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Awhile back I was contacted by nate (I think he's billy on this board) from eroticadollars.com to design his webmaster program, some banners, and his tour for collegegirlsusa.cc. I said no problem, and that I would need 50% up front. He said he was short on cash at the moment, and that if I worked with him doing payments, that he would send me more business once his sites got rolling. we also spent a few hours on the phone discussing different things that he could do to make the members area better. I gave him urls to free content places, and some places that had inexpensive content plugins, thinking that this guy was on the up and up, and would end up being a long term customer. I told him I at least needed 500.00 up front for the work, since I didn't really know him, and he said no problem, and even overnighted me a check. I put it in the bank, and got to work. I finished up the work (which he LOVED BTW) and being the trusting guy that I am, uploaded it to his server, and the next day my bank calls and tells me that the check came back, so I had them put it back through. I let him know what had happened, because he had already sent me another check for 300.00, which was deposited a few days before. He tells me that he's having irs problems and they are messing with his account, apologizes profusely, and I'm like, that's cool, shit happens, let's just get this resolved. Well the check comes back again, and this time I also get a bounce on the 300.00 one as well... So I email him, and let him know that it came back, and that I wanted my money. I didn't hear from him, so I sent him another email, telling him that he needed to resolve this, before it got out of hand. A little song and dance email, and he asked me what I meant by out of hand. I told him I would have to press charges, as well as go to the message boards and let people know about the situation. Well he comes back with an email telling me that he is about to file bankruptcy, and if I didn't work with him by taking small amounts when he had it, he would put my bill in his bankruptcy, and I would only get 22 bucks a month for 5 years. I was livid, but I decided to give him a chance to call me, and to work this out, which he did, and I offered to let him make payments on the bill, on a weekly basis until it was paid off, just asking that he keep me up to date so I didn't have to beg. Well time goes by, and I get the money order's in the mail routine, never actually seeing anything. Out of shear luck, the 300.00 check snuck through a thrid time, and he had some cash in there, so it went through. I got this email, "hey I saw the check went through alright, I'm sending out more money today!" No money, I asked him what happened, oh it must be lost, I'll cancel it, and send out a new one tomorrow. fianlly I sent him an email asking what was up, and the last email I recieved said there was money on the way, and that was a month ago at least. I decided that I just wanted him to remove my work, and I would convert it to something else, and sell it to someone else or something turnkey. So I told him I wanted him to remove the artwork, and he has ignored me, yet posts on these boards, basicly mocking me, promoting a site that he doesn't even own in my book, and now he's talking about hiring photographers to do content for his site, but yet fails to send me what he owes...
I would have taken down the stuff myself, but my damn system crashed, and I lost his ftp information.
Bottom line is I just want my money or my work, I didn't wanna have to go to the boards, I don't wanna have to deal with attorneys, I don't wanna put the guy in jail, which I think I can do now that I reread some of his emails, and his knowing that the irs fucked up his checking account looks like intent. It's people like this that make it hard for all you guys to get favors from designers and programmers, even when they are friends of yours, and you've never fucked anyone over. Hell, up until this, I didn't even require a deposit a lot of times...
So that's my story... I know it's long, but if you guys know Mr. Nate Oulman of eroticadollars.com, maybe you could talk him into making this right, before I run out of options.
Thanks, and sorry for the novel on GFY
And this will be my last post about this I promise
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