As this is our first blog post; We should talk about what happened to our website with hundreds of testimonials and thousands of reviews...
Our website was located on servers in Canada and the company WX-Hosting, owned by Jeff Hunter, has been our host for 15+ years. Well, he has disappeared completely, his business is closed, his website is gone and so is ours.
I waited 7 days of frantic calling and texting and emailing with no result, so we decided to move forward with a new website from scratch. It will take some time, but we are hanging in with our great customers and their phone orders, we still ship same day of course.
We have all our sales records so if you need to place an order just call or text and say “please repeat my last order and use the card from that order”.
That’s it, easy peasy…
Al little History,
Established in 2008, JackBGoods was originally a survival gear site, we survived the Katrina hurricane in New Orleans and went for 5 days without food 3 days without water. This gave us a clear perspective on what you need to prepare for a disaster and / or an emergency.
To be continued...
165 Comment(s)
Wow, that's really tough to lose all those reviews and testimonials. I hope you can rebuild your site. It's scary when a host just disappears like that. Thanks for sharing your story.
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