I used their hosting for 1 year, when I was coming to the end of the 1 year term I was browsing their package deals and clicked on one to find out more info - unfortunately this click, without warning, meant I had upgraded my package automatically! I didn't have to enter any card details and was never shown any terms and conditions before the purchase. They used my card details that had been stored on their system from a year ago when I first signed up - I didn't even realise they still had the details!



I immediately called to say what had happened and ask that the purchase be cancelled. I was told that it's not possible to cancel and get a refund as the upgrade had taken effect immediately. Apparently this is all in the terms and conditions, which incidentally are available on a completely different website of theirs. According to distance selling law in the UK it required that you are shown terms and conditions before making a purchase. I was told that they could not (ie. would not) do anything over the phone and that if I had a problem I had to write a letter to the complaints department.



The operator kindly gave me the WRONG address for the complaints department, so the first letter I wrote came back to me a week later, unopened. I then looked up their complaints address on the internet and resent the letter, recorded delivery. In it I explained that I had not intended to make the hosting purchase and as evidence of this I had called them straight after the purchase happened. I also described how I had been duped into making the purchase without any warning or second chances, and apparently without the possibility of a refund. Furthermore, contrary to distance selling law, without being shown terms and conditions. I stated in the letter that if I did not have a response within 10 days I would issue a claim against them in County Court.



Sure enough within 10 days their customer services emailed me to say that I was wrong, but they would refund the money anyway - as a gesture of goodwill. Thanks Webfusion, thanks a lot for the goodwill. As a gesture of my goodwill I am writing this review.