If you paid a-conman via paypal, you can get a refund

[AmeliaG]

For a refund, go to https://www.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/we...&flow=md_buyer

I did a bunch of searches on gfy when I first started looking into content management software. My partner found the a-conman guy friendly and the guy said the software could do exactly what we wanted. The seller, Q, also said that he created aconman and Content God ripped him off down to spelling mistakes he made in the code. We figured that if a-conman was the original and we would be able to contact the original programmer for any additions we might want to commission, then we would go with that guy.

Well, Q promised to do the install by a specific date which was important for the RubberDollies.com launch for Spooky Cash. He missed the date, missed the later date agreed to, missed the too late date he promised, and in fact never got the software completely installed.

Q later admitted, after wasting tons of time for people on our end, that the software would not do what he described anyway. He later confessed that he was not actually even the programmer as he had represented.

He promised to refund payment Aug 22. Then claimed he had some bank issue and I would have to wait until the following Monday. Then he claimed he could not refund via Pay Pal, but he would give me a refund. He kept up his refund promises until the PayPal cutoff for fraud complaints. Now when I contact him to remind him to refund my money, he makes up excuses and is abusive.

The software is called "a conman" Q must think this is a great joke and I feel now like I should have known better.

If enough people file complaints with paypal about his rip-off software, then paypal will give everyone who bought his software a refund if they want it, no matter when it was purchased. If you are one of the many who have had problems with this conman and bought through paypal, please file a complaint at https://www.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/we...&flow=md_buyer

I've never brought anything like this to the boards before and I know it is not a lot of money, but it is more than I would drop in the street for no reason and I hate hate hate being scammed.

[Carrie]

A Conman is a real script name - "a content manager" - he didn't name it like that trying to be cute.
The actual script is open-source software available for free.

[cyberpunk]

AmeliaG,

I've been using this software for a long time, its GPL now and I've got a coder looking at tit to add some features I want to it. The database is fairly well done and should provide a good base. Let me know what featuers you wher elooking for I'll see if my coders can add them to the todo list, if you haven;t found anohter CMS by now.

[AmeliaG]

Originally posted by cyberpunk
AmeliaG,

I've been using this software for a long time, its GPL now and I've got a coder looking at tit to add some features I want to it. The database is fairly well done and should provide a good base. Let me know what featuers you wher elooking for I'll see if my coders can add them to the todo list, if you haven;t found anohter CMS by now.

Thank you very very much for the offer. At this point, I know Forrest has deleted every last bit of that sucky code from my server. I would honestly be concerned about there being backdoors in conman, even if a fixed-up version of the software could be built on it. The conman guy was just such a say-one-thing-and-do-another shady character that I feel kind of violated that he had access to my server at all.

Forrest bid out the job to a number of coders and I think he finalized who was going to be working for him on it already. What we wanted was honestly very simple, but Q claimed conman could do what we wanted and then, after endless wasted hours, he admitted that it could not do what we wanted.

[AM Jeff]

Hmmm...funny..sounds like my story too.
I been waiting almost 3 weeks to be settled up.

I got fucked also.
Does make ya wonder.

[AM Jeff]

Also, I must add.
I filed a complaint with paypal a while back with Q.
They ( Q ) closed their account and no money could be retrieved.

But yet. Q went on vacation for a week. Can back 2 days and then left for another week vacaton for a wedding.
Now, I am told, he was gonna pay me out of his pocket..but he didn't get paid himself.
Basically, he tourched our money without any services transfered.

Sad, I was gonna write up an artivle on the software and would have been promoted heavily.

Guess, he fucked himself in the long run.

[Snowone]

just out of curiosity, what didn't the software do that you wanted it to do?

[jact]

How or why are you people paying for a free open source script? I don't get it. There isn't a cost involved?

[AM Jeff]

Q was paid $200 for the installation.

Since there were no instructions on how to set it up.
Instead of fuckin it up. I paid him, since he was the installer in their website.

[jact]

Originally posted by AM Jeff
Q was paid $200 for the installation.

Since there were no instructions on how to set it up.
Instead of fuckin it up. I paid him, since he was the installer in their website.

Ah, so it wasn't paying for the script, it was paying for the installation. Gotchya.

[AmeliaG]

Originally posted by AM Jeff
Also, I must add.
I filed a complaint with paypal a while back with Q.
They ( Q ) closed their account and no money could be retrieved.

But yet. Q went on vacation for a week. Can back 2 days and then left for another week vacaton for a wedding.
Now, I am told, he was gonna pay me out of his pocket..but he didn't get paid himself.
Basically, he tourched our money without any services transfered.

Sad, I was gonna write up an artivle on the software and would have been promoted heavily.

Guess, he fucked himself in the long run.

Sounds like the same song and dance routine I got.

It is a violation of paypal's terms of service to close and open accounts to avoid following their refund policies or other terms. Ya might want to call paypal and tell 'em it is the same guy.

Amazing that someone would rip off a journalist and think that was going to be a good idea.

I'm working on bringing our cool naked guys site up to speed with our girls sites and your site in your sig looks like a great resource. Thanks!

[Dravyk]

AmeliaG, sorry to hear about problems you' and others have had with AConMan. Not the first time I've heard these things about my (one-time) competition. That sucks.

I do have to respond to this, however:

The seller, Q, also said that he created aconman and Content God ripped him off down to spelling mistakes he made in the code.

