Overflowing with seedbox offers and scam

[nbo]

Hello all,
Times have changes and I must say things are getting really out of hand.
A year ago if you wanted great speeds you would get a dedicated server and pay a lot of money of rent a VPS. There was always this one exception for those without crazy funds, just one called leeware. For $10 a month (later $20, and then $25) you could get a small linux box with 20GB HD and unlimited bandwith.

Over the past few months all these new websites began to spring out from nowhere offering shared seedboxes with limited access, either webui or some shit thing they call torrentflux, where resellers will split up the boxes and limit the amount of torrents they users have and usually give them a small amount of HDD space. I have seen these offers from as low as $4.

Now this SHOULD be a good thing, hell it should be a great think but unfortunately i'd say at least have of the offers are BS. So many websites i cant even count them, honestly after running a search today i came accross over 30 new websites. Only problem is so many of these are scamming new and old users, especailly the ones who finally can afford this but have no idea what they are getting into.

While we can't close down all of the scam websites on the net we could make it our duty to do the best we can to prevent it from entering the gates of FST. This "seedbox discussion" forum is only going downhill since every other thread is highjacked by some schmuck dealer who is trying to get ppl to sign up for his seedbox services but not only do they advertise but they create 2-3 accounts and pretend to be satisfied customers.

Maybe these new users should not be able to access this forum (like the trading section), if a user needs to be registered for a month and have written say 30 msgs, maye these idiots will stop waisiting thier time here and spam other forums.

[Skiz]

This "seedbox discussion" forum is only going downhill since every other thread is highjacked by some schmuck dealer who is trying to get ppl to sign up for his seedbox services but not only do they advertise but they create 2-3 accounts and pretend to be satisfied customers.

Maybe these new users should not be able to access this forum (like the trading section), if a user needs to be registered for a month and have written say 30 msgs, maye these idiots will stop waisiting thier time here and spam other forums.

Hit the Report button when you see advertiser and we'll remove the post and ensure it doesn't happen again.

I'll bring up the 30 day thing in the Team section.

[viper151]

That is true.
In the past week i've seen almost 5 members to post their seedbox offers.
The most tragic is that those members do not know how to setup correctly a seedbox and the server is crashing, they do not know how to use quotas and more.. I made a big mistake ordering from a member in here.They think that without even knowning nothing about seedboxes they can make money.

[nbo]

This "seedbox discussion" forum is only going downhill since every other thread is highjacked by some schmuck dealer who is trying to get ppl to sign up for his seedbox services but not only do they advertise but they create 2-3 accounts and pretend to be satisfied customers.

Maybe these new users should not be able to access this forum (like the trading section), if a user needs to be registered for a month and have written say 30 msgs, maye these idiots will stop waisiting thier time here and spam other forums.

Hit the Report button when you see advertiser and we'll remove the post and ensure it doesn't happen again.

I'll bring up the 30 day thing in the Team section.

Thanks, report is good but don't forget that it doesnt prevent them from opening another 20 accounts that day.

[tasker12]

Okay. I can confirm seedhost.net as a legit host. Got a testaccount there and I did 11mb/s down.

Check my join date.

[Skiz]

Hit the Report button when you see advertiser and we'll remove the post and ensure it doesn't happen again.

I'll bring up the 30 day thing in the Team section.

Thanks, report is good but don't forget that it doesnt prevent them from opening another 20 accounts that day.

Actually, it does. We regulate that aspect quite well.

And if we instituted the 30 day policy for this section as well, it would eliminate any that slip through our fingers.

[Skiz]

30 day rule now applies to the Seedbox section.

[ben99]

30 day rule now applies to the Seedbox section.

great news, hopefully it will limit the amount of fake satisfied customers that has been popping up in this section.

[Kuttichan]

also, it might be helpful, if FST provide some special tag to some trustful seedbox resellers here like dance04, seeplace, slayer..etc

[cstrik3]

30 day rule now applies to the Seedbox section.

Great news!!

Finally that scammers will leave us..

[nbo]

30 day rule now applies to the Seedbox section.

wow, thats great. I gotta be honest i didnt really think it would do much and i am pleasantly surprised.
Great job.
Hopefully this forum will now be a better and more reliable source.:clap::clap::clap:

[interwebz]

thats good, 30 day rule should apply to all sections except for the most generic ones. now maybe we'll see a decrease in "seedblank.whatever" type URL's all over the place. :)

[slayer2005]

Hopfully the fst staff can sort the good honest sb sellers from the dodgy ones.

[nbo]

i think all shady sellers should be reported and banned, while the good ones should be repped by the users with comments about the services provided to them, thus the seller can prove a positive feedback.

[Skiz]

Right now, we are not encouraging or allowing rep for seedbox sellers as there should not be any business conducted on the site.

[Sanka113]

Maybe there should be a seedbox community rep status that can be given when earned. Not only will it it help members differentiate between legit operations it will allow members to know who to go to if they have a question regarding support and whatnot.

[nbo]

As it may seem like a good idea it does not sound very realistic.

Instead I think there should be a thread with real confirmed sites and reviews, something large and helpful with lots of information.

This can assist most members seeking to purchase a seedbox, especially today with so many new web sites popping up which are part scam and part real while some offer product that seem so good to be true and on the other hand you would not want to miss out on them.

This way we will have a better idea of what is legit and what is not, as it will also prevent tons of new reoccurring posts asking if XXX is a good reseller or not.

[meelad]

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[Sanka113]

As it may seem like a good idea it does not sound very realistic.

Instead I think there should be a thread with real confirmed sites and reviews, something large and helpful with lots of information.

This can assist most members seeking to purchase a seedbox, especially today with so many new web sites popping up which are part scam and part real while some offer product that seem so good to be true and on the other hand you would not want to miss out on them.

This way we will have a better idea of what is legit and what is not, as it will also prevent tons of new reoccurring posts asking if XXX is a good reseller or not.

So they should have a thread similar to that of the "WTAW" except with server provider sites?

[nbo]

As it may seem like a good idea it does not sound very realistic.

Instead I think there should be a thread with real confirmed sites and reviews, something large and helpful with lots of information.

This can assist most members seeking to purchase a seedbox, especially today with so many new web sites popping up which are part scam and part real while some offer product that seem so good to be true and on the other hand you would not want to miss out on them.

This way we will have a better idea of what is legit and what is not, as it will also prevent tons of new reoccurring posts asking if XXX is a good reseller or not.

So they should have a thread similar to that of the "WTAW" except with server provider sites?

mmm more or less (no levels of course:D), or maybe even something like the WTO thread

[DV8type]

Good Move FST