I am sorry this happened to you. I also believe if a member rips another member here he shall be banned.

Sorry but there are courts for that.

We don't have the ability the police has for checking up on facts, nor have we the right to judge someone.

i sent you an email from you contact form on your site, read it my friend

Mike

This does make sense; the pattern is very similar... insanctus was not only untrustworthy, but had a magical firewall that was very handy in blocking emails when required (IIRC).

This all point towards needing to have a system of being able to track old usernames to new user accounts aka eBay, as well as the mysticall referrals system.

Once again, bad karma Mike; I hope you have changed the locks on the site, and sent legal letters demanding al work completed so far, and that he destroy any and all copies of cde, etc etc legal threatenings; Also notify PayPal of this action.

I have done this Natch and damn I wish you were available, I KNOW that the job would get done

I have requested that cinq contact me asap

To all who have been reading this post! I talked over the weekend to insane-topic's wife about the entire situation. He actually tried to work on the site and get something accomplished but I asked him to stop ASAP. My reasons were:

I do not trust his coding, being implemented to fast without testing
I do not trust his work ethic and his dishonesty
I decided to take the loss on the money and persue another developer


If anyone is wanting to look at the document, I will post another request in the service request forum

Thanks for all the postive posts and sorry to anyone if I upset them, I still believe that anyone requesting work here, do not higher insane-topics

Regards
Mike Simonds
Sportsrant.com


I forgot to add this about his attempt to get the CMS implemented on my site and the reason that I fired him. He told me in an email and his wife told me also that he was 100% done with the CMS and that all that needed to be done is the gallery. Well if he was done, All that needed to be done is the new scripts would need to replace the old ones and template changes needed, etc... well there is no way that he was done 100%, becuase his updates came in patches and I received about 90 or so database error messages. There is no way that he was even near done, I fired him and I am moving on

this is now open again: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=107868

Well sorry to hear the end result for you msimonds :( I hope you get refunded without to much issue.

Personally I would have smelt a rat if someone was quoting too little for a job such as a complete custom cms and I find $800 very low and a promise of completion and full 100% live tested inside 5-6 weeks as highly unlikely, but then I do not know how big this cms project was/is.

When paying in advance what ever the % you really need to be knowing in advance some kind of reputation of the person your intending on having undertake the task. Its not an unheard of practice for some advance payments as the shoe can be on the other foot just as much. The % you pay up front should be relative to the job size, the larger the job the smaller the % as extra topups of advances can be made as progression is made.

Thanks nitro I appreciate it. It was my fault for paying that much upfront. I was just angry and I need to move on. We all learn from our mistakes and I shall. The CMS is already done, it just needs to be ported over so it can work with 3.5.*. I will not see any of the money back from him, his wife said that she already spent the money

She expressed that her family lives on welfare, that they do not have long distance and that she would be willing to setup a payment plan over a time period or 12-18 months

It would cost more to go after him on a legal level, hiring lawyers and such

I do believe that he should be banned for his activities. I understand that the staff here cannot be a judge but there is indisputable proof that he did, not only to me, but to another vbulletin paying member. As customers, we should be protected from person(s) such as insane-topics

Just an update, I actually forgot that when I made the payment to insane-idiot via paypal that I chose 260.00 of it to go onto my visa check card... so Paypal would not do anything, as expected, but the Rep there told me to contact visa and fight the charge

I did and the money was returned to me

What to do if insane-topics has the Ba||$ to return to release hacks, anyone going to help me out

Report him to the administrators, maybe they'll do something such as putting him in another usergroup where the 'Service Requests' forum is invisisble to him.

That would be great but they cannot be a judge or take sides and I totally understand that....

You know what is really funny? I actually sent insane-topics this direct link, kind of funny that he did not respond to it or defend himself :rolleyes:

WONDER WHY :paranoid: