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Don Pueblo · 08-06-2009, 07:33 PM

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What the fuck is going on?

Where is Mark Womack?

DaddyHalbucks · 08-06-2009, 10:53 PM

Yipes, that doesn't sound good.

Barefootsies · 08-06-2009, 11:02 PM

pocketkangaroo · 08-06-2009, 11:08 PM

T minus 5 posts till "don't worry he's a great guy, shared a Michelob light at a show once".

Holly · 08-06-2009, 11:17 PM

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Originally Posted by Don Pueblo

What the fuck is going on?

Where is Mark Womack?

Apparently, he's getting ready for his birthday party.

Intrinsic · 08-06-2009, 11:24 PM

That company is so big there's no way thatll happen
/enron

notime · 08-07-2009, 02:30 AM

"We regret to inform you that MadisonAvenue.com will cease operations no later than August 14th, 2009. For more information please contact [email protected]"
(their homepage states this in the top right corner)

Lace · 08-07-2009, 07:46 AM

GirlsOnYou · 08-07-2009, 07:54 AM

Yep, I was told by Marc Womack Chief Executive Officer that they are closing their office when I asked how much I was owed for mobile traffic lol.. so I guess we won't get our money.

Agent 488 · 08-07-2009, 08:02 AM

sucks balls.

BradM · 08-07-2009, 08:08 AM

Glad I didn't go for that 5k campaign they pitched me last week.

SmokenCess · 08-07-2009, 08:09 AM

this is fucking bull shit

gwidomains · 08-07-2009, 08:10 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BradM

Glad I didn't go for that 5k campaign they pitched me last week.

wow. that's fucked.

cherrylula · 08-07-2009, 08:11 AM

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Originally Posted by Holly

Apparently, he's getting ready for his birthday party.

Happy Birthday Mark!

crockett · 08-07-2009, 08:13 AM

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Originally Posted by BradM

Glad I didn't go for that 5k campaign they pitched me last week.

Damn that's pretty fucked if they were still trying to scam people out of advertising money knowing they were closing shop.

SoloGirlsContent · 08-07-2009, 08:13 AM

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Originally Posted by pocketkangaroo

T minus 5 posts till "don't worry he's a great guy, shared a Michelob light at a show once".

SoloGirlsContent · 08-07-2009, 08:17 AM

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Originally Posted by notime

"We regret to inform you that MadisonAvenue.com will cease operations no later than August 14th, 2009. For more information please contact [email protected]"
(their homepage states this in the top right corner)

HOLY CWRAP BATMAN

Don Pueblo · 08-07-2009, 02:25 PM

Chargeback city batman

Roby · 08-07-2009, 02:57 PM

got lette from Marc

I've got some news for you on your outstanding payment and I apologize this is a cut/paste email but I've got a ton of folks to send this to.

Unfortunately the news isn't good. We're shutting down MadAve most likely on Monday. We've been operating at a loss from day one and we're simply out of money. Last month I closed the office keeping on only the head programmer, support guy, and sales guy in hopes to bring us to profitability. This might have worked in 3-4 months

But we simply couldn't afford to keep things going until then. I've spent the last 30 days trying to find a "buyer" for the system to keep it running. I put "buyer" in quotes because I wasn't even trying to sell MadAve for money. I was offering the domain name, the software, everything for the cost of assuming all the debt by getting Publishers current and keeping the Advertisers campaigns running. Unfortunately with today's crappy economic conditions I couldn't find anyone to take this deal.

So what we're doing is an orderly wind-down of the business. All assets of the company are being collected and will be sold obtaining the highest value possible. We will use the proceeds from this to pay creditors (everyone we owe money to).

When will you get paid? How much will you get paid? I don't have answers to those questions yet. The primary assets of the company are the domain name and the actual software that runs the system. I've put the MadisonAvenue.com domain name under contract RickLatona.com (premier domain broker) to sell. If they haven't found a buyer by their next big auction (in October) they'll auction it off then. Generating money to pay creditors off the software itself is going to be tougher. Someone has to have need of an ad sales and ad serving network. Also I'm hoping to find people who are willing to license the software rather than buy it outright and exclusively. This way we can lease it to multiple people to generate even more income to pay off creditors with. Really just depends on what buyers we can find, what they want, and what will generate the most revenue to pay folks off with.

I've already started getting hatemail on this and I know the message boards are on fire. Bottom line, I've been paying my own money to keep MadAve alive for six months and I'm flat fucking broke at this point. I'm not sure how I'm paying rent next month. So for what it's worth I fully understand how not being paid on time hurts your bottom line but I assure you mine is worse.

So I'll keep you posted as this progresses. The most important thing right now is for you to pull your MadAve codes and put something else up as those will stop working most likely on Monday. In case someone buys the domain name quickly I suggest saving / using my personal email addy from now on to communicate: [email protected].

