals?
If not, then once again shut the fuck up and let people do whatever they want. You are trying to stop people from charging back because you don’t want your deadpool deal to get affected.
Also, you must be a total idiot if you have some production project hosted on Velox Media both on new and old company. It was proved that there is no single accurate information about the old company, so you must be mentally challenged to host anything important on Velox.
But again, its your own money and time so do whatever you like but stop telling others what to do.
I’m just a guy who joined a few days ago because I was actually looking for some specific OVH server deals and this forum seemed like the best place to find them. I’m only speaking up now because I have servers here that are currently working fine, and I don't want to see the whole network get nuked because people are being emotional about Lewis.
Attacking the age of my account is just a distraction because you don't have a real argument. It doesn't matter if I've been here three days or three years, the math is the same. If people keep pushing for mass chargebacks, they are going to force the provider to shut down the whole network, and then we all lose our data. I’m just a customer who wants to keep his VPS online. That’s literally it.
I wouldn't even host @emgh and @Rubben 's dicks on VeloxMedia!
But the merchant is gone with the money, its not like every chargeback take money from Eric or whoever is this guy.. Even Eric said he dont care if someone do chargeback or not. I dont know why you even defending it. Except if you are Lewis. You guys cant keep your facts straight.
totally agree
Nobody on a forum can guarantee what a provider does in six months, and asking for personal compensation is just a silly distraction. We aren't in a courtroom, we're in a hosting discussion,
I'm not stopping anyone from doing anything.
If you're so sure it's a scam, then leave, But don't get mad when people point out that your "burn it all" approach is exactly what forces a provider to pull the plug on everyone, I'm looking out for my uptime, and you're looking for a fight.
No, we simply hate scammers and we do what we do. If we dont do it it will be on repeat every year.. Now we have it on every 2 years.