A tale of money-grabbing
From the former Gunnels Collective web forums ...
I'd signed up with Steve about 4 years ago and had a few problems here and there mostly with email server downtimes and beginning in June I started getting multiple emails from Steve at all my email addresses stating that the server my webspace was on was being retired and I had the choice to update to the new lifetime servers for a hefty fee or be down an indetermined amount of time until they could place me on another server and that I may lose some of the features I'd already paid for. I emailed him and told him I could not afford his prices and I don't even have a bussiness site so I don't make money from my site and I also reminded him I had recently paid $199 for renewal and $89 for spam/virus etc.
He then called me June 21 and said that since I was a "long term" user with him that he would give me the new servers and lifetime hosting for just $299. I guess I was pretty stupid as I accepted when I should have ran, not walked away. Needless to say my CC was charged for $299 that day.
After a few days I started having email server downtime again so I emailed him and got no response. On Friday, August 5th my site and email went down and found super.nu all down, email to him bounced and his phone had been disconnected or shut off.
I was amazed to find the wealth of information about his scam activities and now feel even more stupid for not researching him more first. I've now moved to another webhost and after 3 days finally have email back again. I've sent in a form to my CC company disputing the $299 charge and will have to wait and see if I can get it removed (they would do nothing over the phone).
Just a reminder...This guy potentially has everyones passwords for email, ftp etc so when moving to a new host please use new passwords...
I'd signed up with Steve about 4 years ago and had a few problems here and there mostly with email server downtimes and beginning in June I started getting multiple emails from Steve at all my email addresses stating that the server my webspace was on was being retired and I had the choice to update to the new lifetime servers for a hefty fee or be down an indetermined amount of time until they could place me on another server and that I may lose some of the features I'd already paid for. I emailed him and told him I could not afford his prices and I don't even have a bussiness site so I don't make money from my site and I also reminded him I had recently paid $199 for renewal and $89 for spam/virus etc.
He then called me June 21 and said that since I was a "long term" user with him that he would give me the new servers and lifetime hosting for just $299. I guess I was pretty stupid as I accepted when I should have ran, not walked away. Needless to say my CC was charged for $299 that day.
After a few days I started having email server downtime again so I emailed him and got no response. On Friday, August 5th my site and email went down and found super.nu all down, email to him bounced and his phone had been disconnected or shut off.
I was amazed to find the wealth of information about his scam activities and now feel even more stupid for not researching him more first. I've now moved to another webhost and after 3 days finally have email back again. I've sent in a form to my CC company disputing the $299 charge and will have to wait and see if I can get it removed (they would do nothing over the phone).
Just a reminder...This guy potentially has everyones passwords for email, ftp etc so when moving to a new host please use new passwords...
posted by No more Steve Gunnels! at 4:53 pm
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