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Originally Posted by Pornopat
There are more. I am sure even know other people stay silent in the hope of getting their money back.
As we both know Mickey was an excellent con man.
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I guess I can raise my hand at being out about $5k with him. I also kept quiet hoping I'd eventually get paid because I never took him as a scammer, just seemed like he was always taking on too many projects. (however who's to know what was really going on)
My $5k turned into a down payment on a partnership to start doing site builds for customers and he wanted me to move to the island, to help build the sites. We took on a group of sites to build and I did a lot of work grabbing galleries, doing thumbs, adding trades and even did some of the site layouts. I never saw a penny from it, nor did I ever get my own site built.
I have no clue if any of those guys ever got their money back, but I'm guessing it would be no, and I'm pretty certain they all paid him in full up front.
It's a shame really, I always liked him and he seemed to know his stuff and could have made some good money building those sites if they would have been built.
I wonder if this is a case of living out side his means and having one or two things go wrong that push over the domino's to the point he just said fuck it or if he just got lazy and wasn't working.. or hell I dunno I guess he could have been a scammer all along, but just didn't seem like it.
I do have to admit I've been damn good at not losing money with people in this biz but between this deal and having another project I paid out for which was unrelated, it really put me off adult and I've been laying low since.