HostGator affiliate Program / Hosting, Bad Experience! Help is Welcome

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Meesterweb is going all over the Internet posting the same message in every forum all because we will not pay him for the 100+ fraud sign-ups he sent us with fake domains, phone, and billing information. We are planning legal action against him due to his fraudulent activities, and blackmailing bashings in order to get us to pay him what is not owed. I do believe he lost money with adwords, but that is not our responsibility. We also lost a lot of money from the time the dozen+ hours processing over a 100 fraud sign-ups.

I probably will not be back to respond as I'm having trouble keeping up with all the forums he is bashing us at in an attempt to extort money from us. We pay out over a $140,000 a month to our affiliates and the majority of them have a very load fraud ratio unlike this affiliates 99%+ I believe the reason for all his fraud has to do with him building a web site instructing people step by step with pictures how to sign up with us for a free month, and get around entering billing information. We waited a little over a month before auditing all the sign-ups and once we did we found almost everyone single one of the 100+ to be fraud. There were a couple we cannot say our fraud beyond a doubt, but we have our suspicions and this number would be less than 5 out of the total 120 sent. We have terminated his affiliate account due to the ridiculous amount of fraud, and are not going to pay him $20,000+.

If there is any company out there that pays commission knowingly on fraud sign-ups and does not care please let me know and I will retire to make a living off this.
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lol, what a scam artist. Good eyes in finding these people who try and pull this bullsh***

goodluck trying to get this guy to stop posting thread after thread in multiple forums. Hostgator is far most the best web hosting company on the net

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Dear readers,

Thank you for the replies. I feel bad that what happened is told in bad way and the conflict seems to get only bigger. Iâ€™m not at all willing to do anything bad with this post. Iâ€™m just telling what happened to me. I just felt bad and frustrated of all that happened and wanted to tell my story. I prefer to work normally and donâ€™t have these big conflicts. To be more complete and answer some questions Iâ€™ll describe some things more clearly and display my thoughts on this matter.

Beginning of October 2005 I was looking for a hosting package for a website. I decided to go for Hostgator. I read many good reviews on Hostgator. After I saw the offer on your website: $50 to $125 per signup. I thought this is interesting: "there is a business opportunity".
I setup a webpage and went advertising for this webpage on Google Adwords.

At that moment Hostgator had an offer for a free month on Hostgator. I decided to advertise with this action of Hostgator. This might be the cause of our conflict. Let's say Hostgator is talking the truth when they say didnâ€™t receive any money from the 120 signups. It might have got something to do with this free month. People could have come in to my website and went to Hostgator, not to take hosting for a full year but just for a month to try it only. That is why I asked if my campaign was ok. They have seen my website and said it was ok. Thatâ€™s why I trusted it was ok and I went along with the campaign and invested so much money in advertising on google.

Before Hostgator send me that email on the 25th of November. I was really thinking: Wow this is going very, very well. I received a confirmation from Hostgator that my site was ok and thought all was well. They said only 1 is bad from 20. The money was just coming in, I got more than 120 signups in these 2 months and read online in the affiliate part of Hostgator site that this was a value of $15000. I just calculated even if 1 in 20 is bad, this is still a very good score. And I thought I'm really doing a great campaign on Google, having a great website and am making good business for Hostgator too. I have no insight in the leads I sent to hostgator. The only thing I see is numbers and the money I will receive on the Hostgator website.

Then I received the mail. "Good luck defrauding another company" I hope you can understand how this must have felt for me. At that moment I expected a check of several thousands of dollars and this was happening to me! I really felt robbed at that moment. I had just been working very hard for 2 months, investing time and money in making a good campaign and website for Hostgator. And then at once all is gone. My websites are offline (where I paid my bills for), the statistics of signups I brought in are offline, the websites that I transferred were deleted. Without a warning all I built up during 2 months is gone.

For Hostgator I think it must have felt different by then. They saw many signups coming in, which must have felt good for them too, good business. They gave the people an account, also invested time in the new signups. But in the end they told me none of them converted into real customers. For me this is still difficult to believe because of the mail in October where they said only 1 was wrong from the 20, but letâ€™s stop about that. Itâ€™s all about trust in this matter because I canâ€™t look in their administration. They must have drawn the wrong conclusion then that I was frauding and probably they were angry at that moment, when they deleted all my accounts and websites.

Iâ€™m trying to understand how Hostgator must have felt and have been thinking and why they have reacted this way. I hope you can understand my feelings and conclusions too and understand. The thing that frustrated me the most was that we didnâ€™t get any conversation going. I felt like I got no chance to explain my story to them. My websites were just deleted at once, so I couldnâ€™t save important information and I couldnâ€™t log into the affiliate program anymore, because everything was deleted without a warning. They could have contacted me earlier instead and talk about it. I am a reasonable person and we could have thought together on what might be the reason of the bad conversion.

We had some contact afterwards and we just couldn't get together in any way. They never provided me with a full list of people that signed up through me. I would be willing to check them myself. I felt I can do nothing from the Netherlands. I wanted to be heard and I decided to post my story and feelings about it online and how I think of it. I have no bad intentions with this.

I wish Hostgator good luck in their business. They are obviously a great company because of all the good reviews on their business that are online. They proved in their past they are good at what they do. But I find it also important too that people and businesses listen to your story before they judge and get into action like what happened to me in November. This is a forum where people tell their experiences and this my experience. Maybe I should just accept that the cooperation with hostgator worked out bad for me, because of a bad communication.

I hope this message gives some more clarity to the story and I hope you appreciate this message. I wish you all good luck in your businesses and life!

Greetings
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I am a marketer I know how hard it is to get 120 sign ups in just under a couple months. You sound like a complete newbie saying "Was looking for hsot and went with Hostgator" This tells me that you just started. If you were a marketer wanting to promote Hostgator then you would have already had a web site and web hosting as you would have had the experience from that.

You say you got 120 Sign ups and not one of them payed? lol wow! that right there tells me FRAUD.

For someone that has a heart to do something like this must not have much money at all. Good luck fighting in court with Hostgators legal team that probally only makes there money off commisson I bet they would love to take you to court haha

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well, i dont think hostgator is that bad.......
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If you are a small fry. They 'may' be dandy.

If you take your business seriously, get serious hosting.

2 cents.

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any body get pain here from Hostgator , I joined their affiliates.
what is ur earnings please share.

Thanks.

me4you, Jan 19, 2008 IP

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I've used Hostgator for years and have had zero problems. Other than the occasional screw up on my end that tech support helped me sort out. I've got a more in depth review on my blog if anyone's looking for a good hosting company.

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