That Hosting Company

4 days and still nothing yet from the OR Attorney General, I imagine it will take a while and all it will be is a canned response.

The web_hosting_troubles group at Yahoo has been slow. Today someone joined just to chime with his offer of low cost hosting. Geez, kick a group when they are down why don’t you. I unsubscribed. I think it is time to get over it and move on. This is not the first time I have lost money on something and I’m sure it will not be the last. There goes a perfectly good domain name too.

What’s next?
mastersmiataclub.com
mastersmiataclub.net
mastersmiataclub.info
masters-miata-club.org
masters-miata-club.net
masters-miata-club.com
masters-miata-club.info
mastersmiata.com
mastersmiata.net
mastersmiata.info
masters-miata.org
masters-miata.net
masters-miata.com
masters-miata.info

MG Woodoo!

What happens when you put a Magnum Spun Voodoo knob on Calvin’s Transmogrifier with a MGW Gripper knob – you get a MG Woodoo! Looks OK, feels OK, not sure what to think, will drive the weekend with it and see. Pictures tomorrow in the light.

Started down, still down.
Top Transitions since 02/01/02: 103

Rubber Ring

I took the Voodoo knob off and put the OEM knob from a 99 Miata back on. I have plans. I like the rubber ring from around the MGW gripper knob and I love the feel of the shape of the Voodoo, so why not the best of both worlds. I pried the rubber ring off the MGW and took some measurements. Applied those to a drawing I made of the Voodoo knob and turned it over to a buddy who is a wiz with a lathe. I’ll let you know what happens. Some folks hate it, but I actually like the way the stock knob feels. I like the Voodoo better, so if this doesn’t work out, I’ll get a new one, this time in pearl so I won’t have to keep renewing the spun finish.

Started down, still down.
Top Transitions since 02/01/02: 103

Episode II

Spent a few hours last night getting excited about the new Star Wars film. All started when I noticed a display in the supermarket for Lays chips with photos of 3CPO on the bags. (Already with the marketing, sheesh.) Went to the Official Site and watched the four medium sized trailers for the film. You can’t watch the large size ones unless you upgrade to Quicktime Pro. I wonder if that helped Apple, or hurt them. The Ifilm site has a countdown clock to the Episode II release date on a page full of fan fiction films. I watched 3 or four of them too. “American Jedi” is worth a click, American Pie meets teenaged Obi Wan Kenobi….

That Hosting Company

Nothing yet from the OR Attorney General….

Someone invited me to join the web_hosting_troubles group at Yahoo, lots of other THC Screwees there. I signed up, and even posted a reply there. Boy howdy is that a pain in the butt to use. Not literally use, but finding your way around through all the ads, sheeesh.

Add that to Mike McBride’s Forum on this subject and I now have officially too many places to post and not enough time to do any of them justice.

Now that I’ve said it again, I don’t particularly care for THC Screwee as a label, but at least it rhymes. 😀 Anybody else got an idea? We need a logo , maybe a slogan…shirts, mugs, mousepads 😉

That Hosting Company Complaint

Here is the gist of the form I submitted a few minutes ago to the Oregon Attorney General:

To: consumer.hotline@state.or.us
From: nobody@216.78.141.121
Cc:
Subject: CONSUMER COMPLAINT FORM
X-mail-agent: mailmerge v1.1

CONSUMER COMPLAINT FORM
Date —- 4/23/2002
_______________________________

DATE OF TRANSACTION(S) —- 13-Sep-01
_______________________

INFORMATION ABOUT THE BUSINESS OR PERSON
ABOUT WHICH YOU ARE COMPLAINING.
Jack Thomas DBA That Hosting Company
320 SW Stark St Suite 205
Portland, OR 97204
BUSINESS PHONE NUMBER
(503) 223-5323
____________________________________
DATE OF TRANSACTION —- 13-Sep-01
HOW MUCH MONEY DO YOU THINK YOU LOST? —- $99
WHOM HAVE YOU CONTACTED CONCERNING YOUR COMPLAINT?
ATTORNEY —-
BUSINESS—-
OTHER—-
NAME OF CONTACT —-
NO ACTION —-
___________________________________

DETAILS OF THE COMPLAINT
DETAILS —- I signed up for lifetime web hosting with That Hosting Company in September and they never provided a reliable service. Their site advertised 100% up time for 2001 and in the 3 month’s I was using their service there were several outages lasting from 12 hours up to 3 days. 2002 was even worse. The last of which started on 9-Apr-02 and continues up until now. Every time there was an outage they was no explanation. Recently after an outage they sent an email that they were merging with another host to provide us with better service and to expect several outages for the 5 days it would take. 8 days later they were up again but not providing the same type of service. Didn’t matter as connectivity was slooooow and brief, after a week they were down again.
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That Hosting Company VIII cont.

John Newman answered my call for a copy of the THC Terms Of Service. He snagged them using the Wayback Machine. Good thinking!

Another THC screwee, Jon Mcguire passed along a link to the BBB of Oregon & Western WA’s online page about THC. They have a different address and phone number listed:
4130 SW 117th Ave #451
Beaverton, OR 97005
503-223-1837

My rapidly failing gray matter made me forget to do the Oregon Attorney General’s online complaint form I mentioned yesterday, I’ll do it after I post this and let you know what I get back.