Tuesday, August 4, 2009

1 & 1 Ripping off clients

The biggest mistake I ever made was to register some domains with 1 & 1. My latest statement for renewal of one domain shocked me and when I checked I found that they had just charged me for every other variation of the names - my only signup was foe ww.seakers-bootcamp.co.uk - see below for all the addittional domains they have charged for:

1 Basic Fee £ 00.00 a month 1 mo. 0.00 15.00
03.08.2009-03.09.2009
2 Additional Domain co.uk/org.uk/.me.uk £ 2.99 per year 24 mo. 5.98 15.00
05.07.2009-05.07.2011 speakers-bootcamp.co.uk
3 Additional Domain co.uk/org.uk/.me.uk £ 2.99 per year 24 mo. 5.98 15.00
05.07.2009-05.07.2011 speakersbootcamp.co.uk
4 Additional Domain co.uk/org.uk/.me.uk £ 2.99 per year 24 mo. 5.98 15.00
05.07.2009-05.07.2011 salesbootcamp.co.uk
5 Additional Domain co.uk/org.uk/.me.uk £ 2.99 per year 24 mo. 5.98 15.00
05.07.2009-05.07.2011 salesexperience.co.uk
Total Due (net.) £ 23.92
+ VAT (15.00%) £ 3.59
Charges £ 27.51
If you have any billing questions, please call the 1&1 billing support team on 0871 641 21 21 or send at email to billing@1and1.co.uk.

This is the biggest rip off I have ever seen, avoid this company and use more ethical companies like www.godaddy.com that will not try to ri you off at every opportunity.