HIKED™ MEGATHREAD

Neoon

Let us know about your HIKES.
Today's one just in:

First of all let us thank You for your faith in XetHost's services!

We'd like to inform you hereby about some minor changes.

As our old customer, you surely feel and experience that it's our priority to continuously develop our infrastructure and solutions, thereby providing quality services to our customers. We finished many development projects in 2020.

We made the availability of our services and infrastructure transparent, so you can check if the SLA levels in our contracts are met. It also enables you to get prompt alerts about planned maintenances and possible, unexpected problems as well. These are all publicly visible on our https://status.xethost.com site.

Considering last year's economical changes and industry trends, to be able to provide the XetHost quality level, we had to make minor price corrections for 2021. The change will not be significant and affects customers who choose PayPal to pay their invoices. In these cases, our system will add a +5.4% administration fee to the invoice after 15th February 2021.

In October 2020 we introduced Stripe's credit card payment option, that lets invoices to be paid without an administration fee similar to other payment methods.

In our opinion, the correct way is to communicate it to you.

Freek

My window washer increased it's prices by 5% this year.

benz

Only one I've seen so far is Contabo increasing their prices by $vat.

Neoon

@Freek said:
My window washer increased it's prices by 5% this year.

seriesn

Isn't it against paypals policy to charge extra fee?

Mason

@Neoon said: The change will not be significant and affects customers who choose PayPal to pay their invoices. In these cases, our system will add a +5.4% administration fee to the invoice after 15th February 2021.

Maybe I'm getting my wires crossed, but doesn't PayPal explicitly forbid sellers from adding fees to PayPal-based payments if other payment options are also provided according to their ToS?

Edit: @seriesn beat me to it... bastard

DianTama

The only hikes I remember is Cpanel. it forces me to move to DA

yoursunny

@Neoon said:
Let us know about your HIKES.

HIKES? I hiked up Hoye-Crest, Maryland's high point, on 2020-03-21.
Trip story here: https://yoursunny.com/t/2020/geocaching-2020/

seriesn

@Mason said:

@Neoon said:

Edit: @seriesn beat me to it... bastard

I am very fast. Don't simply take my word for it. Ask your ex

Freek

@seriesn said:

@Mason said:

@Neoon said:

Edit: @seriesn beat me to it... bastard

I am very fast. Don't simply take my word for it. Ask your ex

Mason

@seriesn said:

@Mason said:

@Neoon said:

Edit: @seriesn beat me to it... bastard

I am very fast. Don't simply take my word for it. Ask your ex

No wonder you're offering the "rebound special". She broke your heart too

InceptionHosting

@Mason said:

@Neoon said: The change will not be significant and affects customers who choose PayPal to pay their invoices. In these cases, our system will add a +5.4% administration fee to the invoice after 15th February 2021.

Maybe I'm getting my wires crossed, but doesn't PayPal explicitly forbid sellers from adding fees to PayPal-based payments if other payment options are also provided according to their ToS?

Edit: @seriesn beat me to it... bastard

I always thought that but even OVH charge extra so maybe that only apples in the USA. ?

seriesn

@Mason said:

@seriesn said:

@Mason said:

@Neoon said:

Edit: @seriesn beat me to it... bastard

I am very fast. Don't simply take my word for it. Ask your ex

No wonder you're offering the "rebound special". She broke your heart too

Aye bro hug

_MS_

@seriesn said:

@Mason said:

@seriesn said:

@Mason said:

@Neoon said:

Edit: @seriesn beat me to it... bastard

I am very fast. Don't simply take my word for it. Ask your ex

No wonder you're offering the "rebound special". She broke your heart too

Aye bro hug

On Bob's breakup:

CamoYoshi

My ISP (Comcast) is terminating my $30/mo. 75Mbps down, 5Mbps plan in favor of a $50/mo. plan that runs at 25Mbps down, 3Mbps up.

debaser

@CamoYoshi said:
My ISP (Comcast) is terminating my $30/mo. 75Mbps down, 5Mbps plan in favor of a $50/mo. plan that runs at 25Mbps down, 3Mbps up.

Can they even do that? How do they keep customers?

Oh wait, let me guess, they’re a monopolist?

CamoYoshi

@debaser said:

@CamoYoshi said:
My ISP (Comcast) is terminating my $30/mo. 75Mbps down, 5Mbps plan in favor of a $50/mo. plan that runs at 25Mbps down, 3Mbps up.

Can they even do that? How do they keep customers?

Oh wait, let me guess, they’re a monopolist?

Only ISP around where I live that has acceptable speeds. The DSL provider here (CenturyLink) tops out at 12Mbps down, 750Kbps up, for $50/mo. as well. But at least it doesn't have a data cap like the Comcast connection does.

Should be noted last year Comcast averaged a uptime of 93% last year, while CenturyLink was 100%. So... I pay for both and have it set up in a failover. I work from home (at least for the forseeable future) and need to have reliable internet.

debaser

Not really a price hike, but everyting but customer friendly.

End of last year my mobile provider offered me a new 2 year contract. Their original price was €35/month for unlimited data/calls/texts. But their sales person offered it for €25/month. So of course I didn't hesitate and said yes immediately. Good deal.

My new contract started last month and the first invoice showed just the normal €35. I though this would be just a simple mistake, so I called the customer service. First agent I spoke to tried to blame me for it, because this was something that really wasn't possible except if I also had fixed services with them (which I don't have and don't want). Bullcrap of course, so I filed a complaint.

Got called back by a more senior agent a few days later. He cancelled my new contract because they really couldn't offer me the subscription for €25. According to him it was a tactic from the sales division. It was probably an easy way to sign more people up for a fixed connection too.

Anyway: switched to the operator I already had a fixed service at. Their mobile network is a bit slower (although they're currently switching all their sites over so getting better by the day) but at least they really offer it for €25/month.

vyas

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