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As an ex-employee I can say that HIT Web Design, formerly known as Heritage Web Solutions, was once a great company to work for. Unfortunately this is no longer the case.
I had worked there for 2 and a half years and in the past year, HIT (who changed their name to run away from their bad reputation) has seriously gone down hill. It supposedly all started when customers began charging back on their credit cards due to a flurry of bad complaints in a scared economy (which actually never happened, they are just very greedy).
Needless to say the company is ran very unprofessionally. They were once the leaders in custom website design but have now abandoned their business model...
When you treat your employees so poorly they will not give the customers the kind of help they need. That is why there are so many customer and employee complaints.
This all has now come to a head as Utah's ABC4 News will soon be airing an investigative report on how HIT Web Design has lied and cheated their customers. The ABC4 News crew showed up Friday October 16th to interview employees on what has been going on.
The air date has yet to be released so please contact Annie Cutler of ABC4 News to express your disgust with HIT Web Design/ Heritage Web Solutions at [protected]@abc4.com
Let's make sure HIT Web Design will not continue doing this to customers!
i am also an ex-employee this as all true! i believe that the ABC 4 news story will air later this week.
HIT Web Design will do whatever they need to in order to safe face and the company as a whole. No matter what, we all know their business is going down the toilet when all they do is ask for more and more from their customers and employees and give nothing in return.
Dave Aitken, CEO at HIT, is ignorant to think that just because employees make good money (or atleast used to), that it is considered treating them fairly. Is that fair? NO!
Well said. HIT's customers have no idea how bad it really is there and its disgusting how HIT management are such cowards as to deny the truth that has mounted up before them.
They should just "man up", "dial the phone" and admit they are the ### we all know they are!
WOW! Things are worse than I thought...
Someone who knows, it seems you have some great perspective on this. I do not apologize for anything that I've said but I should not have called Dave and Jeremy "uneducated idiots". It is not easy to create a business as successful as HIT once was.
It is disappointing that they have abused their power and have got so greedy over time.
Someone who knows, thank you for your words, integrity and honesty.
What a good way to discredit everything, "grow up please". But it all ties into speech patterns, which, by nature, cannot be manipulated. all the postings have very distinct, and different, speech patterns. you know that "grow up please" is Dave Aitken..
Now Dave, you know you can not speak out of both sides of your mouth, even though we know you try! You would send emails stating that our compensation was so good we couldn't find work anywhere else to make the money we needed to support our families. That was EXTREMLEY intimidating and the money was the only thing that kept us there. THIS IS WHY PEOPLE WERE NOT WALKING OUT!
You would also tell us that there was no where to go and it was a dead job market but we are welcome to leave if we were unhappy. WHAT A MIND GAME! HOW DECEPTIVE!
I was told by a manager that they "only need one more paycheck and im out of here!"
Now Dave, dont do what everyone thinks you are going to do and flip out. I would sit down with your managers, suck up to them and let them know how much you appreciate them.
Or, maybe you could send one of your oh-so-powerful threatening emails. This is your choice...
Just to reitterate, "donebeingbullied" is referring to Dave Aitken's, aka "GrowUpPlease", threat to Bryce Turpin.
Dave was assumptive, as usual, in stating that Bryce is posting while he is at work.
I am paraphrasing as this thread is becoming VERY long...
Ryan, you are a smart guy and have been nothing but helpful to employees who asked you for help at anytime. I am sorry that they stuck you in the middle of this.
By your understanding you know HIT management to be reasonable and sensitive. You have never (for atleast the 2 and a half years i worked there) had close association with the sales team and how it was ran.
Please don't put yourself out there saying that HIT management is reasonable and sensitive. You dont have the capabilities to make a blanket statement like that. You have no idea what hell everyone on the sales team went through to bring in the money to support their families! There was even a sales manager who was constantly humiliated just to "motivate" the sales team. How sad is that?! This same sales manager was very sick one day and was forced to come in. He puked in front of everyone! How embarrassing!
THAT IS NOT SENSITIVE OR FAIR AND THIS ALL HAPPENED ALL THE TIME!
I know you have a nice family to support and need to protect the place you work at but please dont make blanket statements when crap like that is happening.
Also, why would HIT need to be told to be more sensitive or aware of family emergencies? That is basic business ethics.
The mere psychology of your post lets us all know that you are somewhat siding with us subconsciously, most likely due to the lack of training management/supervisors are given.
Every single person at HIT is encouraged to sell.
