Liquid By Design Statement
In July 2002 I formed Liquid By Design a company that was to serve both mainstream and adult designs. My mission was to provide both quality and affordable design work with a customer service base.
Before I continue further, I feel I need to make my intentions noted: the delay in this statement is due to the fact that I have been ill and in the hospital since Wednesday of last week and I also had to consult legal on a few issues before I made a public statement regarding issues I wanted to discuss here.
I also need to make the statement that after I post this I will not be replying to the statements made here in?If you would like to inquire further on a subject that is directly related to business you have with Liquid by Design you may contact me via e mail.
In July 2002 David (AKA BAT) contacted me about doing contracted design work for Liquid By Design, with that he brought with him his ?Portfolio? and gave it to Liquid By Design to use freely in our website. His portfolio was published and we began advertisings for business. Within 24 hours I received a copy write infringement notice related to David?s design work from Gammae Entertainment. At that time I was informed by Gammae that David had a two year no compete with Gammae and was not allowed to work for other companies as a designer. I complied with Gammae?s request and removed all items they had concerns with. David then created ?Mock? type designs for the portfolio that included Lesbians Kisses, last month I was informed that in fact Zoran accused Liquid By Design of copying that site from None other than Mike Wylde. The posts were made onhttp://www.freeadultgraphics.com/msgboard/message.cgi and the site accused of being copied is:
http://www.brownhairgirls.com the site developed by Bat is in our portfolio at:
http://www.liquidbydesign.com/paysit...ses/index.html
To my knowledge the design was an original work created by David and let the matter go? I apologize to Mr. Wylde if in fact the design is a copy and upon request will remove it from our portfolio.
David and I discussed the issues with Gammae and he continued to be interested in working. With that he created a new identity and began designing contracted project work for Liquid By Design. When the Ice Cold Cash contest came I asked David if he would design me an Ice Cold Cash site, he agreed and he was t be paid the 400.00 for design and a 1000.00 bonuses if we in fact won the contest. It took along time and a ton of ICQ messages and e mails to receive payment. We also received more design work from this company to include 2 pay sites, banners, joins pages and more. All work was completed and approved by the staff rep for the company, all sites were delivered, and I continue to wait for payment for some of the work for these projects.
I then offered David a full time position working with Liquid By Design that gave him a yearly salary of 50K American per year. Once he became employed full time he was instructed that all design work, psd?s etc. Became property of Liquid By design and he was not aloud to use any work in his personal portfolio. On three separate occasions I had to ask David to remove those from his personal website. For two reasons: one because he agreed to this and two because of the contracts with Gammae Entertainment. I continue to stand by this and he is not allowed nor will he be allowed to display the work in his portfolio.
Questions regarding the designs he created are quite simple. My company is a Wisconsin based company, David was hired as a full time employee with this company, there are no designs he has not been paid for, there are only hours he has not been paid for. Therefore he has no right to any designs, nor does he have the right to display these in his portfolio.
I feel awful about what has happened to David, I feel awful that he signed an agreement with Gammae that put him in a position that he could not freely work as a designer, as talented as he is, I feel horrible inside that my personal life made it impossible for me to make payroll in October to him for the hours he worked for me. I feel awful that my pride got in the way of being 100% honest with him about events that were unfolding in my life and with the business that I had no control of. I feel awful that I entrusted a long time online friend to borrow me the payroll telling me he sent it and then basically disappearing from the earth with the money and telling both David and I the money was sent to him.
I was not going to get into the personal issues that led to most of this but have decided a brief explanation is needed. In September my marriage of 10 years was being dissolved and all assets from my company were frozen as community property assets. So all monies in my business accounts were frozen and will not be released until March 2003. I tried everything to get the money together for David, because he was my friend and because he had worked the hours, I tried borrowing the money from the bank, but because of the divorce, they decided it was too risky to loan the money after they had initially told me they were going to. I had borrowed the money from a long time internet friend who said he would do it and told David he had sent the money and then never did, and now this so called friend won?t even talk to me or answer my calls. During all these events, the stress resulted in medial problems including a bleeding ulcer, chronic migraines and some other medical issues. My statement comes after spending 5 days in the local hospital trying to get the bleeding and vomiting under control. My divorce has made me very emotional and has basically financially ruined me.
I never meant to not pay David. He is my friend. I made some bad choices in decisions I made with events that occurred after my personal life events unraveled. To be honest with you all, the divorce has put me in financial despair. I am loosing more then just a business by these events. I have 4 children who are now forced to leave there home and schools, I am loosing my home, my cars my life?. Those of you who know me and know who I am know that this is true, that my life has been ruined because my husband couldn?t keep his dick in his pants and that he destroyed the lives of me and the kids but in the process destroyed my business also. That since this post I have used all financial resources I have and am in desperate need. It sucks that Darren and my husband destroyed my life in the matter of two months.
As for the gentleman that started this post, your only complaint with this company is the length of time it has taken to get your work done. My personal financial life is none of your fucking business. Your slanderous remarks about me and accusations about me and who I am are unjustified. You didn?t even have the balls to ask me?. So fuck you?. And still you have my company complete your designs. We never ripped your fucking ass off? You paid half down for three designs; two are complete one if almost complete. Yeah it took way to fucking long I agree, at one point they were all done and you didn?t like men?s network so we are recreating it for you, and you are pleased with the design so far. Technically and legally, you own one of those designs, though you are in possession of two of the designs, so technically until full payment is made on design two you owe me fucking money. I was willing to do Men?s Network for free, but you know what I think I would be a fool now to do that so this is the way it sits. You paid me down payment, not even 50% of the design costs?.. 1635.00 As a down payment for these designs. Which took over a week to get before the designs could even be started. The original price per design was 1499.00 for the first design and 1125.00 for the next two (based on the invoice sent to you dated 10/8/2002). That would have required a down payment of 1875.00, so technically if you want to look at the big picture my friend, who is ripping who off here? You owe me? another: You still owe me 240.00 towards the down payment, plus 750.00 for the completion of design number two and another 1125.00 for the completion of design number three?.
So David should be hoping right now that YOU pay your debts to us so he can get his payroll for October since you are holding pretty much all of it. In fact you can send the 990.00 at anytime Darren or are you going to rip us off? Screw David out of his money? And if you do not want men?s network that is fine by me?. I will just make sure I let the 50,000 adult webmasters and surfers no how you don?t pay your bills?. How YOU rip off designers?. And lastly, if you ever threaten me or call me slanderous names again I will not only sue you, I will go to ever length to discredit you and your ability to be trusted, I will work until my last breath to create a world so miserable for you that you will not know what hit you. You are a coward for bringing issues you had no idea about to the public and calling names like a four year old child. An adult in the business world never act the way you have. It shows how childish and immature you really are. Not only do you not pay your bills you act like a 4 year old that cries and whines and calls names. I actually for a split second felt sorry for you?.