Please do not be alarmed, Basicstero is very much still in business.
This forum does not even verify any of their sponsor, hence a source must either royally fuck up and scam / send bunk gears to receive 100s of complainants from regular members or even worse scam or give infection to a Mod/Admin to be booted off.
In Basicstero's case forum fees were late, Frank pays months in advance and being busy with other stuff sometimes looses track of when what fees are due in.
I take full responsibility as I wasn't there to remind him, I am a bad rep.