January 31, 2010
Webhostingstuff.com scammers?
Posted by: LordSnake : Category: Hosting
Anyone know anything about webhostingstuff.com?
I recently discovered my company was listed on there (not by me) and had 1 very defamatory fake review. The name of the reviewer was never a customer of ours and his website does not even exist.
Normally I wouldn't care but unfortunately this review comes up directly below our own website on a google search.
I contacted the owner of webhostingstuff.com (Michael Low) asking him to remove the fake review and also remove our listing from his site altogether, but got no reply, and then found my IP address had been blocked so I could no longer view the website.
My sales director also contacted him, and also got his IP blocked and no reply.
So I posted my own review stating that the previous one was fake, this was promptly deleted. Then I asked a few of our REAL customers to post reviews to make the fake one less prominent but they all got deleted as well and all those customers also got blocked.
I have never heard of Michael Low or webhostingstuff before and he is based in another country (Singapore), so there is no personal reason behind this, so the only explanation is that he does this for financial gain, being paid by one host to make a competitor look bad.
There is certainly no legitimate reason to be posting fake reviews about a company, deleting legitimate ones and blocking IP addresses.
I recently discovered my company was listed on there (not by me) and had 1 very defamatory fake review. The name of the reviewer was never a customer of ours and his website does not even exist.
Normally I wouldn't care but unfortunately this review comes up directly below our own website on a google search.
I contacted the owner of webhostingstuff.com (Michael Low) asking him to remove the fake review and also remove our listing from his site altogether, but got no reply, and then found my IP address had been blocked so I could no longer view the website.
My sales director also contacted him, and also got his IP blocked and no reply.
So I posted my own review stating that the previous one was fake, this was promptly deleted. Then I asked a few of our REAL customers to post reviews to make the fake one less prominent but they all got deleted as well and all those customers also got blocked.
I have never heard of Michael Low or webhostingstuff before and he is based in another country (Singapore), so there is no personal reason behind this, so the only explanation is that he does this for financial gain, being paid by one host to make a competitor look bad.
There is certainly no legitimate reason to be posting fake reviews about a company, deleting legitimate ones and blocking IP addresses.
