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Originally Posted by Tube Ace
Paully, please tell me what did not work as advertised. Feel free to post any URLs or screenshots, emails, ICQ logs. As I recall, I gracefully helped you with numerous customizations none of which I was paid additionally or even asked for that matter.
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I don't want to be a dick here, but I have to put in my two cents as a witness to what went down. Paully was using TubeAce for a site that had almost no customization needs -- this is exceedingly rare, and should be a showcase for its ease of use.
He asked me, as an outsider who didn't know him at the time, to take a look at some of the issues he was having. When I looked under the hood, I found software that not only wasn't even object oriented (!!) at the time, but had some rudimentary coding errors made by inexperienced coders. Not trying to knock your software (I've held my tongue a LOT in the past about it, even asking you nicely if you had considered going object-oriented at one point instead of just bashing you). However, it's really sloppy work and I'd be embarrassed to charge for it, frankly.
I was engaged on the project during the times he was unable to reach you, and he showed me your answers, which were generally either misunderstanding the problem, or not offering a working solution.
As to Paully wanting something for nothing (you keep talking about how you only took the $200 original fee and no more), I have to tell you I spent 17.33 billable hours on the project ($5,200). He paid instantly, and SENT ME A FRIGGIN' PS3 and some games in the mail on top of it for taking him on as a client (I wasn't accepting new clients at the time). Class act, doesn't ever want something for nothing. Works hard, and expects his vendors to do the same.
I have no skin in this game, but I hate to see someone get dragged through the mud needlessly ... especially when it's a dude who is the exact opposite of the picture you're trying to paint.