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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!

Update by stopthegreed
Oct 20, 2009 1:04 pm EDT

i am also an ex-employee this as all true! i believe that the ABC 4 news story will air later this week.

Update by stopthegreed
Oct 21, 2009 4:35 pm EDT

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!

Update by stopthegreed
Oct 21, 2009 5:51 pm EDT

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!

Update by stopthegreed
Oct 21, 2009 6:08 pm EDT

WOW! Things are worse than I thought...

Update by stopthegreed
Oct 23, 2009 12:07 am EDT

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.

Update by stopthegreed
Oct 23, 2009 12:41 pm EDT

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...

Update by stopthegreed
Oct 23, 2009 1:09 pm EDT

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...

Update by stopthegreed
Oct 25, 2009 12:38 am EDT

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.

Update by stopthegreed
Oct 25, 2009 12:46 am EDT

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.

Update by stopthegreed
Oct 25, 2009 6:01 pm EDT

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.

Update by stopthegreed
Oct 26, 2009 10:28 am EDT

This is all very sad and I don't think that anything is going to change until we take this a step further...

Update by stopthegreed
Oct 26, 2009 7:50 pm EDT

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.

Update by stopthegreed
Oct 27, 2009 1:10 pm EDT

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.

Update by stopthegreed
Oct 28, 2009 2:04 pm EDT

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.

Update by stopthegreed
Oct 28, 2009 7:56 pm EDT

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.

Update by stopthegreed
Oct 28, 2009 11:15 pm EDT

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...

Update by stopthegreed
Oct 28, 2009 11:20 pm EDT

Actually they are failing miserably.

Plus, why would anyone take a stand for a company they have no relation to?

Thanks for trying though.

Update by stopthegreed
Oct 29, 2009 12:35 am EDT

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.

Update by stopthegreed
Oct 29, 2009 12:50 am EDT

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.

Update by stopthegreed
Oct 29, 2009 12:30 pm EDT

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!

Update by stopthegreed
Oct 29, 2009 5:04 pm EDT

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.

Update by stopthegreed
Oct 29, 2009 11:26 pm EDT

awesome-company,

we all know you are not this altruistic.

Update by stopthegreed
Oct 30, 2009 11:38 am EDT

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.

Update by stopthegreed
Oct 30, 2009 12:00 pm EDT

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.

Update by stopthegreed
Nov 01, 2009 5:34 pm EST

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?

Update by stopthegreed
Nov 01, 2009 5:57 pm EST

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.

Update by stopthegreed
Nov 03, 2009 10:03 pm EST

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?

Update by stopthegreed
Nov 04, 2009 1:59 pm EST

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.

Update by stopthegreed
Nov 04, 2009 3:08 pm EST

Ethicalhit,

If that is the correct link, it looks like he took it down.

What's there to be ashamed of Ryan?

Update by stopthegreed
Nov 05, 2009 11:18 pm EST

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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EthicsCommitee
Boulder, US
Nov 03, 2009 3:56 pm EST

I would like to hear what the people that were laid off yesterday. What is your take on all of this?, and did you see it coming or were you caught off gaurd that it happened?

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stupidco
American Fork, US
Nov 03, 2009 12:02 pm EST

btw, want to know who the multiple users on the same ip are? not just the current employees. it's dave continually posting as different people, from HitManagement to GrowUpPlease to LOLplease.

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exheritageemployee
West Haven, US
Nov 03, 2009 11:29 am EST

I too am a former employee of Heritage Web Solutions, at least that is what the company was called when I worked there. While I have many examples that I can give of how things were run that were questionable to me I would rather just give some advice to management, as we all know that you are avidly reading these posts.

My advice is this: get more directly involved with YOUR company like you were when I first started working there in 2004. When I first started working for you guys I LOVED my job. It was challenging, a learning experience and I left at the end of the day feeling as though I accomplished something and somehow helped our customers achieve their dreams. I took on each store that I helped put together as a personal project and yet I still had time to get several done a day. I found that if I did things right, even if the customer hadn't sent them in 100% correct, that they were 100% happier than if I just slapped together what they sent me and said sorry what you send is what you get.

As time went on there was less attention given to making things right, it turned to being all about hitting those numbers. At the time that I left the only numbers that were important where the sales numbers.

Here is a thought for you management, money earned is not the only thing that makes you successful...

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stupidco
American Fork, US
Nov 03, 2009 11:21 am EST

lolreally;
think these threads make no difference? search hit web design right now and no less than 3 of them pull on the 1st page, two from complaints board and one from [redacted]. do you think theres any chance that doesnt damage hit when possible sales look into the company before signing up?

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ethicalhit
Provo, US
Nov 03, 2009 9:39 am EST

LOLReally?,

I continue to find dark humor in your post. This morning as I was in my town car going to work drinking my coffee and reading a paper, I started thinking about your comment, and how funny it would be if it wasn't so pathetic.

