Fresh from the yes!wtf department comes this news about GoDaddy sending to collections a domainer who didn’t keep an active credit card on record.
Although the “Godaddy Screwed Me” title might have been overkill, so was the GoDaddy act, that involved an amount of $8.50 for the domain and $25 for the collection agency:
“After being a loyal customer for years godaddy sends one of my auto renewals to a collection agency. $8.50 for the domain and $25 for the collection agency. $33.50 because i forgot to turn the auto renewal off. So if you have names you’re unsure of renewing, turn auto renewal off. “
It seems that the autorenewal process attempted to charge an outdated credit card on file and that triggered a series of events, leading to an act of involving collections that another domain registrar, 1&1 is notorious about.
Commentary left by other domainers was scathing:
“i think this is unprecedented as godaddy just locks you out of your account if they can’t charge your credit card any amount they think you owe them – their way of doing business sure stinks”
Others attempted to understand what was going on:
“I’ve forgotten to update a card in the past but they notified me of the failed payment & didn’t send me to a collection agency? This must have been months back wen they tried to charge you.”
But seriously, why would GoDaddy engage a collections agency for $8.50, is beyond us.