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Whats the worst you've ever been ripped off?

05-10-2006, 10:23 AM

I'd say that the worst thing that happened to me was getting jacked for about $3000+ in design work over 4 years ago (probably should have taken half up front, but it was a referral from a credible friend)

I am still friends with that person that referred the scamster, but I won't do large jobs like that without cash up front any more..

His name was Prentice Schuetz .. From Canada, Still not paid to this day...

I told him I was gonna come up to canada and break his legs before he dissapeared off the face of the earth, prolly someone else killed him, cuz word is he owed over $200,000 to other people, and his wife divorced him and took all his shit...

What is the worst ripoff thats ever happened to you? Who did it? And was it ever made right?

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05-10-2006, 10:25 AM

Signed to become partner in a rather large marketing firm while I was still under 18, got ripped from my profit share when company sold because contract was null underage...

Learned a lesson.

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05-10-2006, 10:28 AM

Originally posted by MikyMunki

Signed to become partner in a rather large marketing firm while I was still under 18, got ripped from my profit share when company sold because contract was null underage...

Learned a lesson.

hmm... IANAL, so i very may be wrong, but being 18 doesn't nullify contracts, I was under the impression that it just means the party under 18 years old can break it at any time without repercussions.
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05-10-2006, 10:30 AM

Few thousand dollars of lawyers, which I didn't have money for at the time, found otherwise.

I made a few bucks off the project, and got some great clients that stuck with me through it all...

But lost out on plenty.

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05-10-2006, 10:37 AM

Originally posted by MikyMunki

Signed to become partner in a rather large marketing firm while I was still under 18, got ripped from my profit share when company sold because contract was null underage...

Learned a lesson.

pretty impressive for under 18

but does that mean you dropped out of high school?
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05-10-2006, 10:37 AM

I got ripped off for David Lee Roth tickets at Madison Square Garden when I was 14
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05-10-2006, 10:38 AM

10k on ebay for some dvd's
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05-10-2006, 10:39 AM

I got ripped off buying pot

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05-10-2006, 10:40 AM

Originally posted by WDchris

I got ripped off for David Lee Roth tickets at Madison Square Garden when I was 14

That was the worst? I can see how devestating it was at 14, but how does that compare to anything you've lost nowadays? How much were the tickets?

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05-10-2006, 10:40 AM

Originally posted by Hornydog4cooter

10k on ebay for some dvd's

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05-10-2006, 10:41 AM

when i was younger i gave this guy $20 for some weed , and he went into the bar and out the back door , and i chased him with my friend for 3 blocks, he never came back and i never found him , everyone else i have gotten even with so it doesnt count..

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05-10-2006, 10:42 AM

its a toss up between having my car stolen and marriage
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05-10-2006, 10:45 AM

Originally posted by SmokeyTheBear

when i was younger i gave this guy $20 for some weed , and he went into the bar and out the back door , and i chased him with my friend for 3 blocks, he never came back and i never found him , everyone else i have gotten even with so it doesnt count..

LOL... this reminds me of a time I tried to buy some weed when I was 16 out in San Francisco.... It was the bait and switch shit, the dude showed us the real weed, and when we did the deal, he left a fake bag of moss at the drop spot... I chased his ass but he was quick as fuck..

Was soooo pissed... glad I don't smoke weed any more, too much risk if you have to buy from someone you don't know...

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05-10-2006, 10:47 AM

Originally posted by MikyMunki

Signed to become partner in a rather large marketing firm while I was still under 18, got ripped from my profit share when company sold because contract was null underage...

Learned a lesson.

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05-10-2006, 10:55 AM

not big but stupid.. 550$ from jon van den broeck here on gfy..

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05-10-2006, 10:55 AM

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05-10-2006, 10:58 AM

Well, my mom got ripped off of over $200k from a fraud bandit in early 2004 and had to go into bankruptcy because of it. I've been helping her out every month since, so i've been affecting by it tremendously. Long story short, feds won't go after the guy since aparently they have their hands full with terrorism and other bigger shit.

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05-10-2006, 10:59 AM

I bought tickets on ebay for about $700 and got an empty envelope. Fortunately, about 4 month later my lawyer got the money back.

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05-10-2006, 11:09 AM

$1000 that i gave an ex boyfriend and never saw him or the money again. He left to Chicago and never came back lol
I never got even although i just needed to give up his name to a few sources and he would have been in deeper trouble but i did not have it in me to hurt him.

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05-10-2006, 11:26 AM

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05-10-2006, 11:27 AM

ooops...that is 4 words

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05-10-2006, 11:35 AM

In mainstream life, 10K retirement fund fiasco.

In adult about $700. Bought a Little Red riding hood costume from an online lingerie shop (the model just HAD to have it) and they stole my CC and charged it up to $700 before I caught it.

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05-10-2006, 11:35 AM

Car stolen right from my home... so bummed.

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05-10-2006, 11:36 AM

It wasn't that bad, now that I think about it, insurance ended up covering it all, but its such a violating experience. I never slept the same when I owned that house.

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05-10-2006, 11:38 AM

Two words

AD STATS

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05-10-2006, 11:41 AM

Originally posted by FreeHugeMovies

Two words

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They owe me 10k!

isn't that greg atherton's deal, or am I thinking of some one else? if that's him, he's still posting here....
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05-10-2006, 11:43 AM

Originally posted by jjjay

pretty impressive for under 18

but does that mean you dropped out of high school?

Nope, worked the company while I was still in school. Actually got school credit for it too, allowing me take off an extra period earlier to handle my shit.

Good times

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05-10-2006, 11:46 AM

Originally posted by FreeHugeMovies

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They owe me 10k!

