It gives me a great deal of pleasure to announce that having checked The Linkup website today, to see they are closing down.
This company in all it’s guises and the people involved in it have caused a great deal of misery and upset to numerous customers.
They have lost files, in some cases very personal files that people paid to have them look after and generally treated their customers like dirt.
Due to the amount of blogging about the company and the negative comments that they fully deserved, they have anounced they will be closing on Friday 8th August.
As Quagmire from Family Guy would say “Jackpot.”
Goodbye and good riddance.
I will be having a drink on the 8th August and yes Mr Steve Iverson, I will have a very big smile on my face!
July 10, 2008 at 6:12 pm |
ok great. but how the hell do i get to my files??? they haven’t responded to numerous requests and i can’t find a real contact. HELP!
July 13, 2008 at 9:27 pm |
yeah, but what about all of us who got charged for all this time but never got our files? i was charged but i’ve been waiting all of this time to see my files so that i could download them and have them, but all they kept telling me is that they were working on transferring everything, yet i never once got one file. all of my folders are still empty. i would hate to see them just get away with this and walk out on us that easily. honestly, i am not the only one who lost hundreds of files. true, it is good news that they are leaving, but not without paying for scamming hundreds of people out of their valuable files.
July 15, 2008 at 5:57 am |
What happened to this site: http://nirvanix.nfshost.com/
July 15, 2008 at 10:03 am |
Mediamax never actually stored the files. Mediamax took over the customer services part of Streamload. The servers and data storage were spun off at that time as a new company called Nirvanix was set up. According to a report, it was Nirvanix that accidently deleted millions of files in 2007, which damaged Mediamax’s image fatally. Mediamax rebranded as The Linkup, but never recovered and is now filing for bankruptcy. The files are still on the Nirvanix servers (those that were not deleted, though some of those may still be recoverable). Mediamax said: “I think the only time we intentionally lied was when we denied being a customer of Nirvanix. That was a Nirvanix demand…. Your files are at Nirvanix. It’s now up to them to decide if they want to give you access to MediaMax.”
The initial response from Nirvanix is to refuse to do more than keep the files until 8 August for users to download through The Linkup interface. Yet 45% of file links never made it into The Linkup database from the Mediamax one. Nirvanix has the data, but will destroy it (to make more space on its servers to sell to other unknown interface companies) unless people campaign for THEIR DATA to be returned to them. See:
http://nirvanixusers.blogspot.com/
July 28, 2008 at 7:08 pm |
anyone heard anything about refunds? or any law suit to try and get a refund?
September 3, 2008 at 2:24 pm |
Finally, the end is here. The truth about Streamload/MediaMax is known. I loved Streamload…before they totally screwed it up moving to the MediaMax web app. I just wish I could get some money back. Oh well, life goes on and vengeance is not worth it.