Originally Posted by TheSquealer

Probably me. He fucked me in 04 or so and I vowed I would never let his software be mentioned without me having something to say about who and what he is. He's tried posting on the boards in years past and I ran him off.

He's a slick salesman who is 100% full of shit. It was certainly one of the strangest things i'd ever seen and came right after me and my wife flying to Miami, meeting him and his wife, discussing a lot of details/docs, hanging out etc. I am very anal about documentation, mockups etc. So there was a lot to go over. I paid him to do some custom stuff that was close to what he was already doing with muscle magazine.com and a lot of features he had that he claimed were custom programmed and I wanted to develop an ad system that had extensive custom requirements (basically something to be built from scratch).

So, for what we agreed to a cost of $15,000.00, the fucking idiot bundled up a fresh download of vbulletin (cost what? 39.00?), a couple free plugins and openx (phpadsnew at the time which is free) and asked me to select a $30.00 template and I did, thinking it was about choosing a design/look/feel as a direction - which he then implemented as a "fully custom design". It was all really weird. I mean we went over extensive documentation and a lot of php coding needed to be done and he was giving me daily progress reports - which were all 100% bullshit. He quoted something like $3,000 for the ad system alone which I wanted built, and downloaded and installed a freeware ad system that had NONE of my requirements, saying "its done! Check it out!! cool huh?" and I recognized it right away as being the default/unmodified install of PhpAdsNew and he couldn't understand why I thought he was a retard, a liar and a scammer.

Basically, it was like wanting a custom website publishing system with a built in ad management system with some very specific requirements and he installs wordpress and a free theme, a plugin for ads and then says "hey man, you $15,000 worth of work is done - i really don't see what the problem is"

It was really insane. He seemed to have no clue why I was freaking out but I was already on the other side of the world again... although his wife seemed to, as if she'd been down that path before.