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On Aug 10 2010 I bought a 1-year SSL cert from GoDaddy (I know, I know) for $12.99. I installed it and successfully used it on an ecommerce site.

On June 25th I get an email warning me that my cert "is coming up for renewal in 15 days". June 25 + 15 days == July 10th. Sure enough, this morning GoDaddy auto-renewed my SSL cert. Which I never enabled auto-renew on. And, they raised its price to $49.99.

Pretty impressive, GoDaddy has four levels of scams going on here:

1. The expiration date on the cert itself is Aug 12 2011. But they try to renew you about a month ahead of the expiration date, effectively shorting you a months worth of your cert's lifetime.

2. GoDaddy enables auto-renewal by default. It's easy enough to opt out of auto-renewal for their domains, but I couldn't find a way to disable it for SSL certs. I foolishly concluded that meant it wouldn't auto-renew.

   (Instructions are here to disable it, but substitute "My Payment Information" for "Payments & Renewing Items".)

3. They jacked my $13/year cert up to $50/year for the same product.

4. GoDaddy performs tracking so their site will report to you that their $13.99 certs cost $49.99. I was able to verify this by switching browsers to one that didn't have their cookie and looking at the same page.

I called GoDaddy Support this Sunday afternoon. While it was a long distance call, I only had to wait about a minute to reach a person in their Billing Department. They were happy to refund me the $49.99 after I deleted the cert and sent me the instructions to disable auto-renewals I linked to above.

I really need to get off GoDaddy.

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On Aug 10 2010 I bought a 1-year SSL cert from GoDaddy (I know, I know) for $12.99. I installed it and successfully used it on an ecommerce site.

On June 25th I get an email warning me that my cert "is coming up for renewal in 15 days". June 25 + 15 days == July 10th. Sure enough, this morning GoDaddy auto-renewed my SSL cert. Which I never enabled auto-renew on. And, they raised its price to $49.99.

Pretty impressive, GoDaddy has four levels of scams going on here:

1. The expiration date on the cert itself is Aug 12 2011. But they try to renew you about a month ahead of the expiration date, effectively shorting you a months worth of your cert's lifetime.

• GoDaddy enables auto-renewal by default. It's easy enough to opt out of auto-renewal for their domains, but I couldn't find a way to disable it for SSL certs. I foolishly concluded that meant it wouldn't auto-renew.

  (Instructions are here to disable it, but substitute "My Payment Information" for "Payments & Renewing Items".)

• They jacked my $13/year cert up to $50/year for the same product.

• GoDaddy performs tracking so their site will report to you that their $13.99 certs cost $49.99. I was able to verify this by switching browsers to one that didn't have their cookie and looking at the same page.

I called GoDaddy Support this Sunday afternoon. While it was a long distance call, I only had to wait about a minute to reach a person in their Billing Department. They were happy to refund me the $49.99 after I deleted the cert and sent me the instructions to disable auto-renewals I linked to above.

I really need to get off GoDaddy.

You'll need to look at the raw version of both posts to see the difference in outlining syntax. The former (a single numbered list item followed by bullet-style) is rendered as an ordered list with MarsEdit 3.3.1 and GitHub, but not by Tumblr (which apparently uses MultiMarkdown).