All of a sudden they claimed they could not process my monthly payments that were supposed to process automatically. The card is a corporate card and there is an abundant limit and is used on an almost daily basis for all kinds of business purchases and payments with no issues whatsoever.

I logged into their admin portal and checked the card information and all is correct and accurate.

Finally this evening I get a call that our site is down.

I log in again to the admin portal and check the card information and it is all correct.

Then I go so far as to try to process the payments manually in the admin portal and each time receive the error "Merchant Account Configuration Error".

So I try a different card just in case and get the same "Merchant Account Configuration Error".

Then just to be thorough I try their option to pay by bank check and this time I get "ACH Merchant Account Configuration Error".

So at this point it is clear the problem is on their side with their Merchant processing service. I then went to their website and opened a support ticket via their online chat.

Well at this point the fun begins because I ended up talking to the worst smart-ass customer service representative I have ever experienced.

When I explained the situation and that the problem is and has been on their end all along and that our site was down because of it. I basically got a big "so what" from him.

He said he couldn't fix the merchant account error. So I asked if he would at least bring the site back up until we could get to the bottom of it in the morning. He said he could but, he wasn't authorized to do so.

I then asked for a supervisor and his response was "isn't going to happen"! "Isn't going to happen"? I am not allowed to request a supervisor.

I then asked if he could manually turn us back on and he said...wait for it..."no".

That's it just "no". The rest of the conversation was down hill from there. With him actually going so far as to mock me as if I was just some deadbeat that didn't pay his bills.

So my site is down due to their persistent error, I can't talk to a supervisor, I am mocked and demeaned in a smart-ass way, and when I ask for help in the meantime I am told simply "no"?!

Well without question we will never do business with these clowns again and I would warn any companies looking for web hosting to go somewhere else!