Need legal help here! ASAP!

[Bill36]

Ok well i was paying for hosting for my website. The host was a really mean guy always suspending my account because he thought it was funny. (its not funny) I paid him $55 usd for half a year hosting. He said give me $55 now and I will stay out of your hair for half a year. So i said ok will do. Payed him he still kept doing that account suspend for no good reason. Also he made me put a big moving link on my website to his website. I paid for half a year's hosting and got 3 weeks! He has shut my account down permantely and wont give back my money. He told me to move to a new host. He wont give the money back and he wont give me my database backups so now if i move to a new host i have nothing. What can be done here to help me out?

 

[Marck]

If your database is valuable you can sue him for breach of contract. That's about your only option that I can see.

Otherwise you can just walk away from this hopefully having learned a lesson... or you could contact the police, because it sounds like he might have extorted you and possibly committed some form of computer crime by his actions, but that's not a promising route at all, the dollar amount being very small.

 

[Bill36]

Ok he also threatned me and told me to die. I have the picture. Can that help?

Also what do you mean by valueable? TO me it means everything. It has all my posts, and members. Pretty much everything i need to run my site. Does that count?

 

[briman1970]

Is this related to your recent negative TR?

 

[evertonian7uk]

what is his name? and the hosting company he uses? maybe contact the datacenter showing them proof of what there seller is doing???

more details please, this could be a case of he said she said, the more details you provide the better advice we can give

 

[Bill36]

Briman no its not for my negative tr, evertonian 7uk. His hosting company is https://interserver.net/index.html i have already used the contact button and tryed getting a hold of someone but no luck so far. I have only tryed once!

 

[Peter]

what is his name? and the hosting company he uses? maybe contact the datacenter showing them proof of what there seller is doing???

more details please, this could be a case of he said she said, the more details you provide the better advice we can give

It is not really up to the data center to do anything about a matter such as this. As long as he is not doing anything illegal such as spamming or have phishing sites they will not do much.

 

[labrocca]

Cheap unreliable hosts are all over the place. Choose a credible host with solid feedback. Just move on. It's $110 but you won't ever see that money again.

 

[Damion]

Go the police and file a complaint, he basically extorted you and made threats as you said.

A better site name would be 8-X SopranoHosting.com 8-X instead of InterServer.net

If you have paid the advertised price for the service advertised then you have every right to gain access to your database and retrieve everything so you can start somewhere else.

 

[evertonian7uk]

It is not really up to the data center to do anything about a matter such as this. As long as he is not doing anything illegal such as spamming or have phishing sites they will not do much.

i was thinking more along the lines of show some action and maybe the guy will think damn it, this kid wont stop and return the cash lol, wishful thinking, but has worked for me in the past.

a few well placed posts on well known web hosting forums was enough for me to recoup some losses, prehaps try that route, and its always good to show the guy links to your posts, so he can read them lol.

good luck

 

[Bill36]

Hey thanks for all of your help guys!

 

[IAmAllanShore]

Pay by credit card?

If so, look up their dispute process and then do so.

Credit Card Company Dispute Direct numbers: (add others to help out)

USAA, 800 535 8738
CHASE -- Claims Dept. DIRECT LINE - 1866 564 2262. (thx countdrak)
CITI - 1800 950 5114

For Chase: (Send via certified mail)

Card Member Services
Attn: Merchant Dispute
PO BOX 15299
Wilmington, DE 19850-5299

The info you need in the letter is the following:

Credit Card #
Charge amount
Date of charge
Merchant (SR)
Reason for dispute (
Date of last attempt at resolution of service problems/description of the attempt

 

[Bill36]

No it was paypal. I was thinking of going to the hosting company that he gets his hosting from and fileing a complaint and saying there is warez and like child porn on his site. So they shut him down lol.

 

[evertonian7uk]

Doing such things will only hurt your claim,

deal with facts and not fiction, these people dont have time to read 4 lines of BS, then chase down such big claims as child porn, once they discover its BS you'll lose all credibilty with them, and your claim.

 

[IAmAllanShore]

No it was paypal. I was thinking of going to the hosting company that he gets his hosting from and fileing a complaint and saying there is warez and like child porn on his site. So they shut him down lol.

I'm beginning to see why you run into trouble wherever you go, I think.

Negative TR, multiple disputes with service providers, and now this ^ ?

I'm not saying they haven't done something wrong, but as the saying goes, "If the whole world stinks, check your upper lip."

-Allan

 

[slim]

I'm beginning to see why you run into trouble wherever you go, I think.

Negative TR, multiple disputes with service providers, and now this ^ ?

I'm not saying they haven't done something wrong, but as the saying goes, "If the whole world stinks, check your upper lip."

-Allan

LOL :lol:

 

[Element]

Your hosting center probably won't take any legal action unless they're doing something against the law such as hacking or something like that.

 

[labrocca]

haha...Allen that's great....and most likely true for this kid. He seems to think that he can be as much trouble as he likes. Most likley he caused so much trouble for the sysadmin he said he needed more money otherwise go elsewhere. Some hosting clients are such noobs that they are just not worth keeping at any price. This could be the case here.

 

[Bill36]

No my negative tr is false. Someone offered me free hosting if i would give a backlink. I said ok message me on msn. He never messaged me but came on here saying that i used him and took adavatage of his hosting when i never got any hosting in the first place! Also this guy that im having a legal dispute with. He has warez on his website and im pretty sure his host dosent allow them. Can that help me at all?

 

[Peter]

haha...Allen that's great....and most likely true for this kid. He seems to think that he can be as much trouble as he likes. Most likley he caused so much trouble for the sysadmin he said he needed more money otherwise go elsewhere. Some hosting clients are such noobs that they are just not worth keeping at any price. This could be the case here.

Regardless of wether the op has been a pain in the ass or not it does not give the host the right to shut off the website when the hosting is already paid for. The host should either refund the money and provide a backup of the sites OR re enable the web hosting.

He has warez on his website and im pretty sure his host dosent allow them. Can that help me at all?

If you want your site content back then no it will not really help you at all. Even if the data center close the server they will not (and should not) provide you with the content you are after (it is not up to the data center to do that, your host is their client not you).