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07-05-2005, 03:30 PM #1Eternal Member
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Misleading Hosting Websites
I have been looking at alot of web hosting sites and some are quite misleading in what they offer.
The most recent, a host advertising they offer "the worlds cheapest domain names" when it can be easily proven that other companies offer a cheaper cost for domain names.
What can be done about this. Its one thing to compete on price, or oversubscribe, its another to just lie on the website.
Thoughts please.
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07-05-2005, 03:34 PM #2Disabled
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Nothing can be done about them as you dont have court to prove that he is a liar. There is no place where it is mentioned that so and so registrar is cheapest.
Its upon customer to decide whether he should do some more search or signup with those who give wrong information on site.0
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07-05-2005, 03:45 PM #3Eternal Member
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Well if someone makes a claim that they are the worlds cheapest domain, and they are not because another host offers it cheaper, then to me its been proved they are not the cheapest.
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07-05-2005, 03:52 PM #4Disabled
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But there is no Court to stop such things in Internet world. All you can do is contact his Hosting Company or Datacenter and ask them to take action but that is not a reason to take action against anyone as he can say that he is selling worlds cheapest domains in his location
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07-05-2005, 03:54 PM #5Retired Moderator
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Don't buy from them, just move on to the next host. This is a business trick seen in every market (far from just webhosting) and it may not be the nicest, but it works from time to time.
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07-05-2005, 03:57 PM #6Eternal Member
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I wasnt going to buy from them anyway, but isnt fraud monitored on the net
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07-05-2005, 03:59 PM #7Retired Moderator
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Originally posted by JBIZ718
I wasnt going to buy from them anyway, but isnt fraud monitored on the net
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07-05-2005, 04:02 PM #8Disabled
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Originally posted by etechsupport2
But there is no Court to stop such things in Internet world.
What exactly are you basing this statement on?
Courts are courts and laws are laws.
If a site is lying on their site about pricing claims then it is false advertising. Just because it is an internet business does not mean it doesn't apply.0
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07-05-2005, 04:04 PM #9Disabled
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You cannot take any action against them for false advertising. All that you can do is post on forums about them but there are so many websites in the world doing false advertising and there is no way to stop them.
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07-05-2005, 04:15 PM #10Disabled
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Originally posted by etechsupport2
You cannot take any action against them for false advertising.
Why can you not take any action against them for false advertising?
The fact of the matter is that internet advertising is subject to the same laws and non-internet advertising.0
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07-05-2005, 04:16 PM #11Retired Moderator
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Originally posted by blue27
Why can you not take any action against them for false advertising?
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07-05-2005, 04:20 PM #12Retired Moderator
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You cannot take any action against them for false advertising.
In the UK at least I'm sure someone like Trading Standards would look into a company if they were clearly braking trading laws. I'm fairly certain other countries will have similar organisations like this.Steve0
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07-05-2005, 04:26 PM #13Disabled
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Trading Standards will take action only if his company is a registered Company.
If he has registered the domain and launched his website without registering his company then you cannot stop him from doing false advertising.0
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07-05-2005, 04:55 PM #14WHT Addict
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What kind of mistake would you be making if you accused that host of lying about "World's cheapest domain names" and you found out, you were the one who was wrong?
Then what?
Have some massive corporation after you for slander, when you're just a regular joe? You didn't know they have the "World's cheapest domain names" and you missed the fine print "When purchased in 5 year lots" or "Prices in relation new .world TLD" ... I don't know what host you are referring to, but you might make a tragic mistake if it turns out that you were wrong.
Just something else to think about...
The other option here is.... just let it go... how many hosts offer 99.9% Uptime Guarantee.. . let's start attaching logs and see someone prove 99.9%
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07-05-2005, 06:37 PM #15Web Hosting Evangelist
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They should use "One of the cheapest blah blah blah" instead
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07-05-2005, 09:07 PM #16Retired Moderator
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Here one can report a company (local company of course) to a certain organisation that can handle these things. However, no one would actually bother to.
They should use "One of the cheapest blah blah blah" instead0
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07-05-2005, 09:33 PM #17WHT Addict
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honestly if you can get it elsewhere and know so who really cares what they post.
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07-05-2005, 10:42 PM #18Web Hosting Master
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07-06-2005, 12:10 AM #19Web Hosting Master
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Re: Misleading Hosting Websites
Originally posted by JBIZ718
What can be done about this. Its one thing to compete on price, or oversubscribe, its another to just lie on the website.
As far as what can be done legally, the court system is in existence and should you be really offended by such firm, you can take them to court.
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07-06-2005, 02:14 AM #20Newbie
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All those words like" cheapest, best, top....etc" are just a marketing strategy to attract customes' attention, even it might not be true. So, it is still up to customes' own justification whenever want to sign up for a service.
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