One full year of web hosting service for only $1

1,000 MB (1.0 GB) of web storage for one year
Unlimited Monthly Data Transfer
No Set Up Fee
No Monthly Fee/ No Hidden Charges
Host any extensions (i.e. .com, .net, .org)
Your Own Control Panel
Secure Socket Layer (SSL)
CGI/Perl Access
PHP4
SSI
MySQL Databases
Unlimited Email Accounts
Unlimited Email Fowarders
Unlimited Email Aliases
Unlimited Autoresponders
24/7 FTP Access
99.9% Uptime
FrontPage 2000 Extensions
Site-Usage Reporting
Site Statistics
File Manager
Password Protected Directories
Daily Backups
Submit to Major Search Engines URL: http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1309910202

I think it is too good to be true. What do you think guys?

Originally posted by Franky
. . . .I think it is too good to be true. What do you think guys? Agreed.

But, then, the biddin' ain't over.
Still you have to wonder how they're going to deliver that unlimited bandwidth.:rolleyes:

This one is even better:

One full year for only $19.95

50,000 MB (50.0 GB) of total web storage
Unlimited Monthly Data Transfer
Host unlimited domains
Minimum of 1,000 MB for each domain
A control panel for each domain
No Set Up Fee
No Monthly Fee/ No Hidden Charges
Host any extensions (i.e. .com, .net, .org)
Secure Socket Layer (SSL)
CGI/Perl Access
PHP4
SSI
MySQL Databases
Unlimited Email Accounts for each domain
Unlimited Email Fowarders
Unlimited Email Aliases
Unlimited Autoresponders
24/7 FTP Access
99.9% Uptime
FrontPage 2000 Extensions
Site-Usage Reporting
Site Statistics
File Manager
Password Protected Directories
Daily Backups
Submit to Major Search Engines

http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1308322462

:uzi:

Originally posted by DougK94
This one is even better . . . . . Ahhh . . . . Same seller. :eek:

Go figure. :rolleyes:


:D

You might be surprised it all traces back to Donhost. Shocker there...

What's with everyone selling hosting on ebay these days :confused:

9 people made a bid on it. :stickout

Originally posted by 311
What's with everyone selling hosting on ebay these days :confused:

Have you seen one with 10,000MB disk space for $25/year. :D

All can be found on eBay.

Who is Donhost anyways? :eek: :confused: :rolleyes:

You might be surprised it all traces back to Donhost. Shocker there...

I went to donhost.com and saw their reseller plans.

I think this seller is making big money.
His current active auctions on web hosting sum up to $1000+

I feel like being a reseller for Donhost.


:D

Originally posted by DougK94
This one is even better:

One full year for only $19.95
50,000 MB (50.0 GB) of total web storage
Unlimited Monthly Data Transfer
Host unlimited domains
Minimum of 1,000 MB for each domain
.
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http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1308322462
Just went to Donhost, here is the price list:

Monthly £35.99
Quarterly £98.99
Annually £359.99

Is it a big LOST for this guy to offer the same plan (50,000 MB transfer) for about 60% off its actual cost? :confused:
How can he survive? :eek: :confused:

Originally posted by Franky

Just went to Donhost, here is the price list:

Monthly £35.99
Quarterly £98.99
Annually £359.99

Is it a big LOST for this guy to offer the same plan (50,000 MB transfer) for about 60% off its actual cost? :confused:
How can he survive? :eek: :confused:

Easy and Simple!

For those who reach a certain amount of bandwidth, just refund him his money. There are many ways, and this is only one of it.

Originally posted by Asia
I went to donhost.com and saw their reseller plans.

I think this seller is making big money.
His current active auctions on web hosting sum up to $1000+

I feel like being a reseller for Donhost.

Yeah, he is selling it like peanuts :D
But seriously, I still can't figure out, how on earth can somebody offer this?
Does anybody have any comments on the rationale behind his business plan???

Originally posted by Asia
For those who reach a certain amount of bandwidth, just refund him his money. There are many ways, and this is only one of it.

Could you elaborate this please?

Easy, no one uses 1/100th of what he's "selling" them. If anyone uses even a 1/10th of it, guess what? They are found to be in violation of some TOS rule or another and boot!

I met someone who had 570 domains on one of these plans. Musta made a nice bit of pocket change.