Just in the past week there has been a major change. There is no sales team!
The sales team has been absolved and lumped in to the account managers department.
Does this sound like a company that may have a problem here or there and may "stub their toe" once in a while? NO!
This all just makes the comments by HIT management all that more laughable.
It just goes to show that HIT is in a state of disrepair.
This is all very sad and I don't think that anything is going to change until we take this a step further...
You can contact Annie at ABC 4 at the email address annie@abc4.com...
The rest of the contact info is on my original complaint.
This is just like Dave... he loves to butter people up and make them feel good so he can use that as leverage at their most crucial moments.
Trust me, Dave is not this altruistic.
Not sure if Greg is unemployed by HIT - or if he's just working from home to save face for the company... Why would a company with this much greed ever actually get rid of someone who can manipulate an old lady with a severance check to use her social security check to line their pockets? ... hmmm... perhaps someone should try calling their sales line and ask for him, you might be surprised at the results.. unless you are familiar with the company. Then you wouldn't be surprised at all when they get him on the phone.
Yes and its a bunch of crap... just disregard it with a laugh and ignore it. There is nothing they can do to you. There is so much evidence that they are horrible, unethical business owners that would be foolish to even think about pursuing "legal action" against you.
Before I left on my own free will, months actually, HIT was hitting $30-40, 000 in revenue daily! This was expected and it was quite dreadful to management when we fell below this norm.
Now the latest from the HIT sales team... 3 days in a row at $12000 in revenue or less!
Having worked there 2 and a half years, 3 horrible days is deffinitley hurting their business. I've even got word from some employees that customers are sending links to reps from specific complaints done right here on complaintsboard.com.
These customers are demanding their accounts be cancelled! Let's hope this trend continues...
Actually they are failing miserably.
Plus, why would anyone take a stand for a company they have no relation to?
Thanks for trying though.
idiotswillalwayscomplain,
im sorry you are stuck at HIT. Obviously you have no where else to go. I'm sorry if we are harming the place you work at and we all would be mad if we were still there too because it would be hurting our paycheck.
The truth is, I have great friends that work there and they are amazing salespeople. Heck, I might even know you! We are not here to destroy your paycheck, in fact HIT is already doing that to you. We do not want you to fail but we do want HIT to change their ways. At HIT we had no voice! This is the only voice we have for the time being. Hopefully all of our collective complaints have been heard through out the state and government agencies we have made them to. There is only one way to fix HIT and hopefully bring it back to the positioning it was once in...
The Aitkens must go. I don't even think that is possible since they own a majority of the company from my understanding, but it is the only way. They once had HIT in a great position and it was the best place to work, now they have ran it in to the ground.
I really wish you the best of luck. There are many options for employment, employment that will pay you and treat well for the effort you put in.
wow "culture of fear" describes HIT perfectly.
By the way, Mark Strong and other HIT management have told their sales reps to say the same things to clients as Mark presented in the interview.
Its all fluff to make people feel good. The customer does not buy it in the end.
It may have worked for Mark because he is a nice, stately man who was speaking face to face with the news anchor. This is also why it hasn't aired.
I QUIT after the let one of the top consistant performers on the sales team go. This guy was awesome. He was always in the top 3 sales people pay period after pay period. Great guy with a nice wife and a few kids.
He was let go as an example that we were all expendable!
How sick is that! I was near tears to see him walk out, knowing he was going to have to go home, tell his wife he was fired and then hunt for a new job when he had kids to feed. I could not work for people that are vendictive as they are.
If you go to HIT management and try to talk about making $600 on a paycheck when you have earned them $20, 000 in a pay period is unfair they will say "So what?! We have kids to feed too!" (direct words from Jeremy Aitken). Keep in mind a pay period that productive would yeild a sales person atleast a check between $[protected] before management got greedy.
HIT sure is GREAT!
Now that is just greed... why would they fire someone and then say "oh you can work from home for us!"
Once again, they have no business sense at all.
awesome-company,
we all know you are not this altruistic.
In this case I think HIT was duped and was embarrassed to tell their employees that it really wasnt "national news".
It was deceitful as all employees thought that it was going to be a big break for HIT.
My_Compaint,
The reason they haven't been able to push our comments away is because they no next to nothing in regards to search engine optimization.
They follow antiquated SEO principles. They still think that meta keywords are KING! HIT tells their sales people to tell the customer that only custom sites can be optimized but templates easily can.
That will soon change as they are switching to template sites starting January 1, 2010.