I do agree with all4money, that if this board is really so insignificant, and you are doing so well, then why get on here at all and read, but it seems to me that instead of fixing your company you are looking for scapegoat, someone to blame all your ills on.

Also Hit Web Design, I have placed my e-mail address on here before stating that you could contact me personally. Convince me otherwise! I dare you! Hit Web Design and Employees of Hit Web Design, and former employees of Hit Web Design you can always e-mail me directly here on complaints boards or to my direct e-mail at ethicalhit@yahoo.com

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How are they still in biz?
, US
Nov 03, 2009 1:45 am EST

Oh and one more thing - I'm surprised LOLreally could even spell moderator. I bet he had help!

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How are they still in biz?
, US
Nov 03, 2009 1:44 am EST

Considering I'm the one posting info about families and I only know Bryce since he's identified himself, LOLReally sounds like he's running scared. Maybe that's why you had to let more people go today Dave? Let me ask you this Dave - er, I mean LOLreally. Now that you've done the layoff - something you've claimed to want to avoid by doing the paycuts, are you now going to reinstate the pay so the few employees you have left can actually support their families? Or are you going to continue stuffing your pockets as much as possible before we all drive by there one day to see the parking lot empty, minus a few dodge trucks with a boot on?

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EthicsCommitee
Boulder, US
Nov 03, 2009 12:59 am EST

LOLreally?

If that was the case, would that not be the moderators job on this site to stop such an act...Let's see the email or produce some kind of proof that shows all of us that you really did have a conversation with the moderator.

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all4money
Provo, US
Nov 03, 2009 12:52 am EST

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!

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ethicalhit
Provo, US
Nov 03, 2009 12:50 am EST

LOLreally?

Would you be willing to post a copy of the e-mail from the moderator to verify your story?

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LOLreally?
, US
Nov 03, 2009 12:30 am EST

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.

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EthicsCommitee
Boulder, US
Nov 03, 2009 12:12 am EST

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.

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ethicalhit
Provo, US
Nov 02, 2009 10:31 pm EST

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!

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How are they still in biz?
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Nov 02, 2009 10:25 pm EST

HIT did a layoff today -

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happyhit:)
, US
Nov 02, 2009 10:20 pm EST

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

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EthicsCommitee
Boulder, US
Nov 02, 2009 9:41 pm EST

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.

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ethicalhit
Provo, US
Nov 02, 2009 7:40 pm EST

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!

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ethicalhit
Provo, US
Nov 02, 2009 6:21 pm EST

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!

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ethicalhit
Provo, US
Nov 02, 2009 4:55 pm EST

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!

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marfirestudios
Provo, US
Nov 02, 2009 3:45 pm EST

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.

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stupidco
American Fork, US
Nov 02, 2009 11:50 am EST

very true someone who knows.
they came up on a list to sell a year of hosting to!

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stupidco
American Fork, US
Nov 02, 2009 11:17 am EST

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!

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ethicalhit
Provo, US
Nov 02, 2009 10:12 am EST

Looks like we got all that spam removed! We are winning this fight against Hit Web Design!

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Nov 02, 2009 5:24 am EST

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Your Not Alone
, US
Nov 02, 2009 2:59 am EST

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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Vargas
, US
Nov 01, 2009 7:19 pm EST

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.

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Vargas
, US
Nov 01, 2009 7:18 pm EST

Anyone seen this ABC news report yet?
Just wondering, I'd like to see it.

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How are they still in biz?
, US
Nov 01, 2009 5:41 pm EST

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.

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justinkp
, US
Nov 01, 2009 3:30 pm EST

@ethical and others,

I think you can write to moderator at http://www.complaintsboard.com/sendmail/cn0.html to remove the spam.

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ethicalhit
Provo, US
Nov 01, 2009 1:15 pm EST

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?

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mydreams
Provo, US
Nov 01, 2009 11:48 am EST

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!

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mydreams
Provo, US
Nov 01, 2009 11:46 am EST

They helped out with my SEO problems.
Lickity split.

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mydreams
Provo, US
Nov 01, 2009 11:45 am EST

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

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ethicalhit
Provo, US
Nov 01, 2009 11:29 am EST

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!

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justinkp
, US
Nov 01, 2009 1:01 am EDT

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.

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justinkp
, US
Nov 01, 2009 1:41 am EDT

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.

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justinkp
, US
Nov 01, 2009 1:32 am EDT

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.

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How are they still in biz?
, US
Nov 01, 2009 1:29 am EDT

Hey "awesome-company" is back everyone!

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awesome-company
Haena, US
Nov 01, 2009 1:04 am EDT

hmmmm, wonder where you idiots get these figure from. HIT is kicking ###! There are no templates, everything is customized

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ethicalhit
Provo, US
Oct 31, 2009 9:45 pm EDT

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.

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