Six months Angel?! Lucky you :p
http://www.gofuckyourself.com/showth...threadid=46161
Here's a thread that relates to work I did for HM almost a year ago now. Like Angel, Amp & Fletch's buddy, it was never paid for by HM, although I am sure Nick from Payserve would have paid him for them.
This is what I cannot understand and is what ultimately pisses me off and stops me from feeling sorry for him; Client comes to Hungryman requiring some design work to be done. HM agrees on a price with the client etc and outsources the work to another designer, agreeing to pay them something like 40/50% of whatever the client agrees to pay him. HM whips the designer's ass to complete the work ASAP. HM settles payment with the client, but no, HM doesn't take 40/50% out of it and send it straight to the designer who did the work, he keeps it for himself and obviously spends it or whatever, then comes back to his designers with the excuse of HAVING NO MONEY!
That is what never made any sense to me. The % required to pay the designer should have been taken straight out of the client's payment for the job in question. Angel and I feel completely scammed by this guy, I'm sure Amp and Fletch's mate feel the same way. I don't want to sound like an asshole, and no offense to DH, I know you're just trying to help the guy, but is what HM did to all of us much better than what we flame russian scammers for on here? And now you are starting threads, donating money and saying how sorry you are that his wife kicked him out? He gets no sympathy from me for the sole fact that he took money that was rightfully his designers' and used it for himself. What's next, the Slava and Footnic charity drive?
I don't really give a shit about the money anymore, I know I'm not going to see squat, the thing I can't stand is being fucked over by people like him and seeing others getting fucked over by people like him as well. Enough is enough, designers are SICK TO DEATH of being whipped, asskicked and forced to work like dogs to complete work and meet insane deadlines only to receive excuse after excuse from the client (or in this case, broker) regarding payment. What's the problem? You expect us to pull allnighters and finish a 6 page site tour + 50 banners working nonstop until finished, but you SOMEHOW find it too difficult to login to your paypal account and click a couple buttons in under a year?
Bah.