What a completely weird day, from lovely to extremely irritating, every other second. The first irritation was the Kritzerland web host sending us an e-mail saying they were trying to charge my card to renew the domain - first we've heard of this renewal (I'd paid for at least three years the last time) - no warning e-mails, etc. Normally those come ALL the time when something is about to expire. I had the web guy call to find out and the person he spoke to said we had our "alerts" turned off. Well, WE didn't turn the alerts off. Second, the payment had to be made today, but the card I've used had a) been replaced a year and a half ago when it was compromised, and b) even if they'd had the new card it, too, would have been the one that was compromised last week so it wouldn't have gone through either. I was not about to give my bank debit card to him or anyone else. Luckily they do paypal direct, so we told them to do that - it wouldn't go through. I called paypal who told me it HAD gone through. I called back and was told that the web guy had gone to the host site and done the paypal thing himself - so that's all taken care of except it was a HUGE charge because they renewed us for FIVE years (all of the domains I have there) at a 25% savings. Of course, that was their assumption that that's what I wanted, but it's too late to do anything now. The next time renewal happens I will be SEVENTY.