Regards,

Marc Womack

Chief Executive Officer

www.MadisonAvenue.com

BradM · 08-07-2009, 03:11 PM

Cool story bro

bdld · 08-07-2009, 05:41 PM

that's why i always start small and build up, rather than dump a lot of money into a project and hope it works out.

weekly · 08-07-2009, 05:57 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Roby

got lette from Marc

I've got some news for you on your outstanding payment and I apologize this is a cut/paste email but I've got a ton of folks to send this to.

Unfortunately the news isn't good. We're shutting down MadAve most likely on Monday. We've been operating at a loss from day one and we're simply out of money. Last month I closed the office keeping on only the head programmer, support guy, and sales guy in hopes to bring us to profitability. This might have worked in 3-4 months

But we simply couldn't afford to keep things going until then. I've spent the last 30 days trying to find a "buyer" for the system to keep it running. I put "buyer" in quotes because I wasn't even trying to sell MadAve for money. I was offering the domain name, the software, everything for the cost of assuming all the debt by getting Publishers current and keeping the Advertisers campaigns running. Unfortunately with today's crappy economic conditions I couldn't find anyone to take this deal.

So what we're doing is an orderly wind-down of the business. All assets of the company are being collected and will be sold obtaining the highest value possible. We will use the proceeds from this to pay creditors (everyone we owe money to).

When will you get paid? How much will you get paid? I don't have answers to those questions yet. The primary assets of the company are the domain name and the actual software that runs the system. I've put the MadisonAvenue.com domain name under contract RickLatona.com (premier domain broker) to sell. If they haven't found a buyer by their next big auction (in October) they'll auction it off then. Generating money to pay creditors off the software itself is going to be tougher. Someone has to have need of an ad sales and ad serving network. Also I'm hoping to find people who are willing to license the software rather than buy it outright and exclusively. This way we can lease it to multiple people to generate even more income to pay off creditors with. Really just depends on what buyers we can find, what they want, and what will generate the most revenue to pay folks off with.

I've already started getting hatemail on this and I know the message boards are on fire. Bottom line, I've been paying my own money to keep MadAve alive for six months and I'm flat fucking broke at this point. I'm not sure how I'm paying rent next month. So for what it's worth I fully understand how not being paid on time hurts your bottom line but I assure you mine is worse.

So I'll keep you posted as this progresses. The most important thing right now is for you to pull your MadAve codes and put something else up as those will stop working most likely on Monday. In case someone buys the domain name quickly I suggest saving / using my personal email addy from now on to communicate: [email protected].

Regards,

Marc Womack

Chief Executive Officer

www.MadisonAvenue.com

Anyone believe this?

sandman! · 08-07-2009, 06:04 PM

sounds real to me....

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Originally Posted by weekly

Anyone believe this?

baddog · 08-07-2009, 06:05 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by weekly

Anyone believe this?

What's to not believe?

weekly · 08-07-2009, 06:06 PM

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Originally Posted by baddog

What's to not believe?

That anyone will get paid...for starters closely followed by orderly wind down.

Fletch XXX · 08-07-2009, 06:10 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BradM

Glad I didn't go for that 5k campaign they pitched me last week.

thats how they all do it ... sarah Palin left office with over 1 mil in her PAC.

BlackCrayon · 08-07-2009, 07:47 PM

Where is Rick Latona? Isn't that his baby?

baddog · 08-07-2009, 09:47 PM

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Originally Posted by weekly

That anyone will get paid...for starters closely followed by orderly wind down.

I would not be spending it yet.

weekly · 08-08-2009, 09:15 AM

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Originally Posted by baddog

I would not be spending it yet.

Perhaps they will pay their creditors in Netpond Points.

BAKO · 08-09-2009, 10:18 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BradM

Glad I didn't go for that 5k campaign they pitched me last week.

I went for it and now i'm fucked out of 5k and some other money that was owed to me for reselling my traffic

MisterSark · 08-10-2009, 04:05 AM

I'm fucked for 8k campaign they asked me to add another 5k in funds 1 week before they went bankrupt so I could get discount. Sounds like scam.

cprp · 08-10-2009, 04:24 AM

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Originally Posted by crockett

Damn that's pretty fucked if they were still trying to scam people out of advertising money knowing they were closing shop.

they scammed me for 5k which is still on deposit, i want this back asap

k0nr4d · 08-10-2009, 04:44 AM

the 5k deals were probably an effort to generate some income to keep everything afloat, not a scam.

Rick Latona · 08-10-2009, 05:50 AM

I have nothing to do with this other than I am auctioning off the domain for Marc.

I split from that company years ago.

Icy · 08-11-2009, 10:36 AM

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Originally Posted by k0nr4d

the 5k deals were probably an effort to generate some income to keep everything afloat, not a scam.

