I am soo sick and tired of getting calls from web.com at 6:30am PST. I have called them and asked them to remove my number from their database and still continue to get calls at 6:30am. I am also on the DO NOT CALL list as well. I am beyond pissed off at this point. I don't have a domain, nor do I need one or want one ever with this company.
Received a call from a local contractor saying that my name was given to him because I had posted it on Bob Villa's (sp???) contractor's website asking for someone to contact me about a tile job. This man had my address AND my email address. I did NOT do this. He apologized, said he'd call the company who had given him the referral and tell them to remove my name from the list. A few minutes later a woman called from the 904-680-6600, ID Name WEB COM and said I had submitted this request yesterday, August 25. The only sites I was on yesterday are ones that I've visited many, many times: nutritional site, pet care, walmart, google. This scares me!
I called the contractor, Mr. R. and told him about this website post. I also told him everything the woman at WEB COM had said to me: they build websites and DON'T give referral. Mr. R said he pays the company http://www.renovationexperts.com/ for referrals. The company had told him they only give one referral to 3 or 4 contractors. And yet, when M. R contacted a referral the homeowner said, "You're about the 30th person whose called to submit a bid."
Something else very strange: I went to Walmart a couple days ago and on the bottom of the receipt I could go to www.entry.survey.walmart.com, answer some questions (which I've done many times before) and my name is entered into a sweepstakes. I took the survey YESTERDAY - the same day that the woman at 904-680-6600 said I signed up to have a contractor call me. TODAY, went I went to http://www.renovationexperts.com/, immediately after I left the website a big flashing "ad" came up saying I had "won" something at WalMart!! There is something very fishy about all this.
Web.com is a web design team. I used them for my site. I was contacted by them the first time b/c I submitted information to a company about some business cards. It's not scary, people do sell your information. It happens. Your phone, cable, etc always do it. Uless told otherwise companies sell information.