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Globat domain registration
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| I used globat.com to register a few domain names because of the price
several months ago. Today I recieved an email from globat thanking me
for upgrading to their $40/month hosting plan. Not knowing what was
going on I looked online at my Visa statement, and sure enough, there
was a $40 charge from globat.
I found an email from them dated a few weeks ago. The contents were to
the extent of: I would be automatically upgraded to a hosting plan (I
guess they have my CC# from buying the domains) and if I didn't want to
upgrade, I needed to opt-out. They expect me to read junk mail?
Stay away from globat.com. Did this happened to anyone else recently?
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| Martin Harran 2007-01-27, 11:07 pm |
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"Alex" <clarinot1@XXXXXXXXXX> wrote in message
news:1168571225.106173.128830@a75g2000cwd.googlegroups.com...
>I used globat.com to register a few domain names because of the price
> several months ago. Today I recieved an email from globat thanking me
> for upgrading to their $40/month hosting plan. Not knowing what was
> going on I looked online at my Visa statement, and sure enough, there
> was a $40 charge from globat.
> I found an email from them dated a few weeks ago. The contents were to
> the extent of: I would be automatically upgraded to a hosting plan (I
> guess they have my CC# from buying the domains) and if I didn't want to
> upgrade, I needed to opt-out. They expect me to read junk mail?
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> Stay away from globat.com. Did this happened to anyone else recently?
Do a charge back with yor CC company as you didn't explicitly authorise the
deduction.
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Steve wrote:
> Any company that does something like that deserves many chargebacks.
> The stones on them, I'd never do something like that to customers,
> looks like a fast way to kill a business. Considering not only will
> they lose that $40, but also another $25 per chargeback maybe the end
> result will be a net loss and they'll never pull a stunt like it again.
Although, if your domain is still registered with them, they might
cancel, delete, suspend, or take ownership of it in retaliation, and
they may even threaten to sue you or ruin your credit rating, based on
some statement buried somewhere in their terms of service that they'll
claim you are violating.
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Dan
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| Well a $39.95 refund appeared in my statement, so it looks like they
went through with the refund.
However, I recommend that others do not do business with their company.
Their newsletters that you can't opt-out of don't really make their
image better. Rest assured, I'll be transferring my domain to another
registrar at the end of this reg. period.
Alex
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| Steve 2007-01-27, 11:08 pm |
| clarinot1@XXXXXXXXXX wrote in message news:<1168995914.979518.63490@
51g2000cwl.googlegroups.com> ...
> Well a $39.95 refund appeared in my statement, so it looks like they
> went through with the refund.
Thats good, so they aren't all bad.
> However, I recommend that others do not do business with their company.
> Their newsletters that you can't opt-out of don't really make their
> image better. Rest assured, I'll be transferring my domain to another
> registrar at the end of this reg. period.
It was definitely a sleezy move to send a mail effectively saying "if
you don't say no we're going to charge $40 to your card to upgrade you
to something you didn't request".
/steve
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Packetderm, LLC
Web hosting, SSH Tunneling, Proxies, Advanced E-Mail, Privacy
http://www.cotse.net/areyoureadyforus.html
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Alex wrote:
> I used globat.com to register a few domain names because of the price
> several months ago. Today I recieved an email from globat thanking me
> for upgrading to their $40/month hosting plan. Not knowing what was
> going on I looked online at my Visa statement, and sure enough, there
> was a $40 charge from globat.
> I found an email from them dated a few weeks ago. The contents were to
> the extent of: I would be automatically upgraded to a hosting plan (I
> guess they have my CC# from buying the domains) and if I didn't want to
> upgrade, I needed to opt-out. They expect me to read junk mail?
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> Stay away from globat.com. Did this happened to anyone else recently?
bullshit ;)
i hate to play the devils advocate, but shit, somebody's got to to do
it.
you "found" an email dated a few weeks ago?
wtf? do you not pay attention?
every domain i buy they try to do the addons and if i don't pay
attention, the default checked box tries to do the addon future service
for the discounted domain.
so. what happended?
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| On 16 Jan 2007 18:29:35 -0800, "Gwin" <gwin@mindless.com> scrawled:
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> every domain i buy they try to do the addons and if i don't pay
> attention, the default checked box tries to do the addon future service
> for the discounted domain.
Who are you doing business with? None of the businesses I deal with
pull that shite, and if they did I would be their ex-customer.
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MGW
I have yet to see a problem, however complicated, which when you looked at
it in the right way, did not become still more complicated. ~ Poul Anderson
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MGW wrote:
> On 16 Jan 2007 18:29:35 -0800, "Gwin" <gwin@mindless.com> scrawled:
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> Who are you doing business with? None of the businesses I deal with
> pull that shite, and if they did I would be their ex-customer.
godaddy
netfirms
most do, especially when they're running specials.
addon options with some having a default check on the basic hosting for
them ;)
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| Kim André Akerĝ 2007-01-27, 11:08 pm |
| Gwin wrote:
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> MGW wrote:
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> godaddy
How so? Every time I've ordered a domain with them, I always select the
option to point it to the name servers I specify. That option is about
50 pixels (give or take) above the "Continue to the next step" button,
and right below the "Park the domain with us" option. Besides, you also
have the shopping cart at the end showing exactly what you're about to
order. You'd have to really not pay any attention during the order
process to order anything but just the domain registration.
--
Kim André Akerĝ
- kimandre@NOSPAMbetadome.com
(remove NOSPAM to contact me directly)
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| On 17 Jan 2007 06:59:27 GMT, Kim André Akerĝ
<kimandre@NOSPAMbetadome.com> scrawled:
> Gwin wrote:
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> How so? Every time I've ordered a domain with them, I always select the
> option to point it to the name servers I specify. That option is about
> 50 pixels (give or take) above the "Continue to the next step" button,
> and right below the "Park the domain with us" option. Besides, you also
> have the shopping cart at the end showing exactly what you're about to
> order. You'd have to really not pay any attention during the order
> process to order anything but just the domain registration.
And I've never had GoDaddy pull the "if you don't reply to this email,
you'll have this service automatically added to your bill" stunt.
--
MGW
I have yet to see a problem, however complicated, which when you looked at
it in the right way, did not become still more complicated. ~ Poul Anderson
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