Comments on: BlueFur Monster Blog Hosting Deal

By: Gary Jones

Gary Jones — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 02:37:32 +0000

You benefit from having web hosts that pay $100+ affiliate fees per sign-up. If all the other hosts on your sites have negative reviews then of course people will use your positive reviewed affiliate hosts.

Look at your Top 3 US hosts. They all pay very high affiliate fees but have next to no bad reviews. I can do a quick search and find 100’s and 100’s of bad reviews of those hosts. Mysteriously they are not listed on your site.

I can not trust any review of a person that does not provide proof they were using our service. I notice you also danced around the fact that there is no way to reply or remove any fake reviews.

“I’m not asking anyone to trust me, I’m just stating the reviews on that page are legitimate & audited to ensure their legitimacy.”

To know that the are legitimate we would actually have to trust you which your not asking anyone to do (and which I don’t).

By: David McKendrick

David McKendrick — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 02:26:50 +0000

Gary,
I actually have an awful lot more to gain from all of the companies on my site having positive reviews. Affiliate programs pay much more than my own clients do.

The whois ‘history’ for each of those users’ reviews show they’re legitimate clients. Sadly, it appears your users (one of which is still hosted with you based on the DNS I see) chose to not display them to the public when posting the reviews.

I’m not asking anyone to trust me, I’m just stating the reviews on that page are legitimate & audited to ensure their legitimacy.

By: Gary Jones

Gary Jones — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 02:09:23 +0000

The whois of what domains? Your site does not show any domains. It shows people with Fake names with libel remarks with no ability to reply or remove them if they are not in fact real.

I also don’t think you and your site has received favourable reviews:

http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=651317&highlight=hostjury

Not to mention the fact that you own a competitor hosting company who would benefit from unfavourable fake reviews. Why anyone should trust your site is beyond me.

By: David McKendrick

David McKendrick — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 20:32:53 +0000

Gary,
As the owner & operator of HostJury I find that a tad unbelievable. Based on the whois records a number of them (if not all) have hosted with you in the past.

If you have any discrepancies you would like to discuss please contact me at feedback@hostjury.com

By: Gary Jones

Gary Jones — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 20:23:50 +0000

I did a search for all of the customers names that posted those libel statements and none of them appear as customers that have ever had hosting with us.

I am sure that with 6000+ customers were bound to have people that aren’t happy.

Here is a list of people that are happy and posted reviews:

http://www.webhostingunleashed.com/bluefur/

By: gsv13

gsv13 — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 18:03:56 +0000

Was about to buy the plan then decided to check there review on google found http://hostjury.com/reviews/BlueFur
Thanks John! My current host looks better.

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By: Israel

Israel — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 02:38:19 +0000

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