Yes, good effort... specially if he runs that campaign just before closing down, then keeps it all and doesn't pay anybody with it, so he ended stealing even more from that "effort".

Tjeezers · 08-11-2009, 10:50 AM

this is a pretty fucked up thing

fris · 08-11-2009, 11:58 AM

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Originally Posted by k0nr4d

the 5k deals were probably an effort to generate some income to keep everything afloat, not a scam.

I know someone that deposited 50k in the past weeks.

woj · 08-11-2009, 12:47 PM

sounds like some major ownage took place... $5k here,$50k there... altogether 100s of thousands were probably stolen by the sound of it...

notime · 08-11-2009, 01:34 PM

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Originally Posted by fris

I know someone that deposited 50k in the past weeks.

That's gotta hurt. Serious money.

Dirty Dane · 08-11-2009, 01:39 PM

That sucks.

gwidomains · 08-11-2009, 01:49 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by woj

sounds like some major ownage took place... $5k here,$50k there... altogether 100s of thousands were probably stolen by the sound of it...

definitely, I'd be trying to freeze the bank account and offices to make sure assets don't just walk away from the company.

Robocrop · 08-11-2009, 03:08 PM

I have a feeling this guy bought some private stuff for your cash boyz.

Tjeezers · 02-01-2010, 01:19 AM

Mark is now fine, he works at GossipKings

So he is making money! I am sure soon he will post a famous " PAY BACK " thread.

FreeHugeMovies · 02-01-2010, 01:26 AM

Who is sending traffic to Gossip Kinks?

xxxsquad · 02-01-2010, 01:43 AM

This don't sound good at all.

JD · 02-01-2010, 01:48 AM

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Originally Posted by Tjeezers

Mark is now fine, he works at GossipKings

So he is making money! I am sure soon he will post a famous " PAY BACK " thread.

no shit? wow... wonder where he got the $ to start that up..........

sandman! · 02-01-2010, 02:59 AM

who said its his program ?

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Originally Posted by JD

no shit? wow... wonder where he got the $ to start that up..........

CarlosTheGaucho · 02-01-2010, 06:38 AM

http://www.gossipkings.com/external.php?page=faq&nats=

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FAQ:

How often will I get paid?

Wonder where are they gonna buy advertising

fris · 02-01-2010, 08:18 AM

and he acts like nothing happened.

Tjeezers · 02-01-2010, 09:04 AM

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Originally Posted by fris

and he acts like nothing happened.

yeah it`s very weird

08-06-2009, 07:33 PM	#1
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Roby Confirmed User Industry Role: Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Praga Posts: 8,035	got lette from Marc I've got some news for you on your outstanding payment and I apologize this is a cut/paste email but I've got a ton of folks to send this to. Unfortunately the news isn't good. We're shutting down MadAve most likely on Monday. We've been operating at a loss from day one and we're simply out of money. Last month I closed the office keeping on only the head programmer, support guy, and sales guy in hopes to bring us to profitability. This might have worked in 3-4 months But we simply couldn't afford to keep things going until then. I've spent the last 30 days trying to find a "buyer" for the system to keep it running. I put "buyer" in quotes because I wasn't even trying to sell MadAve for money. I was offering the domain name, the software, everything for the cost of assuming all the debt by getting Publishers current and keeping the Advertisers campaigns running. Unfortunately with today's crappy economic conditions I couldn't find anyone to take this deal. So what we're doing is an orderly wind-down of the business. All assets of the company are being collected and will be sold obtaining the highest value possible. We will use the proceeds from this to pay creditors (everyone we owe money to). When will you get paid? How much will you get paid? I don't have answers to those questions yet. The primary assets of the company are the domain name and the actual software that runs the system. I've put the MadisonAvenue.com domain name under contract RickLatona.com (premier domain broker) to sell. If they haven't found a buyer by their next big auction (in October) they'll auction it off then. Generating money to pay creditors off the software itself is going to be tougher. Someone has to have need of an ad sales and ad serving network. Also I'm hoping to find people who are willing to license the software rather than buy it outright and exclusively. This way we can lease it to multiple people to generate even more income to pay off creditors with. Really just depends on what buyers we can find, what they want, and what will generate the most revenue to pay folks off with. I've already started getting hatemail on this and I know the message boards are on fire. Bottom line, I've been paying my own money to keep MadAve alive for six months and I'm flat fucking broke at this point. I'm not sure how I'm paying rent next month. So for what it's worth I fully understand how not being paid on time hurts your bottom line but I assure you mine is worse. So I'll keep you posted as this progresses. The most important thing right now is for you to pull your MadAve codes and put something else up as those will stop working most likely on Monday. In case someone buys the domain name quickly I suggest saving / using my personal email addy from now on to communicate: [email protected]. Regards, Marc Womack Chief Executive Officer www.MadisonAvenue.com __________________ PicsForDesign - images for your Promo Work for Designers and Artists

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