TO MEDICINE AND ALL OTHERS WHO ARE TRYING TO DEFEND HIT...
It doesn't matter what you say or do at this point. You came in to this thread to late in the ball game!
This thread has been optimized for many phrases that are being searched when family, friends, ex-employees, customer, ex-customers and current employees search for "hit web design abc4". Just Google it.
Now if we do a quick search for "bad business abc4" (as we all know ABC4 is known for their investigative reports and consumer call to action stories) we pull HIT Web Design up in the number 2 spot. Ouch.
And YIKES! When we search for our favorite web design company under their new name "HIT Web Design" we find complaints immediatley under their own site. Bummer.
Sorry guys, try as you might but you are screwed.
Your business is failing and you are watching the ruins crumble.
Try doing something legitimate about it. You guys must be in real bad shape if you need to get on this board and monitor every little thing people are saying about you.
I wonder if the CEO of Wal-Mart does this?
Geez, you are right! What was I thinking?!
They know how huge they are, they don't need to stroke their own egos to prove it.
You know what I think is neat? If someone were to do a google image search for "Design by HWS" a TON of Heritage/HIT's websites come up. There usually is some contact info on the sites.
What could be done with that info?
Ryan, what about the grievances? I know for a fact Turpin's grievance is 100% legit as I was there.
Please address this. Thank you.
Ethicalhit,
If that is the correct link, it looks like he took it down.
What's there to be ashamed of Ryan?
This must be quite a bit for Ryan to take in. Notice he isnt saying anything...
By the way, accoridng to a source who is still at HIT Web Design, at te begginning of the year they had 400 employees and now they have about a tenth of that left!
January first there were 25 sales representative on the "sales team" now there are 7.
What a wonderful company! I'm glad to see they are doing so well.
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Is there anyone on this thread that still works there. I am curious to know if the Account Managers have taken over the designing of the sites now. I was in a meeting there when they announced the AM's were going to be designing the sites and they were going to fire all the outsource designers without telling them. Here is the interesting comment that was made by both Aitken's, this new software they built would allow the AM's to design the entire site in less than a week, even while the customer was on the phone with them they could create the design, and the customer could see it in real time, this new software is a template though, but we were told not to tell the customers that it was a template. If that is the case wouldn't the customer feel ripped off if you designed the site while on the phone in a matter of minutes? I for one would be pissed.
So if they launch this now wouldn't the AM now be the salesman, designer, and content gatherer. Let's put more responsibility on a certain department and still cut the pay by 15%, that doesn't include how they screwed around with the commission structure, making it harder to even get commission.
whatever happened to this mentality?
#87
“It’s common for a new business owner to find their time eaten up by managing the finances. A significant amount of your time is spent worrying about generating new revenue and the ongoing demands of normal business expenses and the occasional financial surprise. During the startup period money seems to be all you have time to worry about. “If I could go back and start my business over again, I would spend a lot more time focusing on creating extremely strong fulfillment and customer feedback systems. Managing cash flow is critical but it won’t matter much if you lose your customer base in the process.” DAVID AITKEN, founder of Heritage Web Solutions in Provo
http://utahvalleybusinessq.com/features/starting-a-business-101/
Whew,
We put together a huge rally for the last 15 minutes of the day and with the help of our nightshift made it to within 4k of our goal. The key today is to adjust our focus and shoot for the 75K level to make up for the missed revenue yesterday.
Hitting 75K is well within our reach, we just have to make sure that every single one of us remains focused on the goal and doing the right things to make it happen. Getting out of the gates quickly is going to be key and I need everyone dialing the phones and helping potential and current customers starting right when you get in.
Lets make today great,
David Aitken
P.S. If your position is based around calling out to your customers then make sure you eliminate anything possible that gets in the way of this activity. One thing we are no longer willing to do is ask our staff to do such a basic part of there position as dialing customers or leads. If you don’t like dialing the phone and staying busy all day long with the tasks you are responsible for then it may be time for you to consider moving on. Our supervisor staff has more important things to do than ask/beg people to do the basics and I am sure that those of you who are working hard get tired of hearing it.
Remember proper effort is a part of every ones job requirements, if working as hard as we request is not something you would like to do then please move on so that we can bring in someone that is willing to do it. Its the only right and fair thing I can do for those who are here working diligently all day every day.
I this last e-mail that I just posted I really find it extremely insightful that SALES is the only thing mentioned! Never does he talk about building websites or helping customers, Dave Aitken the CEO of HIT WEB DESIGN just talks about taking people's money!
