[midnightz]

I agree that sunstance abuse or Bing Cocaine use might be apparent. I get alot of people that have me fix his skins that are ridden with errors and I hated seeing people I knew that were ripped off. I personally have never met him, so I couldn't guess to many details, but I don't like the fact that people that put faith into people get ripped off. I am a professional designer and own a firm with many great designers and coders that are part of our group.

We went (and almost was successful) in taking vbskins from him and putting it to better use without the drama. I hope he does get his life together, but I think he has pretty much screwed the pooch on that one.

I finally decided after much debate a few months ago that I will be releasing a group of 4 skins to start with in the very near future. Its not even because we at the firm hurt for money, but the fact that there must be a better alternative for low cash users that can't afford a full custom skin from us at around $4000.00. But more importantly, karma and good business is the forefront of any successful venture.

Always deal with contracts that protect both the client and the designer and always insist on a contract if the amount is over $250.00 and require a 50% deposit to seal the deal... I hope if it is drug abiuse that somebody that gives a crap about him, would do a damn intervention.

I feel y'alls pain, it make us decent and karma concious designers get a bad rep. I know that there are mnay talented designers here, from designdevice to a few more.

midnightz

PS - Alien - I will be emailing you in a couple of days to get that thing together we talked about...

Peace all