Globat Alert

I’d change hosting providers, but I’ve already paid for a few years hosting already. This is an alert to anyone hosted by Globat–they are doing it again. Here’s the email they sent out to everyone.

Dear Joe,

On Monday of this week, we sent you an e-mail with our new GloVault(tm) product upgrade offer that also included 3 free months of Web hosting and a price-freeze guarantee all for just $49.95. There is nothing you have to do to participate in this upgrade. It is all being done automatically! You will receive notification when you can use the wonderful new features of GloVault and your account on file is charged the one-time $49.95 upgrade fee.

If, by any chance, you have decided NOT to take advantage of this upgrade offer and the 3 free months of Web hosting, please click on the link below before midnight on August 16, 2007:

https://www.globat.com/optout_gv.php?52922.f3d3f73345

(If link does not work, please copy and paste the entire link into your browser.)

Thank you again for being a loyal customer.

Best regards,

Lou Rio

Vice President of Operations

Globat.com

(877) 245-6228 for US Customers

(323) 874-9000 for International Customers

(Emphasis added)

Yes, if you don’t do anything, they will automatically charge your account for this upgrade. I fell for it a while back because I habitually ignored emails from Globat. They spam you all the time. Then one day I found some money missing from my account and spent a good bit of time tracking down who did it.

I have heard of people putting together a class action lawsuit against them for these tactics. They are notorious for doing this. I am placing the alert out there to tell any Globat customers to check their email, in case they’ve assumed it was more spam. I have written them, saying that I no longer want to receive emails like this. They wrote back, apologized, and promised to no longer send me automatic upgrade offers.

Their memories are short. Mine isn’t.