Now AmeliaG, if you say he said that, then I'll take your word that he said that. But I do have to respond to statement, so no slam on you.

And my response is ... BULL-FUCKING-SHIT!!!

First, Content God is no ripoff of AConMan. They have some features we haven't yet added. We have a ton of features they still don't have. It is a competing program. Pure and simple.

Additionally, the "spelling mistakes in the code" is another fucking lie!! Content God is PERL. AConMan is PHP. Two different languages!!!

Plus I have a long-term reputation in this industry for honesty, and anyone who knows me -- and there are plenty -- will attest to that.

Obviously sour grapes and dagger-in-the-back sales speak from Q as they couldn't get enough sales for their overpriced bugware once they had competition that they had went from a $3000 price tag down to "free."

As for Content God, it can do what people need. We have plenty of satisfied customers and growing every day. Our customer support is outstanding. The program is rock solid.

Don't take our word for it, check out a third-party's opinion, check out the review in AVN Online that just came out last week: http://www.avnonline.com/issues/2003...0903_001.shtml

AmeliaG and AM Jeff, I'm so appalled at this, if you wish to purchase either version of Content God, I will extend to you $200 off the normal price in lieu of your bad experiences with ConMan.

Contact me at dravyk at contentgod dot com if you wish to take me up on this offer.

[GrimShawn]

Very interesting!

[AmeliaG]

Originally posted by Dravyk
AmeliaG, sorry to hear about problems you' and others have had with AConMan. Not the first time I've heard these things about my (one-time) competition. That sucks.

I do have to respond to this, however:



Now AmeliaG, if you say he said that, then I'll take your word that he said that. But I do have to respond to statement, so no slam on you.

And my response is ... BULL-FUCKING-SHIT!!!

First, Content God is no ripoff of AConMan. They have some features we haven't yet added. We have a ton of features they still don't have. It is a competing program. Pure and simple.

Additionally, the "spelling mistakes in the code" is another fucking lie!! Content God is PERL. AConMan is PHP. Two different languages!!!

Plus I have a long-term reputation in this industry for honesty, and anyone who knows me -- and there are plenty -- will attest to that.

Obviously sour grapes and dagger-in-the-back sales speak from Q as they couldn't get enough sales for their overpriced bugware once they had competition that they had went from a $3000 price tag down to "free."

As for Content God, it can do what people need. We have plenty of satisfied customers and growing every day. Our customer support is outstanding. The program is rock solid.

Don't take our word for it, check out a third-party's opinion, check out the review in AVN Online that just came out last week: http://www.avnonline.com/issues/2003...0903_001.shtml

AmeliaG and AM Jeff, I'm so appalled at this, if you wish to purchase either version of Content God, I will extend to you $200 off the normal price in lieu of your bad experiences with ConMan.

Contact me at dravyk at contentgod dot com if you wish to take me up on this offer.

Given that everything else Q said turned out to be monumentally less than true, I would tend to believe you on that. I think my partner already contracted a custom solution, but I will forward this thread to him and I really appreciate the offer. Q's claims were made via ICQ to my partner by the way, so the specifics could be dug up if you care, although it sounds like you already know the words to that song.

[Karlitos]

i have downloaded AConMan and i can't even make the DB. Anybody has installed it under PHP 4 with phpmyadmin (to use the .sql file to create the DB correctly)?

[GeXus]

Get rid of a-conman.. its crap..

I just got adult engine from adultwebware.com -- OMG it owns!

[Fletch XXX]

a_conman - the guy that stole apple.coms design and people thought he would be honest?

BUAHAHAHA

[GeXus]

Originally posted by Fletch XXX
a_conman - the guy that stole apple.coms design and people thought he would be honest?

BUAHAHAHA

Yeah.. lol.. shouldnt it be obvious enough in the fact its called
"A Con Man".. it almost seems like a joke

[Dravyk]

Originally posted by AmeliaG
Given that everything else Q said turned out to be monumentally less than true, I would tend to believe you on that. I think my partner already contracted a custom solution, but I will forward this thread to him and I really appreciate the offer. Q's claims were made via ICQ to my partner by the way, so the specifics could be dug up if you care, although it sounds like you already know the words to that song.

hehe Naw, I'll pass. I bet if I don't know the exact words, I know the melody well enough I could fake the rest of it.

[Bucho]

I am using a-conman for 13 paysites, and it does a pretty good job...80-90% i'd say.

I had my own programmer install it, and fix it up so it works for my sites.

With it we can now update all sites 3-5 times pr day.

Its not as flexible as i would like it to be, and it was a real big job to add the content. But looking at the alternatives out there, and i did for quite a while, I think this is as good as most other apps.
Works for me anyway!

edit: Thinking back i remember that the guy behind the script actually helped us quite a lot getting the templates up etc. And he did so 100% free.

[AmeliaG]

Originally posted by Fletch XXX
a_conman - the guy that stole apple.coms design and people thought he would be honest?

BUAHAHAHA

I know, I know, the honest part was the name. My head is bruised from smacking myself in the forehead so many times over falling for this.

[AmeliaG]

Originally posted by Dravyk


hehe Naw, I'll pass. I bet if I don't know the exact words, I know the melody well enough I could fake the rest of it.

Please hit me up on icq some time when you get a chance. Mine is 337070007 We did http://www.rubberdollies.com/ a different way, but we might have some other stuff which would totally benefit from your thang. Got some questions for ya. Thanks again!