Donhost themselves well, hell you can read these forums as easy as I can :D

Tell you what if he offered me 10 gigs of space
with unlimited transfer

i bet you i wouldnt be with him long
becuase i could defintely fill up those 10 gigs

and pump out an easy 300-40
gigs a month

Originally posted by MarcD
Tell you what if he offered me 10 gigs of space
with unlimited transfer

i bet you i wouldnt be with him long
becuase i could defintely fill up those 10 gigs

and pump out an easy 300-40
gigs a month

From the TOS at http://www.gotos.com/cgi-bin/hosting.pl?policy, I believe they will close your account with this reason, Misuse of Resources.

Originally posted by Asia


From the TOS at http://www.gotos.com/cgi-bin/hosting.pl?policy, I believe they will close your account with this reason, Misuse of Resources.

I positively love this line:

Content relating to Hacking, Cracking, Warez and IRC is not allowed.

Since when is CONTENT relating to IRC illegal or even really all that undesirable?

Let them find a SINGLE MP3 regardless of source (up and coming bands need not apply) and you're gone immediately I hear.

Originally posted by Dixiesys
Easy, no one uses 1/100th of what he's "selling" them. If anyone uses even a 1/10th of it, guess what? They are found to be in violation of some TOS rule or another and boot!
Thanks Dixie for the explaination :)

Originally posted by Dixiesys
Since when is CONTENT relating to IRC illegal or even really all that undesirable?

I guess it is IRC bots that are NOT allowed :eek:

Originally posted by Franky


I guess it is IRC bots that are NOT allowed :eek:

Well, I guess that's their way of covering it but most bots don't run as part of website content :D

It's a very very broad TOS that basically allows them to whack anyone they want at any time, if I remember right they last line of it said something to "we can deem anything we want unacceptable" (of course not spelled out that clearly).
I guess honestly a good AUP or TOS will pretty much make it so you can remove any customer at any time. The TOS I borrowed (hey I know he paid a lawyer to write it so why not use it?) pretty much lets me cancel any account for any reason (I actually read it the other day, I prefer "plainspeak" to that lawyer mumbo jumbo, guess that's the redneck in me).

I suppose it falls under the heading "CYA"

Im emailing ebay, telling them that unlimited bandwidth/transfer/hits is all false advertising. Ill see what happens and see their response.

Jim

Can you even sell intangible services on ebay?

Originally posted by bombino
Can you even sell intangible services on ebay? I guess the answer is yes, since Webhosting has its own category on eBay: Computers > Services > Web Hosting (http://listings.ebay.com/aw/plistings/list/category194/index.html)

Originally posted by jimb
Im emailing ebay, telling them that unlimited bandwidth/transfer/hits is all false advertising. Ill see what happens and see their response.Wow, if eBay responded it seriously, I think eBay would have to close 'Webhosting' category, because so much unlimited things advertised there.
Perhaps you should promote your Unlimband universally. I totally support it :)

Originally posted by Franky
Wow, if eBay responded it seriously, I think eBay would have to close 'Webhosting' category, because so much unlimited things advertised there.
Perhaps you should promote your Unlimband universally. I totally support it :)

That'd leave only my auctions :)

I want to sign up for an unlimband, unlimbdisk space account so that I can set up that tucows mirror that I've always wanted!

:dgrin:

Originally posted by bitserve
I want to sign up for an unlimband, unlimbdisk space account so that I can set up that tucows mirror that I've always wanted!

:dgrin:

That is not impossible if you are willing to pay unlimMoney. :stickout

Originally posted by Dixiesys
That'd leave only my auctions :) Absolutely! I salut you, Dixie! You are one of the few honest and professional sellers with reasonable offer. Keep it up :)

Originally posted by Franky
I think it is too good to be true. What do you think guys? [/B]

I guess we must just leave it at that..... tooo good to be true.... ;)

Originally posted by Franky
Absolutely! I salut you, Dixie! You are one of the few honest and professional sellers with reasonable offer. Keep it up :)

My Xmas special is not reasonable at all, should priced it at 29.95 :D Oh well, there's some people with awfully sweet hosting deals as long as they wanna keep 'em, dunno what I'da done if I'da had like several hundred signups!

