I don't buy the whole "they're broke" idea. Mallick obviously is/was a very rich dude. His movie was a major flop - a loss of $19million (some of which he will make back from DVD sales, etc). But there is no possible way he financed a $20million movie if $20mil was all he had (including our funds).
So, there's no question in my eyes that Mallick CAN pay it back, even if it's out of his own personal bank accounts. It's just a matter of whether this guy is a real scammer/thief or not.
When I take a step back, I think a lot of the conspiracy theories here (including some of my own) have fed on themselves and pretty much become the truth. Considering Mallick and Co are doing nothing to refute them, all we are doing is consuming ourselves with our own negative ideas and building on them every day.
So for the sake of a different perspective, let's look at some things....
- Mallick has stated before any of this that epass and the movie have nothing to do with each other (worst case, he lied completely and physically used all of our money....honestly I don't think he would've had to do this. The guy is loaded from past businesses and the millions that epass made him)
- Mallick has stated many times that Middle Men is just the start of his movie producing career. He has to know that ripping us off is going to kill any possibility of that...it's going to haunt him in every future business he enters (we'll make sure of that)
- Our pending ACH/CC withdrawals are back in our wallets. Why do this if there isn't a reason? Yes, the reason could be to make it look legit before he fucks us in our assholes. And yes, it could be automated...but doubtful considering they're completely shut down.
- On the same note, why let us look at our wallet balance at all if he plans on ripping us off? To let us get all the screenshots/proof so we can sue him? I doubt it. If this was all planned from day one (I highly doubt that), he would've shut off access to even SEE our funds
- I'm not an expert on this, but surely when hundreds of people withdraw millions of dollars at the same time, it takes some time to do that...right? We can safely assume our money wasn't just sitting in a safe somewhere, so maybe it takes time to get it all back in one place to send the wires. There's no way Mallick anticipated ever having to deal with giving ALL of the wallet money back at the same time. Even the most honest person wouldn't anticipate that....would've been nice if he did though.
- Epass was up front about their relationship to United Trust after we all initially started bothering Elias in mid September...they explained their relationship to them in a letter on the site. It DID make sense, but we all chose to essentially ignore it....possibly with good reason, but possibly just because we were pissed.
- Some bigger clients who Mallick didn't want to piss off got paid early....and they got paid A LOT. This shows that they aren't broke. It shows taht they're fucking assholes, yes, but obviously not broke. It's highly doubtful that he paid a couple million to his bigger clients and then all of a sudden ran out of money to pay the next couple million to all of us.
- He referred to all of us on facebook as "crazies" ....this obviously pissed us off because we just want our money, but what if, to him, we are crazy because he fully plans to do exactly what he has said - pay us back? It's also possible that he's delusional and out of touch with reality, yes, but let's assume he isn't for a second and then look at the "crazies" remark.
Okay, I'm out of bullet points for now. I fully realize I'm probably being naive, but considering we are all feeding on each other and adding bad news onto bad news, I thought it might be nice to look at it from a different perspective...
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