Maybe I can help ya out..
Several years ago I dealt with Jim..
Did a ton of business with him on Custom videos on MiniDV...
Things went fine for a bit...
Then I had a big order for over $1k for a shitload of custom videos..
It was one excuse after another, we went back and forth for friggin 5-6 months with false promises..
It's a very long story and I'm not going to bore you with all of the details... (at the same time, I had another dude Samuel Storm from synister screw with me as well..)
Anywhoo.. he ended up giving me a
crapload of his shitty non-exclusive content to "compensate me" (half the videos didn't play right, and the images were pretty amateur). I took it because I was at the point where "something is better than nothing"... I haven't really used too much of the shit.. like a dozen or two videos maybe..
Then out of the blue he contacted me in September '06 offering me ALL of his content.. (everything, including a ton of his "partner" photogregg's content), with resale rights, releases, id's etc...
His price was friggin cheap as hell, but after my experience with him before I was a bit nervous.. he wanted me to send him the $ and he'd fed ex me all of his minidv masters along with the photo content on a hard drive..
I explained to him that because he screwed me before, i was hesitant to do business with him. I told him I had proven my trustworthiness to him in the past, so I would agree as long as he sent me the content first.
He agreed, he asked for my address and told me I would have them via fed ex in a couple days,
A couple days passed.. nothing.. i emailed him, no response.... and he has not been on ICQ since then...
Ironically you speak of a hard drive crash causing you to lose your content from content2die4 lol.. same thing happened to me, the harddrive i had his content on totally burned out (clinking and clanking), i was however able to recover 90% of it (freezer trick)...
Anywhoo.. I have about 73GB of his crap.. (over 90,000 files) but the problem is i am missing a ton of ID's... (and some of it looks like I got someone else’s exclusives by mistake, and i am sure his non-asian shit that i have was not shot by him, but it was stuff he had resale rights to)... 1/2 of the videos are messed.. like they can be ffwrd'ed because they are indexed wrong, or like in a 30 min video they go black for the last 10 min..
If you want to sort through what I have
I'll trade ya this 80GB drive that is full of his crap on it for a new 250GB IDE Hard Drive,
Tiger Direct has them for $59 after $20 rebate..
(My SATA is full on both my systems, and the IDE is cheaper anyway)
I'm sure you don't want to shell out another $59 after he did that to ya, but it's the best I can do..