"If your position is based around calling out to your customers then make sure you eliminate anything possible that gets in the way of this activity."
As one that was formerly on the sales team, I was working there at the time this email was sent out. It was directed by the convict, er... VP of sales that this explicitly meant no responding to emails, (unless they were sales), returning calls, etc. All we were supposed to do was call people we could offer yet another exciting once in a lifetime deal to and then push it down their throats until they hung up or gave us their credit card.
They have one focus as a business and it is one that any consumer jumping into a creative process should not feel comfortable with.
I for one can't tell you enough how nice it is to do a Google search of the company you work and not find one negative thing about it. I must have just been ignorant to the fact that all these customers that were calling into HIT were just being impatient, or they are just being difficult...wrong. So one night I come home from work and get on my laptop, go to Google and type in Heritage Web Solutions. I must have read for 2 hours, complaint after complaint, I was shocked, mad, felt guilty I worked for this company. The next morning I brought it up to my Manager and I got the canned answer of "do a search on Wal-Mart and see how many complaints they have but you continue to shop there...right?". I answered "Yes I do, good point, I bought it hook line and sinker just like everyone else. But then I started to find my sales going down, I actually was feeling guilty now selling products to people. I started focusing more on helping the customer, taking on their problems, I remember trying to go around updates, asking other team members to help me get this done, etc. Giving customers my home number to try to resolve their issues by telling them the secrets to get things done faster. But it only made my job suffer, I was getting asked "why are talking to this customer if the site is live, or you should have them go to updates to get that done". "We hired you as a salesman, so act like one".
I am very thankful for the job I have now and actually get excited to go into work, to actually feel good about the money I am making with them. They appreciate my efforts, no guilt trips or poor advice is ever put on me. I compare it to coming to the United States from a third world country...jk...that is funny though.
If heritage is so bad, how come they are selling 75k-80K worth of websites each day. I am surprised they get all this business in spite of their bad reputation. I am a small 1 person company in SLC and I just got a client coming to me after being ripped off by HIT. How do they do it ? do they have like 200 people on phones calling random businesses? I am trying to grow by business and I am just amazed that HIT gets a lot of business while they reputation is bad and their website looks like its been designed by a teenager.
They get the business by offering false promises - a price that your business wouldn't be able to touch with features you've probably never even heard of. At the end of the day, HIT isn't able to touch a website for the price they've sold it for and they don't even have designers working for them anymore after letting them all go and switching to a template.
And those $ figures are very outdated. My VERY TRUSTWORTHY source on Friday said they were at $4, 000 around 2pm MDT. Not sure what they ended at, but I guarantee it was not close to 30k, let alone 75-80k by the end of the day.
How can I guarantee that? HIT Management or someone related to them would have surely posted something on here about it.
justinkp,
That e-mail that I posted was sent to the entire company in July. It was sent to me recently. From my sources thost 75k days are long gone, and they are hitting 12k - 30k a day now.
We need to make sure that we keep protecting other people from using Hit Web Design's service
Its funny that HIT is advertising right here on this forum- this shows how stupid they are. Not sure how they passed the GAP test. Anybody who works with Google Adwords know how to exclude certain sites. They should first fore the person who manages their adwords. If they cant manage their own basics, how can they manage stuff for others.
hmmmm, wonder where you idiots get these figure from. HIT is kicking ###! There are no templates, everything is customized
Hey "awesome-company" is back everyone!
how can they manage payroll ? I guess they attract just paupers as their employees now at $8.50 and hour. My client is so pissed with them. I told her its her fault for choosing a company like HIT, you get what you pay for. At $1500 you can only get crap and templates. The poor lady did not even get anything worth $20 by the way. I have suggested her to do what ethical has mentioned above, she is however just ready to move on and cut loss.
She has seen this threads and complaints, she is one of the many who just let go things. I can see HIT getting away with thousands of such customers who just take their business away instead of head banging with HIT.
That is a big drop, Karma for sure !
How many employees do they have. From the video, it looks like they have a very big office.
I think their current employees will have a problem in their future careers when their new company does a background check and find that they worked for a fraudulent company and were a part of their unethical tactics.
Wow Medicine,
Looks like you have taken a page from an old playbook. Trying to spam a thread is a good tactic. Hopefully soon, the moderators will remove your 29 comments that you have just left in this thread .
