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Originally Posted by Quarterbore

Thanks Gio... I take your permission to allow those of us that want to get together to make improvements permission to do so even if we need to work together to hire a programmer to help us with this...

I respect this a great deal!

I will be working with a few people to make some changes as a break-a-way product off your base script. I will ensure that your product rights are protected as best I can but to do this you may need to allow me to be incontact with you.

Lastly, you really should consider letting another coder help you with your scripts and perhaps form a partnership... I would love to see these scripts become what they could be and that was what this exercise was all about. Yu had a number of coders on your site that were willing to help and I am still wrking towards that goal but I have just waited all I care to anymore to see major functional changes I was looking for and others would like too.

That is what this was all about... Take some time, consider a partner, and take on one project at a time. Just running away from people for months at a time will cause the reaction you are seeing here!

Feel free to contact me, you know my email ;)

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Originally Posted by mhc1576

Quarterbore,
I want to be part of the funding of getting a programmer to fix the Classified script. Contact me if you decide to start the "project".
From what I've seen in the script it looks like it should not be to hard to fix the permission and auction issues. I don't use them yet so I have not investigated the problems.

Gio,
Your script is serving my site well and has been well worth the money.
Even with the minor bugs people have made complaints about I think the price is very fair.
Take your time and try to fix your backlog and I think we all will welcome you back if you decide to continue your work on the scripts.
You are a talented programmer and will have a future in that business if you should choose to continue.

Regards
Hakan

Thank you very much for your kind comments.

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Originally Posted by toolblast

@Gio

Hi Gio! Welcome back!

You did the comment hack, but you still have the events mod to do (this 'alternate work' you speak of). You agreed on doing both. A while back you e-mailed me saying you were going to finish the events mod on Sunday night a week or so ago. Were you able to finish it? All I need is that completed and we're good to go :)

Please check your e-mail and we'll communicate via e-mail. Thanks.

@Demented
I am not the type of person to file chargebacks or disputes. As Gio said, he hasn't done anything wrong up until this little issue of him being away, so as long as he keeps up his side of the bargain and completes the 'alternative' work he's talking about... which is the event mod, then we both go away happy, no hard feelings at all. I would just like it completed! :) ...and as I said before numerous times. I already finalized with Gio about the fact on the refund issue with him. I am not asking for a refund from him, that is out of the question, so stop bringing it up please. He has been paid, and he just needs to do some finishing up on my project, thats all I want.

Thanks to everyone for your help and advice.

I will be contacting you via email.

Thanks Gio, just waiting for your e-mail now. I'll be on all day for the next 6 hours, so please e-mail before the night is over :D

QB - I signed up at your forum. I'm not sure how much more money I want to sink in to this thing but I'm a possibility for pitching in a few bucks to get it fixed.

It is now 10PM at night. Still no e-mail from you Gio.... I sent 2 emails to you to reply to. :(

*UPDATE* Almost midnight now. Still no e-mail, pm, or contact.

Hes on right now so he should see that you replied to this thread.

Ya, well he always seems to be online.. yet never replies. We'll see if he replies here or e-mails me before the night is up. (1 more hour)

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Originally Posted by gio~logist

1) Can i take a script and have someone improve it?
Sure, you just cannot resell any of the scripts.

Id like that you would give permission to allow someone else to continue working on your scripts, like EvilLs1 did for this hack.

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=666

I need some help!

As I know Gio is having some sort of issues but, we bought his mod last month and had to reinstall it along with a lot of other mods we had due to some server problems! Where I have the file I DO NOT have the licence and it will not let me install this!

I have already emailed him and PMed him with no answer!

Can someone please advise me how to get this to work? I can show my order number and email if necessary! Thanks in advance!

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Originally Posted by toolblast

It is now 10PM at night. Still no e-mail from you Gio.... I sent 2 emails to you to reply to. :(

*UPDATE* Almost midnight now. Still no e-mail, pm, or contact.

For the money you had given me, due to complications (which it is agreed is not my problem) i agreed to do alternate work. I did complete a custom comments system and gave you exclusive rights to do what you wish with it. Anything else cannot be done, sorry. Also, feel free to email me, as this is not the place to talk to me about this.

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Originally Posted by tappedout

In your PM, include the paypal receipt number and script purchased. I posted this, instead of PMing in order for other people to resort to.

Gio. $300 for a profile comment hack? Thats ridiculous. It doesn't work properly either, I installed it today and when you click 'write comment' nothing happens.

I have emailed you twice.. please e-mail me, maybe the e-mails arent getting through to you. My email is: chadfullerton -at- gmail.com

You agreed to do the event mod, you e-mailed me saying you were going to work on it and finish it, I can forward you those e-mails if you wish to read them over.

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---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Giovanni Martinez <gio@dopegfx.com>
Date: Sep 2, 2006 1:45 PM
Subject: Re: Gio.... I need an update, asap. Where are you?
To: Chad <sirchadlington@gmail.com>

Just had to deal with Hurricane ernesto, sorry. I will be pulling an all nighter tomorrow (sunday) and i believe i will have it finished then :)

Giovanni Martinez

You weren't talking about the comment hack there.

I'll wait for your e-mail. Please fix the comment mod at least!

WoW the must be one nice profile comments hack for that price. I would have went to the whole vS-Interactive Profiles via Psionic Vision much easier then paying 300 when you could have paid $34.99 for the whole thing...

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Originally Posted by DementedMindz

Well there was a list of things that I wanted done originally. We ended up just picking a few that he could do for the $300. He decided he wanted to do a profile comments hack, and an events hack. The events hack lets people register an event (similar to facebook), and people can 'RSVP' and it shows who's coming. I have it all documented, even with mockups. Gio was given this at the end of July. He finished the comments hack and sent it to me, then this issue of him being away began. I have numerous e-mails from him stating he will have a beta of the event mod done, that he's working on it, that it will be finished. And it is now September 17th and Gio's saying he can't finish it? All I get is a profile comments hack that isn't working properly, for $300? Thats not cool dude.

Update: It is 1:40AM, I'm going to sleep. No e-mail or response yet. Gio, please e-mail me, I'll check in the morning.

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Originally Posted by gio~logist

In your PM, include the paypal receipt number and script purchased. I posted this, instead of PMing in order for other people to resort to.

Thank you very much I will resend the PM right now! :D

This is turning into a pointless chat/drama thread that has nothing to do with vb.org. Please talk to each other by PM/email or a chat system, not by a thread here. Thank you.

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