Godaddy.com mislead me, then charged me almost $900 to sync up my domain name renewal times. The guy on the phone did NOT tell me I was going to be charged anything right now. Then by "agreeing to the terms and conditions" verbally over the phone (which I was not given verbally or disclosed), apparently they charged me for an extra year of domain registration, even though many of my domains were pre-paid for years ahead! Then when I tried to dispute it, I spent a total of 3 hours on the phone, on four (count them 1,2, 3,4!!) phone calls, all for them to say it's "impossible" for them to refund, and the only way they could was to give up my 90 domain names! I asked what about all the fees I had prepaid for registration, and they told me those would be forfeited.
They sited me word for word, as they record and reviewed every conversation (be ware of privacy issues with these people), and used those recordings to mock me and tell me that "everything was handled properly" even though they couldn't tell me what "properly" meant.
I finally called Bob Parson's office (the founder of godaddy.com) and informed them of the FTC complaint issue, as well as demanded resolve. I spoke to a "Gary" by calling 480-505-8800 and asking for the presidents office. He started out fine, then got a nasty tone, and told me he would "look into it and get back to me."
At minimum this is a godaddy scam. It is false and misleading business practices that take advantage of unsuspecting consumers, and fruadulent billing practices that are used to take advantage of consumers. I hope danika patrick knows she is representing a company that operates this way. It's not my life's mission to expose godaddy.com for these fraudulent practices, and make sure the FTC takes actions to prevent more consumers from being hurt.
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