The thing is you might think that you are helping, or you might be getting paid to do this, but the thing is, there are real life people getting hurt by this company.
People getting their money taken, dreams and hopes being destroyed, and people being swindled.
Shame on you medicine for not having any sort of morals or ethics!
Hey guys did ABC ever do that article? I'd love to see it.
I love HIT, they have done 4 of my 5 sites.
I did the 5th on my own, but I regret it.
When I can afford to have them do it, I will.
Always good to hear alternative opinions though.
-SG
They helped out with my SEO problems.
Lickity split.
Wow, I should have kept reading, this gets creepy.
Between someone posting stuff that I can hardly read to the guy posting personal info of family members that work there...
Yikes.
PS. Still love my sites!
mydreams,
Would you please post on here the 5 websites that Heritage Web Solutions or Hit Web Design has made for you?
That way we can see the fine work that Heritage Web Solutions has to offer?
@ethical and others,
I think you can write to moderator at http://www.complaintsboard.com/sendmail/cn0.html to remove the spam.
Come on STOPTHEGREED -
We all know the CEO of Wal-Mart actually has a business to run... He doesn't have time to unzip and grab a ruler.
Anyone seen this ABC news report yet?
Just wondering, I'd like to see it.
Anyone seen this ABC news report yet?
I'm pretty sure it would be enlightening to see, or just as enlightening to find out it's not true.
Someone mentioned earlier in the thread that it may be hard for former employees to find jobs!?! Well I had actually been told by a 2 different places that I applied at that because I was a former employee and they were looking for honest employees, they would not hire me.
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Looks like we got all that spam removed! We are winning this fight against Hit Web Design!
so aparently its very common practice at heritage to continue charging for hosting even after a client is no longer with them. if someone pulls their site from heritage and goes somewhere else without telling heritage they continue to bill monthly. i called someone this morning from one of there lists and the person was outraged to hear from me. they moved somewhere else 2 years ago but were unaware that they had been billed $25 a month ever sinse!
very true someone who knows.
they came up on a list to sell a year of hosting to!
I was also a previous employer for Heritage Web Design. I had some wonderful clients that I considered personal friends. I first started out working for the sales department...now for the person that last posted regarding how 'good' heritage is I have to say that they do not train you on what you are selling...in fact they try to keep you away from the rest of the company so you can sell and not know you are lying about what you are selling. BUT i moved over to the account manager portion of the job and did my best...but let me say this...
IT IS HARD QUITTING A JOB WHEN THERE IS NONE OUT THERE! ESPECIALLY if the place used to be good and somehow you can still help people out. Its like a relationship that went bad...you stay around for a while even though stuff is going bad because you know things used to be good.
I was fired due to a week that I took off work (they did not give my accounts to someone else)...at least that is what the state told me when i tried getting unemployment benefits...they even had the nerve to take another Account Manager's accounts and pin them on me...just so I could not get unemployment benefits...this is after hard work for a year with them. I came back to work the next week and worked for 3 weeks with smiles from my bosses and everything. There was an account manager who was fired for slacking off and not taking care of his customers and I was given those accounts...NOW let me say this...how can you expect your employees to do good if you OVERLOAD them and give them the WORST accounts out there...they did it telling me that they trusted me with them...but then fired me because I had the most unhappy accounts...well YOU GAVE THEM TO ME! (note this was under 1 week of them giving me these 50 accounts...I suppose that they thought i was magically suppose to fix them?) Then the woman who was my boss told me she was firing me for "not having morals" because i smoked and was not married...wow talk about some "holier than thou" people running a company. She was jealous and cruel to me and to my clients. I TRIED my hardest to make these clients happy! And I was stung in the butt for it...all because I was NOT LDS! I never touch drugs...did not slack off...did not lie...did not do anything but work hard for the company and the clients who grew to be my friends... I hope this company does go down...and HARD. The only thing I dont wish for is the fact that there are innocent people just trying to make a living that will be hurt from it...but it needs to stop before more people are hurt.
I am not posting this to just 'bash' an employer. I had many friends there and made some good money HONESTLY. This company had gone down hill and the owners need to restructure their mentalities before they lose everything. i hope the best for them and the people who have had good experiences there as well as bad.
marfirestudios,
I wish I could say that your experience was unique, but as you have read on the numerous pages here on this board they are not. This company has been abusing people, and if you were discriminated for not being LDS (mormon) I suggest that you contact a lawyer IMMEDIATELY and SUE Hit Web Design! You are not the first person who has worked for Hit Web Design who has been discriminated against. I have heard separate stories of Religious discrimination. One former employee recounted a holiday when they made the entire company PRAY! OUTRAGEOUS!
