Originally posted by: Beau
http://www.prohosting.com/upgradepromo.htm
Seems pretty hot. Prohosting has excellent tech support, uptime, speed.... I've used them for a while for my more critical clients because I know they're a bit more reliable than those "budget" hosts.... anyway...
When you sign up, be sure you use the promo code that's on that page.
Or better yet, just plain don't sign up - in fact, don't do business at all with this shady company.
I signed up, probably a couple of years ago, for their FREE webhosting (ad-supported) services.
Never really did that much with the site, used it for a couple of pages, and webcam a couple of times. Not a lot of bandwidth or storage ever used.
Some time ago, when the internet-advertising market tanked, lo and behold, I get an INVOICE. Yes, an
INVOICE, for services that I signed up for, for
FREE according to the original terms.
They even sent me an overdue reminder the month after. I was SO !@#%!#@%$ heated that they would have dared to out-of-the-blue send me an invoice, and potentially affect my credit like that. I calmed down slightly, after I realized that they didn't actually have any of my personal financial details.
I wouldn't have minded, if they had: notified me clearly, that they could no longer provide free ad-supported webhosting, due to the downturn in revenue from the internet advertising market. I would have understood, and would have simply told them to cancel my account.
I would have understood, if they had also explicitly given me the choice of options at that point, to terminate my account, or ask me to sign up for a paid webhosting account. Again, I would have understood.
But the fact is, they chose to avoid the moral and legal "high road", of clearly notifying the customer and giving them the choice of actions to proceed. Instead, they acted like complete, immoral, and in some states probably illegal,
SCAMMERS, and sent me an invoice for services that were initially offered on terms of being
free.
This is no different than those people that try to get your credit card from, say, TigerDirect, by a "free magazine subscription offer", and then signing you up for a monthly recurring charge on your CC bill, that you can't get rid of unless you cancel your card.
This type of
outright, sleazy, scammer behavior , is why I will never, and
strongly urge others, to
avoid doing business with ProHosting at any cost.
Oh, and if ProHosting's lawyers happen to read this - yes, I still have copies of those INVOICE e-mails that were sent to me. This is all true and provable.
In the end, would
you trust a dishonest company like that, with
your business?
I wouldn't, and neither should you.
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