Since receiving this partial payment my renewals/rebills have exceeded the amount which was paid (8% at the time), in other words the debt continues to grow.
I personally deleted well over a million files from my accounts.
That's the point, even deleting all the files you're getting a high % of rebills. Please, remember that users are not able to cancel Premium subscriptions themselves... They MUST to send an email to Alex, then he cancel recurring payments manually.
I'm wondering if they send emails, but he ignore them and don't cancel rebills. In this case, he's not cheating to us only... He makes fraud with users too. I wanted to know your opinion... Do you think he's doing that?
Its hard to say for sure so this is just my personal speculation based on other experiences with file hosts:
There are file hosts that operate in this way whereas there is no option to cancel membership through the UI. In ByteWhale's case its just a turnkey XFileSharingPro based file host so I'm pretty certain that he simply tweaked the code base to not provide the cancellation option.
If a payment processor gets a lot of charge backs from banks (customers claiming unauthorized renewal/rebills) then often times they will temporarily freeze a file host's account for up to 6 months pending a fraud investigation.
Therefore it is in the overall best interest for file hosts to cave in and just push through refunds. In ByteWhale's case I remember I was getting irritated by him constantly sending me PM's on Skype to inform me of another refund, so he was definitely performing refunds as of last summer (before he claims his processor froze him).
So maybe its possible the particular payment processor he chose to use didn't like the fact that it was a nuisance for users to stop the rebills and froze him. However, this is just one of many possible reasons why he got frozen.
At this point he clearly doesn't give a flying fuck about his file host as he isn't even responding in this thread. Given the way that he has been jerking me along for ~8 months, and the fact that I know he tried to sell his file host to multple people; this further makes me speculate that he is just trying to cash in whatever he can before its all taken away from him.
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I am going to report this post in hopes that maybe we can reach an ultimatum with this guy, and if not then it should be time for one of the WJunction Admins to ban this guy. If administration has any questions they know how to get a hold of me
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Added after 8 minutes:
If that's the case then he truly is. I really had faith in this guy but clearly Peter South knew what he was saying from the beginning. Too bad we didn't listen sooner.
Thanks for saying that
Unfortunately it seems that the majority of my time spent on WJunction is dealing with shitty file hosts that I get sucked into from time to time.
So in an effort to try to shift from negativity, I would suggest anyone looking for a good file host to affiliate with to look at Upstore (not sure if they're taking on new affiliates or not) and MoneyPlatform (actively supported on this forum). I've been affiliated with both file hosts for several years now and they equally set the bar very high for both their technical and financial stability and wellness.
My new rule with affiliating with a file host is simple: No more file hosts that just use turn key file hosting scripts like XFileSharingPro. Only affiliate with file hosts that built their file host from scratch. If they take the time to develop their own file host from scratch then they clearly have proven a vested interest in supporting a file host affiliate.
I have many examples from memory over the last few years of XFileSharingPro based file hosts that have screwed me over for a significant amount of money (enough to buy a brand new mid-priced car). It never once has turned out well for me to affiliate with these types of file hosts.
