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VolumeDrive aka Quadix Finally Disabled On WHT
ViolentInjection
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http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=1669963
WHT finally disabled the scammer.
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Read through that thread last night. Glad the OP got his money back. At least there's some justice in the world and I genuinely hope quadix/volumedrive take a huge hit in sales because of it.
afaik the op did not get the money yet, the paypal refund is 'pending'
Likely already transferred the funds to their bank account.
Francisco
It's not that simple... I read mot-a-mot the WHT thread. First of all, OP did an extremely stupid mistake: he paid $20K instead of $200. Paypal has three stages in confirm button until the money goes out. He should be more careful. He opened a dispute before trying to solve the issue with his provider.
Of course, Quadix owners did not handle this properly at all! Did they want to keep the money? I doubt because if they really did, then, they are extremely stupid. They would lose the case in any court and they would be arrested for fraud. Not to mention that the bad publicity could (can) kill entirely their business. And they are not new in the market...
But they should work much better and faster to resolve the issue. And some of their responses in their mails, are... What to say? Crappy...
You should think something similar when paying a corp thru a bank account: Let's say, I pay an LTD with accounting dptm., lot;s of employees and a Board of Directors. I did a mistake and overpaid x100 what should I pay to them. Returning of the money is not that simple. If an employ or, even the chief of accounting dpt. just give an order the money to be returned, he would committed a corporate crime. There is a standart procedure to validate the error and return the money, in real companies. It;s not just the press of a button in a web browser.
Just my 2 cents
scammer, all of his execuse didn't make any sense. I suspect they will create another company to sell on WHT
I've had someone pay me with "two extra 0's at the end" & I sure as hell didn't keep the money.
Not sure where VolumeDrive is located, but spending money that you know isn't yours is usually a criminal offence.
Finally... ;-)
They wanted to keep the money, they fall into the 'extremely stupid' category.
If you're doing business with them, get the fuck outta there ASAP. A (probably big) source of new clients was just cut off with their account being disabled.
I'm, I'm ... speechless ... now THAT is fraud! 16,000 IPs for one server how can this be real... fuck them.
plus bandwidth allocation 20 gbps lol
Note the shit attempt to doctor the billing periods for all those items they added (see the date range for first item on list vs the rest)
they are trying to show that customer added those items to single server for running month only
It disgusts me that they tried to pull this crap - especially when the guy has been a valid customer for a good amount of time.
The amount of unanswered responses dodging the question is great. There is no ownership, or even attempt to explain.
The line items don't even match the same formatting/spelling.
Francisco
Jesus that’s disgraceful - surely that warrants a ban from LET too?
I called @jbiloh on it in the cest pit based on his own words. I'd hope so - https://www.lowendtalk.com/discussion/comment/2384276/#Comment_2384276
Why would you ask Jon? @Jarland runs LET.
Yeah, VD/Quadix have always been shady. Plenty of proof around. They do deserve to be banned. Such assholes.
Scary thing. He must have millions in his paypal to make such a mistake. When I send $5 I check it 10 time not to send $6.
Karma
What did you guys expect anyway? Its the same company that ran off from one datacenter without paying bills and stole customers colocated hardware in the progress? Even this one server in the case could be stolen hardware for all we know.
Grinding off all the service tags on them Dell's!
Francisco
I'm just amazed they weren't banned before for that incident few years back.
Very inhumane of them.
shameful of them...
Amazing that they seemed to think they'd get away with it. Talk about ballsy!
He informed them about the mistake and had no reply for nearly a week before proceeding to open a dispute on PayPal. The invoice was on the 15th of August, dispute opened on the 22nd of August.
The worst part is that this may not be over yet. Until he has the funds and it's not in a pending state then this is still ongoing. I agree it was a stupid mistake on his behalf.
Even with banning them they're cheap enough that people will ignore all the shady things they've done and continue purchasing from them.
VD is a popular host for DDOS since they "forget" to block spoofing.
Francisco
Yeah, I've heard that too.
From an accounting point of view i can see the refund taking a while. I never worked for a company that would refund thst amount without the funds clearing and being in their accounts.