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I specifically created a profile so I could comment or reply to posts about Mainstreet Host.

I was cold called by some commented out from this commented out company as Incredible Help stated he said Im returning your call about SEO servicesthis was LD from New York area so I was a little puzzled and said I never called you. When he insisted that I did call him I told him he was an idiot. He laughed as if he was some harmless soul who only wanted to help me out.

He went on about their services and how they are the greatest and that they can put my website on 6,000 search engines withing three months! I didnt even think there were that many SEs this was about 4 years ago but dont even think there are that many today, are there? Anyhow, innocently, I told them that I wasnt ready for SEO yet as my website had still to be finished. When I told him my budget was under $600.00 he immediately went on about how his websites are the best, awesome, I wouldnt be sorry, and he would skyrocket my status on the web in no time and create my site for only an extra $400.00!!! So the total would be about $1,000.00 for website, support, SEO, website creation and maintainence etc for one yearI thought that this was ok since a good site was approx 5K back then.

I warned him that I was very picky and that Id be a pain if things didnt pan out the way I was promised. Well, the webmaster called me finally after two weeks (I had to email them about 5 times first), and we started working out the site plan. I spend countless hours sizing and resizing pictures, figuring out the text, fonts, backgrounds etcbasically I did all the work and they simply put it in html.

The site actually never launched. Why? Because it took them 4 months to complete two pages and poor ones at that. The graphics were horrendous, cut the wrong way, streched, discolored and too small. Layouts were horrible. I spend many many hours at one point in the whole frustrating process, actually designing the page myself on Word which turned out fantastic and eyecatching the only thing it needed was HTML!

The commented out didnt even know how to do the html properly! Didnt know how to crop and size the photos or centre text even! Agoninzing I tell you. So after about 6 months the 5 ugly webpages were finished. I told them over and over I didnt like what they were doing, not what i asked for etcto deaf ears.

At one point, the commented out that originally called me out of the blue heavens, called me and sort of threatened me also. He said what do you expect for $1,000, miracles?? You should have gone with the higher package. I had originally told him that I could not afford the fee at the time and thats when he went into Ill give you a great discount and create a package to suit your budget.

He didnt tell me the that the package was worth nothing. I had sucker written all over me because at the time, I knew NOTHING about SEO etcbut I learned real quick. So after commented out me around for months and withdrawing the money from my card, they still had not even submitted my site to ANY of the search engines!

I was investigating them long before the six months were up. I had tried also to get my payments stopped but, VISA doesnt do that for their patrons, be warned! Before I launched them to the curb, and after for months, I investigated submissions, link popularity, the html on the site, just everything that you check for to see if a website is done correctly to be fully optimized.

What do you know, the commented out never submitted my site to ANY SES! At all. I did multiple searches with multiple keywords on multiple engines on a routine basis. NOTHING. I also did robot checks, spider checks, you name it. NOTHING. EVER.

And on top of this, I found numerous errors in the site and in the meta tags, keywords; all of it was wrong and poorly designed. Im sticking to the main details but I have a folder two inches thick with all the facts. I had asked for a refund but of course the commented out said no way. He did his part. Tough. Sol.

So I decided that I would go to VISA and get the refund there. WRONG. Visa are a bunch of commented out also. They dont give a fig about their clients. Before all the money was paid, VISA said the whole amount had to be paid before I could file a claim to get it back! I should have lost my card and stopped services immediately. I did do this as soon as the amount was paid after a few payments.

I got someone else to steal the site from under their nose and host it elsewhere. I waited on VISA for an answer after spending months putting together my report which was 16 pages long. I spoke to numerous reps at VISA only to get commented out around some more.

In the end, they sent me a letter stating that I was not eligible for a refund as I had authorized the sale. DUH, VISA. I commented out know this. If thats that was their policy, why didnt they just say, know what, youre sol, take a nap, have a nice life instead of telling me to write this report which took me a LONG TIME TO DO.

Because I was so thorough in my investigation and had the facts and proof of poor service printed from the web onto paper, I thought surely, they would see the obvious. I even printed out the site I had requested and the site I got and that wasnt enough. I checked thousands of SEs, large, small, all kinds and typed them onto a chart along with details of whether or not my site was listed. Well that goes to show you we are controlled by commented out.

I also want to say the Mainstreethost.com is seriously run by commented out, or commented out. I mean this honestly. I was also afraid for a time when I got crappy with them and they were a little threatening. I dont recall exactly what the guy said but I remember thinking that if I pursued this and won, I would probably be hit.

So even though I went to VISA, I also felt a little relieved that I lost although I shouldnt have, because they had my address and knew where to find me. Since then, my credit card is new (different number), my addresss and phone number are also different from the info they had on me before.

So the moral of the story is: if you can do something on your own, dont hire anyone else to do it. I have learned a lot since then; I do my own submissions and all that and have pretty decent luck. Mainstreet Host did absolutely nothing but cause me extreme anxiety and stress and robbed me $1,000.00. Sorry about this long post and probably some spelling errors as Im going fast here. Had to get it out. Hope someone gets them one day and puts them out of business for good. Then again, we have forums like this one and there are blogs arent there? Yup.