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Originally Posted by peterska2

You've possibly been ripped off. There's not a thing you can do about it. Go and punch a pillow while screaming, then come back chilled out and learn from it.

Duh and what higher you!!!


Now I am learing that he also screwed another member here

Originally Posted by cleck673

Mike,
He got me too!

1-25-06 - I made an agreement via email, from an ad I placed in the Vbulletin.org forums, for this person to do some custom web programming for me. He quoted me $150. I paid 1/2 down with this transaction in good faith. The timeframe agreed upon in the deal was 1 week. 2 days go by and I got a PM on the forums that said he was progressing well. 3 days later no updates from him so I start PMing and Emailing him for status. A couple days later ( 2-4-06), I get an email stating that his PC was messed up and he should have something in a couple days. I have not heard back since then. On 2-6-06, I sent an email stating that this has been long enough, and if I didn't here back soon, I would be reporting him and finding a new programmer. No response. 2-9-06, I sent an email stating that he had 24 hours to refund my $75 paypal payment or I would continue with the report to vbulletin.org and paypal. Today is 2-11-06 and I am moving foward. I request a reversal of charges.

I posted the above reply and like many, I didn't read the thread prior to posting. Now I have read the thread, I can not believe the grief given to Mike about this. Of course, I sympathize with him since the same guy got me too.

I have filed with Paypal and have a letter drafted ready to send to his local authorities when I find the info.

Now this has to suck, I had been thinking that he had done this in the past to others, but not to someone who I actually knew. If you want to team up on this, let me know man

Originally Posted by cleck673

Mike,
He got me too!

1-25-06 - I made an agreement via email, from an ad I placed in the Vbulletin.org forums, for this person to do some custom web programming for me. He quoted me $150. I paid 1/2 down with this transaction in good faith. The timeframe agreed upon in the deal was 1 week. 2 days go by and I got a PM on the forums that said he was progressing well. 3 days later no updates from him so I start PMing and Emailing him for status. A couple days later ( 2-4-06), I get an email stating that his PC was messed up and he should have something in a couple days. I have not heard back since then. On 2-6-06, I sent an email stating that this has been long enough, and if I didn't here back soon, I would be reporting him and finding a new programmer. No response. 2-9-06, I sent an email stating that he had 24 hours to refund my $75 paypal payment or I would continue with the report to vbulletin.org and paypal. Today is 2-11-06 and I am moving foward. I request a reversal of charges.

I posted the above reply and like many, I didn't read the thread prior to posting. Now I have read the thread, I can not believe the grief given to Mike about this. Of course, I sympathize with him since the same guy got me too.

I have filed with Paypal and have a letter drafted ready to send to his local authorities when I find the info.

This is funny Chris, I FINALLY got an email from him after I did not stop bugging his wife/girlfriend on the phone (talked to her 3 times and he is always gone)

Originally Posted by insane-topics

had a pc issue that messed up my connection and half of my files, so far the CMS is all done. And ported over the work I had done on the gallery got lost in the mix, so I have to redo it.

Originally Posted by insane-topics

In no way was I trying to vanish or avoid, I had attempted a few emails but is seems as though the firewall had been blocking them as well.

I like the highlighted statement, his own firewall was ALL OF a sudden, blocking his outgoing emails and you would think that he would come up with another excuse for other clients, or should i say victims