Image Host Alert

Well, I have had an interesting and aggravating week, due to a site that is now on my scam list.

The owner of this site owns both http://www.boomspeed.com/ and http://www.picbuddy.com/ and is also an ebay seller. Boomspeed and PicBuddy are image hosting services for the most part.

I had been with Boomspeed for about 5 years, and the service was always free. Altho I had been planning to purchase server space on a real server, at the time I had a great number of webpages and splash pages hosted here. Without warning, I tried to log in in early January, only to find out that my account had been locked, and if I wanted to access my files I had to pay them $25 for the next 6 months use, and the TOS states that I will be billed every 3 months thereafter at $18 per 3 months.

Against my better judgement, I paid them the $25 from my debit card, even tho the hosting I actually sell myself was only $36 a year for unlimited service hosting of several websites. I also wrote them around April, informing them, according to thier TOS, that I no longer wished to continue the service and to cancel the account, but never recieved a response.

On June 4th, I found a charge from Boomspeed on my statement for the $18, and once again contacted them according to thier TOS, with no response. On June 29th, they charged my card again for another $18 which I did not notice till the next statement arrived on July 20th, I again emailed them with no response. On Monday, July 23rd, I went to the bank and cancelled my card.

Today, Monday July 30th, I recieved an insufficient funds charge of $35, for another $25 charge on the same card I just cancelled.I am told that they had apparantly already placed a hold on my account for that money when I cancelled it, unaware to me, and the very next day on the 24th, that $25 and another $35 because they sent my account to the negative, was taken from my account. I now owe the bank $45.