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A sad state of affairs, indeed.
It might be time to call the local authorities for a welfare check. I'm serious.
Just my frustration showing. It s not exactly a small amount that I stand to lose. I hope he is OK,
Rest in peace to the doc
The Doc has started to open bank chargebacks on his upstream providers. Brace yourself for more shutdowns.
Damn.
How do you know this?
The Kansas City node just went bye bye. So the end is now.
Wtf, that's pretty shitty. Definitely time to dispute and/or chargeback if you're in the 180 day time window. Absolutely no chances of refunds now. Thought Junior was above this type of shiftiness, but apparently not.
For those that don't know, @WootWoot is Francis from Heymman, who HostDoc was using in Kansas City.
He is one of the upstream providers (Heymman)
Ah, that explains it. Thanks Mason.
Because we received a $479.40 chargeback (Stripe) from them this morning (on a legitimate / due payment). Their Kansas City location has been shutdown 30 minutes ago. Their status page also shows that their Dallas location was shutdown 45 minutes ago. They've probably been hit, today, with a chargeback too. I would expect the other providers to follow suit. :-(.
The end is nigh.
I dont know what else to say but frankly I am very disappointed on Doc.
Ouch. Is there any way to recover the money at this point?
Sorry you've been hit by that, That's honestly un-expected of him to do that. Hopefully you can provide sufficient evidence to stripe and win it.
To be honest, this is worse than CC hosts deadpooling.
Well, charging back from the companies you use as a provider is rather shitty...
you are an employee for Heymman and feel like simply disclosing stuff like that publicly is a good idea?
hmm.
Worse than rather shitty, it proves that it's a scam operation. He's deadpooled and trying to run off with as much cash as he can.
Take your backups while you still can.
Charging back his suppliers is a very shitty thing todo.
All he said was an amount of money, seriously, lets not hop on that train.
Edit: The train usually crashes?
Nothing more to lose for him.
Infact, to gain.
But the brand was so profitable!!!
Francisco
Those who received chargebacks, please start a new thread. Let's get a group legal effort here as what he's doing is very illegal.
Normally, I would agree. But, in this case he went silent, held back on refunds and in the background is trying to fleece his upstreams before anyone gets wind of the fact the refunds are not coming.
There is a low point you reach even for LET when this kind of information should be disclosed, that time is now.
wow, it hasn't been a month from the date with email notification (feb,02)
This is NOT good. I wonder if he's charging back all the payments to his suppliers. What an ass.
Okay. I have seen a lot of stupid shit. But chargebacking upstream, that actually delivered as promised, WHAT THE FUCK.
Honestly, we missed all these tricks years back, could you imagine how much money we could have made had we thought about things like this. Sajan could have done the setup, @ChrisMiller on the dodgy deals with server providers and if anyone complained Martin would have threatened them all.
If only we could go back in time.
Digging a hole to deep ..I would says he is grasping at anything to lessen his financial exposure with this clusterf**k.
You would be surprised what people do when they get desperate.