Gene Baker (support@8814hosting.com)
Text Ad Exchange Sale and hosting
cookeville, Tennessee
On 7/15th My partner and I purchased a Text Ad Exchange Business, that was fully equipped and operational from Mr. Gene Baker, from his website, http://8814hosting.com. We contacted Mr. Baker to discuss the purchase of this website, at that time he informed us, that the cost of the website was $45.00 for the website. We expressed our interest, the following day, and contacted him to find out, how he would except payment, because there was no Alertpay icon on the website, and that is how we intended to pay, he in turn told us he does except Alertpay and gave me his Alertpay address to forward the payment too, which was bizman59@gmail.com. Once he received the payment, he forward the backoffice information and mentioned, that he was also, able to host the website, if that is what we chose to do. My intentions were to ONLY purchase the website from Mr. Baker and obtain hosting, with another provider. Before making the decision to do so, my partner talked with Mr Baker, on the phone, the conversation was a bit upsetting, as Mr. Baker, felt the need to have access to the password to the back office, and the control panel. My partner explained to Mr. Baker at that time, that she did not think, I would be in agreement with him having access to our backoffice, and told him she would get back in touch or I would to discuss what was mentioned. I emailed Mr. Baker not long after talkiing to my partner, and telling her, I was not agreeing to that, because we were going to be the owners, and private information is added into these sites, and felt there was no need for Mr. Baker to have access any longer. He also, felt, he had a right, to put his advertising all over the site, as he pleased, and that was something, I felt was totally wrong, being that it no longer belonged to him. When we got the website turned over to us it in turn was up and fully operational and equipped. My partner and I were in the backoffice changing things around, and in turn doing the things we needed to do, to get ready to run a business. Throughout the time, we were in there, Mr. Baker felt the need to go in the back office without our permission, so we in turn changed the password. I asked him to no longer go into the site, without informing us he had intentions of doing so, and then felt, after mentioning he wanted control and also,. telling my partner, that if we didn't give him access, he could in turn go into the control panel and get it, without our consent, I knew we had a problem , and I told my partner, we were not going to use him for hosting, and seek hosting for the site elsewhere. This is all one day of just buying the site. I contacted Mr. Baker explaining, that were going to be using another person to host the website we just purchased from him and from that moment on, he started doing manipulative things, that were causing errors, and it was one issue after another. He was telling us, he didn't know what was going on, and he would need to contact his webmaster or someone that was helping him and he would get back to us. Well things were continously, getting worse as the day went on, and the last straw was when he shut the hosting down completely on the site./ When my partner approached him about it, he said I gave you a day, to get your hosting changed over and accused us of expecting FREE hosting, and said we were trying to rip him off. My partner was so upset over this, and said we just purchased the site today from you, how are we suppose to get everything changed over in a day, and we are new to TextAd Exchange ownership we would at least need two days, to get things going. He was just so abrupt and over and over stating we were trying to get free hosting, and just crazy stuff that made NO sense at all. Why or how could we ever think we would get anything for nothing, nor why would he even be accusing us of this, when we just got done paying him for a new business. How he came up with us trying to scam him or rip him off was horrible and a VERY BAD way to conduct business, knowing all along he was the one doing the scamming. We finally got him to forward the files over so we could forward them to the new hosting, and when we got the hosting guy to upload them, we in turn found the website to be completely EMPTY! He wiped out everything that was there, and the site was and still is just a background, header and footer, and all the information banners and work we did, while we had it, was and is GONE! He in turn wiped our business right out, and is now, stating that he gave us all that we need to get it back up! It has been a complete nightmare. We purchased a business NOT a script with just images. That is NOT what we paid for and is not what we want , so we are in turn asking for a Refund to our account immediately! We had contacted Mr. Baker several times to try and resolve this issue, and all he wants to do, is keep accusing us, and turning around the scamming he did to us, on my partner and myself! Here is what the website looks like now, http://www.dragonslairtextads.net
The files were so corrupted before he sent us the complete file, that NOW no one is able to even signup to the site. But yet he is insisting, he forwarded the original file the way the site was when we purchased it. Scamming is NOT the word! This is the link, http://8814hosting.com where we bought the site from and if you click on any of the one's he has for sale, you will SEE, they are ALL up and running businesses, and that is EXACTLY what Dragon's Lair was before he did all this damage. It's been an absolute nightmare for both myself and my partner and all over a $45.00 website, that was once suppose to be a complete business. It's not about the money so much, it was he did to us, and all because we did not go with hosting through him and felt he did not need to control the sitr any longer once we purchased it! SO BEWARE, DO NOT Buy a Site or hosting from this guy Mr. Gene Baker, I can PROMISE YOU, YOU WILL in fact, have serious issues!