If you have been discriminated by management of Hit Web Design while at work I beg you to please contact a lawyer ASAP!
Turpin,
It is more like 3 people decide to buy a website they give Heritage Web Solutions 3, 000.00 wait a few months, get nothing, then they get told that because they "began work" they can't get any money back, and they are plain and simple out of luck.
Hit Web Design would never settle for just one dollar!
Well Turpin I am familiar with all of these online complaints! It sadly is the same story over and over and over again. I personally wouldn't come down so hard on hit, if the complaints varied or were exaggerated, or proportional to the size of Hit Web Design's business.
What is the situation:
1. THE SAME FULFILLMENT COMPLAINTS (they have had the SAME complaints since 2006 posted on various online boards)
2. Alleged Illegal or near illegal tactics
3. A proportionally high level of complaints for the size of business. (They have the MORE complaints than companies 1, 000 to 10, 000 times it size- no matter what they say 20, 000, 000.00 a year isn't that impressive).
4. Their refusal to honor refunds, forcing people to file charge backs.
5. The unethical, and dishonest treatment of employees and staff.
6. The Rampant stories of nepotism that have been shared with me.
7. Religious discrimination towards non-mormon employees.
8. Other forms of discrimination.
9. A customer retention rate of less than 30% annually
10. An employee turn over rate of over 100% annually
So when I see GREAT injustices happening, I take a stand! And I stand with all those people who have been hurt, and victimized by Hit Web Design & Heritage Web Solutions! I call for an apology from the owners of the company Dave Aiken, Brad Stone, Leah Young, Mark Strong!
I call for investigations and the termination of abusive managers like Jeremy Aiken, Tanner Wolsey, Lance Card, and Matt Nelson!
I hope that true investigative journalism will eventually shine light into the dark seedy underbelly that is Heritage Web Solutions!
Can ABC 4 News be so naive as to just simply believe what Mark Strong had to say and not take what employees and ex-employees have to say. This is mind boggling to me. I would think a Journalist would look at what they have in front of them and weigh both sides and clearly see what is happening. This just kills me to sit here and read the same thing over and over, like what EthicalHit posts above. And it keeps happening everyday, not just on this site but all over the internet.
Someone who knows said
However, posting things about people's family? Not cool and rather questionable ethics in itself.
Completely agree...sooooooooo not cool to post personal information about peoples families. Family members of HIT employees should be left outta this. There is a line that shouldn't be crossed and some of the "HIT haters" in this post should behave a little better.
and...Turpin, good for you for having a conscience too. Thanks
HIT did a layoff today -
I agree with everyone, that we must be ethical in our postings, and revealing persona family information is not ethical! We need to walk the higher road!
I really hope all of this is a wake-up call to upper Management that things need to change, I don't know what else needs to happen before they see it. Take the people you still have (minus a few managers still there) and get down to what matters most about the business, the people that work for you and especially the customers you sell your service to. Unfortunately that should go without saying. I keep hearing about getting back the way things used to be ran, the old HIT or Heritage whichever. It sounds like if they just do that everything will work itself out. I have said it before and I will say it again, I don't want to see this company fail, they have done great things in the community and I know they can continue to do so.
I am curious of the fallout of this whole thing, has anyone been contacted by an attorney representing HIT yet? I think the hand they will play if they do have to shut the doors, is blaming this thread, sad but true.
Good news, just heard from a moderator from here. Most of the posters here come from the same IP. Ethical, maybe there is something you want to add here to your other friends...
Also, you really think this thread. This single thread. On a site that ranks in the .033 percentile total and a thread that ranks in a range that is below .[protected] % of US usage is going to do something? LOL the hubris of the ignorant. AND since you're the same person posting personal info on families, why not remove it?
AND how much did your business earn last year, was it nothing to brag about (sub 20m or more?) we'd like to know.
I love the spam, it's about as relevant & accurate as the "leaked" info.
LOLreally?
Would you be willing to post a copy of the e-mail from the moderator to verify your story?
LOLreally?, if this thread this single thread isn't a threat or a concern then why bother reading it and researching which we all know you didn't do. I know for a fact that I'm not the same person as Ethical along side of others that have told the horrors of your business. So if it's not a concern of yours stop reading and posting and spend more time trying to fix your sinking ship!