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Good reliability, marginal (at best) customer service - Review by Anonymous submitted on April 16, 2003
Customer's web site: N/A
Length of time hosted by this company: 1 year - 3 years
Date when last hosted by this company (as of April 16, 2003): Current customer
Plan used: N/A
Customer service rating: 4 out of 10
Technical quality rating: 8 out of 10
Cost rating: 5 out of 10
Overall rating: 4 out of 10
Technically, the service is nearly flawless. I’ve only had one problem in 2+ years I’ve been with them. Technical support, although available, can be very picky. Do yourself a favor and remember *each and every* field you enter in your application for services. Write them down. Save them. Keep them in at least two locations with at least two different people. *Every* last silly field. Get just one of them wrong when they ask you and kiss your account goodbye.

I don’t like giving out personal information to just anyone. Needless to say, I made some stuff up. “As long as they get paid,” I figured.

Because I couldn’t answer the questions I filled out on my application, tech support refused to deal with me. Refused. Literally. As a previous reviewer pointed out: refused.

My email accounts were inaccessible. I couldn’t remember *one* of the questions. The best they would do was “close the account and reopen it.” A.K.A.: kiss all your saved emails and web files goodbye. Poof. Gone.

I went through five tech support people pointing out how silly their I.D.-ing policy was. In there attempt to “protect” their customers, they were screwing them.

The email problem I had was their problem. All they needed to do was clear it but they “couldn’t” until they got a request from the account holder. That was me. But they wouldn’t take my word for it. Regardless of how much payment information I had, etc.

One person, one, uno, took mercy on me. Although s/he didn’t say it, I could hear the mercy in the voice. S/he told me s/he couldn’t help without the identity information. Two hours later, my email account came back on-line. I will never dime that person out. Ever. Total downtime: one week. I have subsequently reverse engineered the information they have and can re-access my account.

 

 

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