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TagBridge - hosting scam or at least the worst deal

Jamie Wyatt + TagBridge + PulseInternet + Lies = this long story

You’ll definetly want to read if you’re in the hosting industry or simply to understand how things work when people “sell” their company and disappear.

I’ll be honest with you, I’ve kept this as draft as Jamie made a good first impression, he never resolved the issue, he completely vanished….

You’ll hate me after reading this, but the company that I have advertised for on this blog as PulseInternet.co.uk owned by Jamie Wyatt and then transformed into TagBridge.net is more of a scam than a hosting company, and I’ll come with facts to support this.

I was hosted by PulseInternet back in 2007, early 2008 - with a sponsored VPS, a decent one, I’d say it worth about $40/mo. Jamie Wyatt contacted me on MSN, after watching my digitalpoint threads. He then proposed the VPS deal if I advertise on my main social network mylol.net and also create an article about his company on Scorpiono.com. I’ve did it, and actually the article contains true facts, pulse was doing quite good and the support was wonderful, why? To get a good feedback! I might have been one of the few that got this treatment from the support team just to talk nice, as Jamie knew I wouldn’t kiss the company’s ass for a VPS. I did more than requested, I’ve made a few sales and the affiliate % money were starting to add in my account. My first suspicion came after I’ve seen that after 2 and a half months, the same amount of money (1 month payment) was counted by the affiliate system. Therefor, if the buyer will go for 1 year payment plan, I’ll only get 1 month in my affiliate funds. Nice trick huh? Well, maybe just a simple bug or my miscalcultion.

June 2008 - I’ve sold mylol.net on SitePoint and had to give my VPS (the sponsored one) to the new owner, so I’ve told Jamie Wyatt that the new owner is willing to pay for 1 year - $500 USD. He was thrilled, but he knew he could pull out more from me, so I’ve decided to bonus Jamie a $50 if the files of my other websites hosted on the VPS were to be transfered imediately. Money?! Instant transfer.. woot! Who doesn’t like money? No problem..

I’ve been moved to a shared server and promised a new vps for making sales worth of over $500 - but guess what happens meanwhile? Jamie sells TagBridge.net to someone from US called TheCrazedKing. I knew about this move a few weeks ago, before Jamie’s 18th birthday (Yes, 18th), when I was noticed that the company is on negative profit, so he has to quick sell for $50,000 - the future will reserve TheCrazedKing as the buyer.

One week ago, I asked Jamie about my payment and the VPS that was promised. Yes, he managed to provide a VPS with LxAdmin which got canceled instantly by the new owner a few days later. I have borrowed Jamie money for cPanel license payment, so he can fully sell the company. (what?! TagBridge can’t affort $20? - seems not). Still no VPS working.

If I mentioned affiliate money, or vps, I would get ignored and Jamie would simply vanish or tell me to AIM the new owner. *Do I care?!* But I did, I talked to TheCrazedKing (the brand new owner) on AIM, he was so revolved he decided that he will sue Jamie Wyatt and his partner for selling him the company that was nowhere close as they said in the first place. The AIM discussion got me to one conclusion, this guy got pretty screwed as well now, because after the sale most of the customers ran away or asked for refund, and most of us were “sponsored” users, so basically, he had few people actually paying the bills. Wonder where the customers went? Well few days ago Jamie kindly asked me if I need hosting. I was like, outraged, it was such a kick in the nuts to see him asking for MORE money after the affiliate % of $500 I got scammed, the $50 for transfer, the $20 for the cPanel license and everything, he wanted to host me now. *cough* Imagine where TagBridge’s customers are right now? On his private servers most likely..

I’ve purchased my own VPS now, with money on the table and I’m not going to get into any affiliation with any hosting company whatsoever from now on, because it doesn’t worth the fuss.

This blog post was made for a few reasons: some might see revenge, but I know how *sucker* you can feel after the whole experience, and the “hey, need hosting?” in the end from Jamie. I totally recommend you guys to stay away from TagBridge’s hosting, as right now, mylol.net (prepaid $500 vps) is down for 3 days for connectivity issues, and well.. he represents the few that actually pay!! Affiliating with TagBridge or Jamie Wyatt is definetly something you will regret, I have a very bad taste in my mouth at the moment, I had a wonderful opinion about him when I met him, but started to sense something was fishy from the day he was thinking of selling TagBridge.

Heads up people, web hosting is a jungle full of tigers, lions, bears and scammers.
Scorpiono,

2 Comments so far

1. 1.

   funkysouth says:

   On August 21, 2008at 10:28 am

   who are you hosting with now ?

2. 2.

   Scorpiono says:

   On August 21, 2008at 10:53 am

   Jay - a friend of mine, check out http://www.scorpiono.com/hosting

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