***************************
Hi, thanks for telling us about this site. We truly appreciate it. We are not reseller of any company. We believe those people are trying to advertise for their company.
Thanks,
Gotos.com support
***************************

:rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

Originally posted by sayap
***************************
Hi, thanks for telling us about this site. We truly appreciate it. We are not reseller of any company. We believe those people are trying to advertise for their company.
Thanks,
Gotos.com support
***************************
:confused: :confused: :confused:

Name: donhost.co.uk
Address: 195.10.228.172
Name: gotos.com
Address: 195.10.228.176

Name: ns1.donhost.co.uk
Address: 193.130.95.100
Name: ns1.gotos.com
Address: 193.130.95.143

Name: ns2.donhost.co.uk
Address: 195.10.228.132
Name: ns2.gotos.com
Address: 195.10.228.198

So, they're not a Donhost reseller, wonder if they have a dedicated server with them?

The biggest baddest dedicated server they list had 60 gigs harddrive and 20 gigs of bandwidth, I don't see much "unlimited" there.

Maybe a colocated server? 5Gigs of transfer, 10pounds per gig over (OUCH) definitely not unlimited.

Wonder how gotos.com would handle it if say, any half successful band bid on that auction and made available every one of their songs in full 256bit MP3 format to thousands of ravenous fans? Heck I remember one time someone posted a 6 meg video to a web site I helped run and it was downloaded 2560 times the first day (you can do the math yourself, but it's a lot of gigs) and within the first 2 weeks or so of that video being available it generated 110gigs of transfers by itself (not to mention the other crap we posted on there generating several more gigs!).

I HATE it when re-sellers deny that they are re-sellers. We can clearly see that you are a re-seller of Donhost, but please don't say stuff that's not true! It pisses me off. If you're a re-seller it's okay, but don't hide it, (we all have to start somewhere don't we?)

Anyways, Unlimited Dosn't exsist and never will, No matter what Donhost says THEY ARE LYING. :smash:

I don't think they have a dedicated server at DonHost.

It is very unwise to sell web hosting plans like that if you have a dedicated server.

I want to see how DonHost reacts if they see what their resellers are doing. The one on eBay pockets the money and let DonHost handle the headache. :stickout

Hello franky and 311,

I wonder you guys' posts are pointing to me.....

well, I just copy-pasted what I get from gotos.com after I sent them an inquiry email....

did you notice the expression ":rolleyes:"?

sayap

Originally posted by sayap
Hello franky and 311,

I wonder you guys' posts are pointing to me.....

well, I just copy-pasted what I get from gotos.com after I sent them an inquiry email....

did you notice the expression ":rolleyes:"?

sayap

Oh, well now that I re-read I see what you mean, I did mistake you for a gotos.com tech support guy! I was like "holy crap they actually posted?" :D

Haha they've got to be a reseller, a user of the colo, or have a dedicated server with Donhost, because people can lie, but IPs don't ;)

Hello sayap,
I do apologize for the misundertanding. I thought you were the one who wrote that posting.

My apology.... :beer:

Franky,

I appreciate you for this posting. I seldom see somebody admits his little mistake publicly and apologize for it. I salute you!


Originally posted by Franky
Hello sayap,
I do apologize for the misundertanding. I thought you were the one who wrote that posting.

My apology.... :beer:

:)

*** U P D A T E ***

It's almost one month already (minus 1 week) since the beginning of this thread. Here is what I did: I decided to give it a shot by bidding on this auction (http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1309910202).

What I had in mind was that if I didn't get what I bid for, I'd just loose $1. If it turned out that the seller delivered what he offered, then it's just my luck :)

Guess what? Two days after the bidding was over, I'd still not received any email from the seller. So I decided to contact him, but no response whatsoever. Well, since I haven't paid any cents to the seller, I just did nothing.

This morning, I was surprised when I checked the seller's feedback (http://cgi2.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewFeedback&userid=kingfind). It's full of reds, if you know what I mean. Even worse, he is no longer a registered user at eBay, i.e. he's GONE!!!

Well, I have no intention to attack the seller here, since I don't loose anything. I just want to share a big lesson that: anything that is too good to be true, well most likely IT IS !

Franky :cool:

Hey, the seller of the auction is Not a registered user. :stickout

If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.

There's a sucker born every minute.

There's no such thing as a free lunch.

Guess what? Two days after the bidding was over, I'd still not received any email from the seller. So I decided to contact him, but no response whatsoever. Well, since I haven't paid any cents to the seller, I just did nothing.

At least you didn't pay yet.