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Hello everybody. It is very nice to meet you all.
Well, first I would like to tell a story, and then ask a question, and then (quite possibly) ask for your advice. I recently posted a service request here at vB.org in the appropriate forum to do so. Within two days I had received several PM's from interested parties. I contacted one of the responders and set up an IM session. I chose to contact this person first as he portrayed himself as very eager to help me. During our IM session this person basically accepted the job and we discussed (in detail) the terms of the service request and what I expected. Everything appeared to be going very smoothly. My service request was quite simple, to simply upgrade my front page from html to valid xhtml + css. For this I was offering $25.00 USD, which seems to be a very fair price for such a task. Approximately thirty minutes into our conversation this person said " i'll BRB ". Okay, fair enough. The only problem is that " i'll BRB " turned into more than two days without a response. I very politely sent this person ONE email explaining that I needed to know if he was still interested, and explaining that I was ready to move forward with the project. No response. I very politely sent this person ONE i.m. message explaining that I needed to know if he was still interested, and explaining that I was ready to move forward with the project. No response. A time period of more than two days elapsed and during that time I saw that this person was regularly on msn messenger and logged into vB.com and vB.org, so I am certain that he was aware of my want and need to speak with him. After realizing the game that he was playing with me, I sent him this PM here at vB.org: Quote:
What I would really like to do is share the username of this person who treated me poorly and dealt with me dishonestly. This is not out of spite, but out a desire to prevent other people from having to deal with this "dirty player". I am also aware that this person has, in the past, spammed people's IM accounts with ads to buy his custom skins. Can I share the username of this person? If not, does anyone have any suggestions about how I can expose this person's treachery? (as a public service of course) |
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Sorry but you will not be allowed to share this persons name, and i think you can think of enough reasons why (the fact that you are asking first shows me that you like to deal in a civilized way with things). I know that there have been namings in the past, but we try to avoid it.
In your case i must say that you should consider yourself lucky, if i understand right, no money was exchanged. There have been examples in the past where people lost more then time. Unfortunatly this is the risk of doing online business and not much what we can do about. As vbulletin.org we are no party in your agreement/conflict, but you are free to PM one of our staff members the name of the person with the complaint. This will NOT be folowed up, but if we get more complaints about the same person, and there is damage to our members, then we MIGHT consider taking some sort of action. Hope you will understand our stand in this. |
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I think this thread alone will suffice, if someone requires work and they suspect the person who offers to fulfill it is 'this person' they can now PM you for info.
As much as I appreciate your situation though, I have to point out that even though morally you have been wronged - this person hasn't commited a crime, and has not defrauded you in any way. There may be a feasible explanation. |
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On the other hand, from the experience of others with this person in the past who I know personally, I feel relatively certain that there is no good reason for his behavior, and that I am simply being toyed with. You are right though. No crime was committed. Just disrespect. (the person's name might rhyme with bb-schmore) Take care all. FT |
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