What do you do when you pay for a premium add-on and the developer goes AWOL?

[Mark.B]

Originally Posted by toolblast

I paid him $300 and asked for a refund a few days later (since I found someone to do the project for free), and he refused to refund me and wanted to code the project even though I told him I found someone else.

Got to say, on this matter alone he has done nothing wrong. You paid him and then changed your mind, that's your problem, not his.

Sorry to sound harsh but that's the way it is.

Most coders will operate a no-refunds policy in these circumstances. In a few days he may have already begun the work.

[MPDev]

You should call his parents; they may not be aware of his "business ethics" and being potentially liable they should be made aware of the situation.

Refunds because you changed your mind are not an entitlement; like Mark said.

[toolblast]

Originally Posted by Mark.B

Got to say, on this matter alone he has done nothing wrong. You paid him and then changed your mind, that's your problem, not his.

Sorry to sound harsh but that's the way it is.

Most coders will operate a no-refunds policy in these circumstances. In a few days he may have already begun the work.

I'm not excusing the fact that I asked for a refund after the project just started. I am only bringing up that point because bchertov meantioned getting a refund after the project was agreed upon. Thats all. The point is that I stuck with Gio despite all the alternatives I could have taken, I gave him full details on what he had to do, even made up prototype diagrams of how it should look and operate.

I'm not angry about not getting a refund, I am angry about him not finishing my project. Plain and simple.

[DementedMindz]

How did you pay him? Paypal? If so get his contact info and call his parents or report his ass. Yeah hes under age but also his parents are responsible for his actions since hes under age. And if he cant accept money via online payments then it surely is in his parents name so get in contact with what ever company you sent the money through.

[Davidhi]

been reading through this whole thread as i'm currently looking for a designer so was curious about the goings on about paying for custom work.

Feel sorry for anyone who has paid this guy as its not right what ever way you look at it, he could be 5 years old, or 40 years old the fact is he's ripping people off.
As some people have mentioned that he may be just too busy or had pc taken off him theres nothing stoping him from coming on here and making a post saying im sorry to anyone who has paid for custom work to be done iam currently very busy with work at the moment.
he should also have by now closed his site down with a similar notice and sent a mass e-mail to his members.

it's opened my eye's about what goes on and will be very careful before choosing a designer for my site.:cross-eyed:

[Quarterbore]

Hey, Gio logged onto his site today... first time in about 2-weeks and I see he came over here soon after (Not sure if he dropped in this thread however...)

So, he is still alive...

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/member.php?u=57621

[DementedMindz]

lol look on his site call his house the number is right on his site. http://www.DopeGFX.com

[Davidhi]

also on his own yesterday
http://www.siteresort.com/member.php?u=1

[G?rome]

I purched his script "Extra Threadfields Premium" a few weeks ago. From his support-forum it looked like that I was one of the first customers for this script.

It turned out that he did not spend a single moment to test his own release-package. A couple of obvious mistakes were in the package, but he was online that time and fixed them wile I was reporting them. This all gave me the impression, that he was more or less inexperienced. But I got the script I had payed for...

Anyway - I must admit, that I did not had the time to play around with this script any further.

kind regards,
Gérome

[toolblast]

@DementedMindz
I paid with Paypal... however, I paid him. He didn't pay me. So I dont have his address or other info, only his paypal email. Pretty useless.

@Davidhi
I completely agree

@Quarterbore
Vb.org says he logged in today ALL the time. Every day it says he's logged in. I asked Gio about it a long time ago and he said he doesn't login everyday and vb.org is inaccurate. Maybe some cron job is running that shows him as being logged in? If he HAS logged in every day... why would he ignore all these posts? He hasn't replied to any of his product threads either.