I just got a frickin great idea.

I paid you up front. Twas only $25 but hey.

I think you're the only client ever that paid me upfront. :)
I think, not sure.

what was the total # of galleries promised you and what was the quality of the galleries received?

That sucks.. There's a ton of great people in this thread who would probably be pleased to help you out.. I know I would (although I'm quite busy for the next week or two). Hopefully you'll get the results you want. Best of luck hon.

Fix your sig before the mods do. It's too fucking big.

200 including content. The quality was good.

200 galleries + images for only 1300 and you thought this was for real?

1 gallery= 6.5
lowest quality content= 5
lowest quality gallery design= 5
you would still owe him 3.5 per gallery in the lowest price scenario. Sorry, but it was quite obvious this would happen :(

I Ordered 10 galleries for $100. I paid an extra $20 to get mine done early. It's been over 30days and I've received 6 galleries. .. but one of the galleries they made me i saw being used on another tgp.. so they sold me a gallery design that they had already sold someone else. Same sponsor same exact design. I asked them about this.. they said they sent me the wrong zip file and i'd get another gallery plus the 4 they owed me.. a few days ago they said.. your galleries are ready for delivery tonight.. well it's been 2 days and still no galleries.. i'm just glad i didn't send them a big order.. but if they can't do 10 galleries in 30 days or less than they got big problems.

PetMyKitty,

They took an order from you in the last 30 days??? :feels-hot

.. and you paid extra to get them done early???? :mad:

Shit, while we wait for shit thats been paid for since march!! they continue to signup new rip-offee's

I dont give a fuck how nice these people are, they are lying thieves!

DD

Add me to the list of victims. I received 10% of my order placed at the end of January. After 3-1/2 months of excuses I eventually gave up on the rest and just walked away from it - it was costing me more in lost work time and long distance calls than the cost of the galleries.

I guess I was lucky to get a handful of galleries. A big watch-out with these guys; Joe was all talk, no action.

yup they still owe me about 35 galleries. pretty lame deal if you ask me. :drinkup

just to add another note maybe we should all ad a spot in our webmasters programs telling webmasters not to waste their money on gallery people. what do you guys think?

More like $3.50 per gallery and 30 cents per pic.

Medical issues?!?
http://www.thegallerypeople.com/feedback.html

Its not a question of paying 50% upfront. I was referring to their policy of accepting 100% up front. I have been on both sides of the losing battle, not getting paid for work I have done and not getting work I have paid for. Never lost 100% because I believe in th 50% rule. Doesnt make scamming better cause you only loose/gain 50% but it does seem to deter it.

Yes of course there is scammers on both sides... THIS THREAD however is devoted to a certain company who handled their affairs so poorly that we all would love to honor them with the scammer of the year award. WHICH brings me to peoples need to lie. It gets you no where. Thegallerypeople did their fair share of lying and avoiding contact and just ignoring people. wooohooo what a great business model.

I dont care is someone is sick or had a tornado take down their house and office... you get your fat ass to a computer as fast as possible and you make sure your clients know whats going on and apologize and state that as soon as humanly possible they will get their stuff. You contact them often to say thanks for hanging in there waiting etc. You dont let your customers stew and get angry enough to finally go to the boards because of your lack of communication with them.

Exactly. One of my designers I offer pay upfront and he says "I will take payment when I am done okay"

certainly we trust each other.

I ordered 30 galleries and got a lot of excuses too. So far, i've received 3. Joe seemed like an OK guy and told me he'd been sick and in hospital. I gave him a break and decided to be patient.

To find out now that the biz has been sold is not restoring my faith in human nature. :)

Hope he still comes through.

Sigh

My $350 order went in in early Feb, and I got nothing but excuse after excuse.

Whats fucked up is he'll be back as some other designer within a few months hangin around other webmaster boards starting his shit again, shit, he's probably already doing it now.

yeah maybe a little over a month ago. I got 6 galleries.. 1 of which they had sold to someone else too. I guess i'm lucky.. looks like i got more out of them then most did... also.. i had to send 2 back because of very blatant mispellings that even my 6 year old would have noticed.

they got me for a couple hundred dollars as well :feels-hot

Joe - GFY!

They basically sold everyone the same templates with minor changes.

Another webmaster and myself compared the pages we got from them, and even though the pages were promoting different programs and niches, you could tell they were made from the same template.

this gallery was the exact same gallery.. same sponsor.. same graphics.. when asked about it they said.. oops we just sent you the wrong zip file..

yeah right.

The list is getting quite long :)

Too bad they didn't rip off Deepsy.

Well, I'll throw my 2 cents in..
I paid them in early January for 50 galleries..
paid 5 bucks a piece..got 5 galleries so far..and a whole lotta "the check's in the mail shit"
had a talk with him this morning on icq..told him I wanted my money back..he said he make my stuff asap special..
yeah..specially up my ass..
I told him this shit is wrong..people are comparing you to all the rest of the net scammers..if your not, then prove it..
So I told him I wanted my money back and gave him a deadline of tomorrow afternoon or I will go to the attorney general's office here in New York and file a complaint..and believe me I will..Just for the satisfaction..

You're doing the right thing.. If everyone would do this kind of thing, scammers like Rockstar and many others wouldn't be in business much longer.

The list is getting very long.

I'm not fat at all.

I'm looking better than ever

:)

Show your man boobs!

I ordered 100 galleries a couple months ago and I only got 4. No replies lately?

Diabolical Designers are owing me some galleries too?
:feels-hot

Sorry to hear about that, Toni.


Strange that no one hasn't done anything about this before.

I used to order small quantities of thumbnail pages and banners etc. I found out pretty quick with them that small orders were done quite quickly, but my first largish order took nearly two months to do. (paysite tour, that looked great but didn't convert, so I changed back to my more amateur looking tour) I was happy with the quality of their work so I continued requesting their work but only whith small orders, that way they were always done within a week or so.

Thanks Spooky

use ladyM, mark tiarra, or demented.

All of those guys can bang out near 3 or 4 a day, and will give you an exact time frame they will stick to.

Wow I can't believe all the people that lost money with this. Right now I am booked another week and a half. We can do small orders 1-5 galleries in this time. And larger orders we will book starting at a week and a half. We also have great deals on bulk deals. The site has a few templates up but hit me up on icq for some more samples.

The way we have been doing this with larger orders is to give the client 5 galleries each day, that way any modifications can be made timely and then you know we are doing your galleries!

Thanks for not sending me the refund for the FOURTH time (in the last 2 weeks) :ak47:

#1 - Unknown reason
#2 - "Kevin", the new owner forgot to mail it
#3 - Forgot to pay postage
#4 - Who knows?

:ak47:

Yeah I ordered 10 galleries a few months back. Only $80 but it still sucks dick.

200 galleries + content, THAT sucks butt.