To those who still follow the Crissic name, and/or point fingers I wanted to clear up a few things for everyone.
1) Yes HUGE, irreversible mistakes had been made that I cannot dispute, or truly resolve.
2) NO, CRISSIC is NOT affiliated with anybody! We are not affiliated, or supporting other offshoot companies created by Michael, or anyone else. Anything that may have claimed, or appears to be Crissic is NOT unless expressively stated by myself.
3) Are we reopening? No plans as of now! There is a possibility, however if Crissic or any other company was re-opened by myself it will only be done at the right time, with the right funding, and the CORRECT business plan. Learn from your mistakes, expand from them, and don’t let them happen again.
As of NOW, Crissic is not open, nor is the owner (Skylar MacMinn) running any other business or partaking in any other online business affiliated with the webhosting industry, Michael, or anyone else who may have had ties during the duration of Crissic’s business life. Unless posted on this blog, this has not changed.
In the event that Crissic re-opens, anybody with a legitimate claim with Crissic during it’s fallout that has a receipt may be compensated. This would be determined on a case by case basis. Please note we do NOT have any databases or designs from the original Crissic, so any re-opening would not have any data from prior clients. All data was permanently deleted for the safety of clients.
Here’s to the future, and learn from your mistakes!
Edit: This is taken directly from my reply to a prior customer.
“…When I opened Crissic, I literally started it as a bit of a trial run. I started it with a reseller and $25. It grew, so I expanded it, and it kept expanding at enormous rates. The issue with this was the fact that there originally was no solid, concrete business model, business plan, or any plans for the future. My shortcomings with Crissic really stem around the mismanagement of the business structure, which later resulted in the mismanagement of the clients, and their respective data.
I do wish to personally apologize to you Nate, and to anyone else who may be reading any of this. I made large, irreversible mistakes. The only way I can really make it up, in the event that I ever decide to re-open, would be to work three… nae 400% better than I had before. Mistakes happen, but mistakes of this magnitude should not have occurred. That I cannot dispute on any level.”
“Here’s to the future, and learn from your mistakes!”
Are you kidding me? Crissic shut down without warning and the questions surrounding the shut down were never answered. A notification was never even sent to anyone hosted with the site to let them know or apologize.
Your mistakes cost your clients money. We paid for a service and then the service vanished with no compensation or refund. Crissic continues to be a joke and still is demonstrating that it has no capability of doing business in a professional manor.
I surely have a legitimate claim with Crissic but I am not holding by breathe. I wrote that off a long time ago as it became clear that Crissic had no intention of fixing the wrongs that it had done.
Let me attempt to tackle one thing at a time, but let me be clear that your frustrations are completely valid. The closure, or “shut down” as it may be was very abrupt. I won’t lie about that, or the mistakes revolving around that. An email was virtually impossible as the database at that point had been destroyed (will not go into details as frankly I do not remember specifics, and you may probably write all of this off as a lie anyways) so it impossible to send an email out. As past experiences with major websites such as WHT, making a public post on that forum to the capacity of this was a very very poor solution. Would it have been the correct method? Yes of course. However, there are a lot of people on the forum that irregardless of the closure, had been out to get me and my company since day one, so regardless of the reason the posting would have been buried up and nullified.
There are many things I had done wrong, and had failed to correctly address or manage on any level. I cannot dispute the fact that poor choices had let to other poor choices.
I feel that calling Crissic a joke can be acceptable to a level, and in the event of a re-opening (not saying there will be) that is a reputation I will have to work three times as hard to correct. Inability to function as a business in a professional manner I feel is an incorrect statement, but hey we are all entitled to our opinions. Mistakes had been made, but irregardless of age, maturity, or past experiences mistakes happen. Sometimes bigger, which may be a result of the method in which Crissic was opened.
Let me explain a tad more exactly what went wrong with Crissic:
When I opened Crissic, I literally started it as a bit of a trial run. I started it with a reseller and $25. It grew, so I expanded it, and it kept expanding at enormous rates. The issue with this was the fact that there originally was no solid, concrete business model, business plan, or any plans for the future. My shortcomings with Crissic really stem around the mismanagement of the business structure, which later resulted in the mismanagement of the clients, and their respective data.
I do wish to personally apologize to you Nate, and to anyone else who may be reading any of this. I made large, irreversible mistakes. The only way I can really make it up, in the event that I ever decide to re-open, would be to work three… nae 400% better than I had before. Mistakes happen, but mistakes of this magnitude should not have occurred. That I cannot dispute on any level.