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05-10-2006, 11:46 AM

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05-10-2006, 11:47 AM

A dodgy offshore bank that I signed up for when I badly needed funds to buy a new server for a rocketing site, at the time I didn't have a Paypal account and USD cheques took 4-6 weeks to clear.

The first I knew about them closing was when my ATM card was declined. They ended up with around $USD2500 of my balance that was never recovered.
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05-10-2006, 11:48 AM

Originally posted by Juilan

In mainstream life, 10K retirement fund fiasco.

In adult about $700. Bought a Little Red riding hood costume from an online lingerie shop (the model just HAD to have it) and they stole my CC and charged it up to $700 before I caught it.

Why didn't you charge back?
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05-10-2006, 11:49 AM

in online work....I think i got ripped for 300 bucks....some cock sucker ....a few of us ran into him...Some belgium fuck!

offline, id have to go similar with Sicone....

I have an Ex that has a kid...that in all rights was mine, just not biologically.....so therefore when she deicdedto be a cheating whore, I had to forfeit all rights, havent seen him for over a year and a half....

thats my worst rip....

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05-10-2006, 11:51 AM

I've been ripped off on plenty of design jobs in the past. I now require 50% upfront, and then the rest prior to upload. Now if people disapear, or change their minds a billion times about the project I'm not screwed.
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05-10-2006, 11:52 AM

oh, and me and a partner were just recently screwed on a content deal, But it wasn't for too much money.
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05-10-2006, 11:54 AM

hmmmm. sent $ for an application 2000$ and the guy dissapeared...

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05-10-2006, 11:55 AM

Originally posted by potter

I've been ripped off on plenty of design jobs in the past. I now require 50% upfront, and then the rest prior to upload. Now if people disapear, or change their minds a billion times about the project I'm not screwed.

I haven't needed to worry about 50% up front with most clients as of yet, but I do keep me failsafes none the less.

Most people given a chance are decent... can't let a few assholes kill it for everyone.

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05-10-2006, 11:56 AM

I think like most people here the biggest ripoff was what Ibill did to us.

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05-10-2006, 12:19 PM

I got ripped off 12K from #@$#!@@#@.

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05-10-2006, 12:26 PM

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05-10-2006, 01:16 PM

When I was 18 I was SO desperate to move out of my parents house, I didn't have a car, support or anything and was SO desperate that I paid this girl at my work around 2k for a car that I never even SAW (who knows if it even existed), everytime I got a check I would give her half of it.

I was really ignorant and basically didn't know shit back then. And when I called the apt manager to see if the car was even parked there, the girl threatened me, that she would have all these gangsta guys come down and I would have to go get my guy friends or whatever... This was around 10 yrs ago...

I couldnt take it so I quit work and never came back.
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05-10-2006, 01:18 PM

Originally posted by rants

When I was 18 I was SO desperate to move out of my parents house, I didn't have a car, support or anything and was SO desperate that I paid this girl at my work around 2k for a car that I never even SAW (who knows if it even existed), everytime I got a check I would give her half of it.

I was really ignorant and basically didn't know shit back then. And when I called the apt manager to see if the car was even parked there, the girl threatened me, that she would have all these gangsta guys come down and I would have to go get my guy friends or whatever... This was around 10 yrs ago...

I couldnt take it so I quit work and never came back.

I don't mean to laugh, but that is fucking hilarious.

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05-10-2006, 01:21 PM

Originally posted by rants

When I was 18 I was SO desperate to move out of my parents house, I didn't have a car, support or anything and was SO desperate that I paid this girl at my work around 2k for a car that I never even SAW (who knows if it even existed), everytime I got a check I would give her half of it.

I was really ignorant and basically didn't know shit back then. And when I called the apt manager to see if the car was even parked there, the girl threatened me, that she would have all these gangsta guys come down and I would have to go get my guy friends or whatever... This was around 10 yrs ago...

I couldnt take it so I quit work and never came back.

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05-10-2006, 01:21 PM

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05-10-2006, 01:23 PM

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05-10-2006, 02:09 PM

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05-10-2006, 02:10 PM

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05-10-2006, 02:32 PM

Unforunately - no one has me beat in terms of pure dollar amount - matter of fact, you could take everyone who's owed money to them by IBILL - and all of them gather up 10 seperate friends who's ever been ripped off - mulitply that dollar amount by 50 and then maybe you'd be close.... but I doubt it
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05-10-2006, 02:49 PM

Originally posted by Bama

Unforunately - no one has me beat in terms of pure dollar amount - matter of fact, you could take everyone who's owed money to them by IBILL - and all of them gather up 10 seperate friends who's ever been ripped off - mulitply that dollar amount by 50 and then maybe you'd be close.... but I doubt it

That's a lot of $$

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05-10-2006, 04:24 PM

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05-10-2006, 04:31 PM

Originally posted by Nismo

I don't mean to laugh, but that is fucking hilarious.

Well when your 18 your basically a kid, I was anyways, and didn't know about contracts or how to buy something from someone properly. Plus I lived in a dysfunctional home so I had no support from my parents, as in to how a buy a car, helping me get my drivers license by taking me to the dmv... or anything like that at all. If I wanted to go to the dmv back then I probably would have to take the bus, I also had no friends back then to give me a ride or help me. I was basically on my own.

Some 18 yr olds are very intelligent and street-smart, I wasn't one of them, thats for sure.

I was also very sheltered and didn't have a lot of friends to really to give me advice or guide me. I was basically bullied by that girl and to be honest she kind of scared/intimidated me so I just didn't say anything. We worked together at some crappy place together and she was one of the few friends I actually did have so I guess I didn't want to not have ANY friends so I went along with it even though I had a bad feeling about it.

It's been over 10 yrs now and I've learned a lot since then

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