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    Thumbs down aplus.net

    I just bought a new domain yesterday, and wake up today to a voice mail on my cell phone from aplus.net trying to solicit business from me. I haven't had a chance to move the domain to my host yet, so it's still sitting at Dotster. He said to call him back, but I just deleted his message because I can guarantee he doesn't want me to call him back.

    I can't stand things like that. If I want hosting, I'll find you, you don't find me. And that just ruled out me ever doing any kind of business with that particular company.

    Bah. I wake up grumpy as it is.
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    Is it the guy who posts here under aplus?
    Don't you just love free internet games ?

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    I don't know. I don't even remember the guys name, I had just woke up and listened to the message. So was still half asleep.
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    That's pathetic. I have also heard stories that aplus has been putting code on sites they are hosting that can only be viewed by spiders/bots. Something like "Web hosting provided by Aplus".
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    Last edited by ozgression; 02-06-2011 at 05:43 AM.

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    Here is a link...

    Aplus.net Takes Down Cloaked Links

    April 26, 2004 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Web hosting provider Aplus.net admitted last Friday that it "cloaked" customer's Web sites with hidden code in order to boost its search engine rankings, but said that it had removed the links as soon as it became aware of them.
    See full article here
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    Last edited by ozgression; 02-06-2011 at 05:43 AM.

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    These guys have been calling people from WHOIS info for months... they're a really low class business. Been talking to one of their chat reps for a while, nice guy, doesn't really like them either. Gets paid commission bonuses which is why someone's always popping a chat in your face over there. As far as aplus.net sees it, there's nothing wrong with calling every new domain registrant as long as they screen against the federal DNC list (ignoring the state lists, verisign's WHOIS TOS, among other things). Oh well.
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    A web design company called one of my clients the other day, trying to offer to re-design his site. I wasn't pleased.

    But, that's the price of capitalism.

    Dan, glad to see you over here. Just purchased some of your services while I was bored (untargetted, don't expect any results). Just wanted to check your service out.

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    SPF, WHT, HTTPTalk and NP aren't filling my needs for webmaster forums anymore. Not enough fresh threads. Of course, Chris's forums are great
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    I wonder if you fill all customer orders that quickly

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    Nope, I piss a lot of people off making them wait up to a day to fill an order. Maybe if it wasn't such a chore I'd fill orders more than twice a day.

    About 25% have to be e-mailed and put on hold until they can remove popups or music from the page, and a couple a day have to be manually refunded for ordering traffic to an adult site.

    Then there's the occasional scammer paying with someone else's money to send visitors to a site that installs a password stealing trojan (3 of 'em so far, that almost got me infected in the process). $324 in reversed payments by PayPal this week from one of those and a stolen account.

    Plus when I fill orders I usually go through the last week's orders URLs again to check that they haven't changed their site content... some people like to submit a valid site then change it to their favorite porno affiliate program once the traffic starts coming, and raise their daily cap as high as they can.
    Last edited by Dan Grossman; 05-01-2004 at 12:45 AM.
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    Bitter? ;p

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    It would do me good to employ someone for customer service with a better attitude than myself, I'm sure.

    This is a rather comfortable feeling forum. It deserves more members than this.
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    Yeah, it's one of the best I've seen (probably due to the small size).

    Watch out for that incka character, he's an ***.

    You don't happen to have Xbox Live, do you?

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    You'll never find me playing on anything without an AMD processor inside, and the game will be free. UT2004 demo currently.
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