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Almost signed reseller deal with shell company

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uma

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99.99% or bust

14 #1

I almost signed a reseller deal with "HostHatch Solutions" last month. Their status page showed 99.99% uptime, but their status page URL was /status2.html while the real one at /status.html was 403-forbidden. Alert fatigue from their "planned maintenance" every Tuesday at random hours. I dug deeper:

- Registered 6 weeks before contacting me
- "About us" photo was stock image with EXIF from 2019
- Support ticket responses came in batches at 3 AM UTC, identical formatting

I pulled out. What warning signs have you caught?

436 days. reboot is surrender.
norafilch

Member

5 #2

Dont trust any company with numbers in name. No team page, press releases that all drop same week. I looked at thier whois. Found privacy lock, registrar is also 6 weeks old. Stream of consciousness says follow the money. The money smells like a shell inside a shell inside another shell like those russian dolls but made of empty promises, expired ssl certs

ronwit

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Budget King

#3

Actually I almost got tricked too~ basically same company but they called themselves "CloudCone Asia" this time?? Their english was... not good actually. Support email bounced back with 550 error but they had "24/7 support" badge (´・ω・｀) I checked their panel demo and it was basically whmcs nulled license, very sketchy~ never sign anything without testing ticket response time first, basically

instant noodles, instant deploys
MA

Member

1 #4

🚫 mas their contract had no real address, tipo just a PO box in delaware I asked for call and they only "live chat" that was clearly bot same 3 answers loop. Deal was 40% margin which is tipo nobody gives that to random dm

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