New scammer alert........xxxdvdbuy
 

I already know what you are all going to say after reading this like why I didn?t get 50% upfront, ecc?? but one can only learn from ones mistakes.
Long story short, XXXDVDBUY posts on this forum he?s looking for someone to write reviews for his DVD site for seo purposes, he tells me he does not need a fast turnaround and we agree on 1.50 per review so I wrote 5 of them and because I got sick I didn?t log on to the site for a few days and he banned my account thinking I was a deadbeat, after telling him I couldn?t even get out of bed for 4 days I had to make a new account to write the reviews and continued writing them.
After about 2-3 months and 100 reviews later I tell him he can start to send me my money as I wanted to be paid for each 100 reviews, he told me he could send me a check or do a money transfer to my bank account, I preferred check.
The address I gave him is a valid military po box address as my father is retired air force and is considered STATESIDE shipping and needs to be absolutely shipped using the regular USPS post office and not a private courier like fedex,dhl,ecc, what does he do? He ships it through private courier and it comes back to him and tells me it?s an airport address and I have to explain again why it needs to be shipped using USPS. He told me he sent it off correctly on the 17th of February and seeing as a letter does not take more than 10 days to get here I sent him an email after 21 days and have not received a response, there were other reviews that I was writing and now I can?t even log in to the account on his stupid website. So now he has his reviews and I?m out 150 dollars.
Let this be a warning to fatfoo and jfalcon who write reviews and blog posts, do not work with XXXDVDBUY BECAUSE YOU WILL NEVER GET PAID.

150 dollars? i wipe my ass with more than that.

well we are not all swimming in money like yourself...........so can I have a roll of your toilet paper?

Thats sucks man. :(

yes it does....

Don't give up. I'd write him a few more times before I'd call it quits.

well he doesn't really answer them so it would be hard.

xxxdvdbuy always seemed like a complete retard and failure, I can't believe you were dumb enough to do business with a complete retard.

haha moron.

well I didn't know before hand.....if I would have known I would have refused.

You could have just searched around this board. Most people getting scammed on here aren't doing the proper due diligence to prevent it and that's a fact.

that is true and you are right, even afte rall this happened i searched around and no one had been scammed by him, so I didn't really worry about it.

bump, the people must know.

That's fucked up...

1.50 per review wow nice price :)

Sorry you got burned.

he sounds like a complete loser - sorry you got ripped

yeah basically working for peanuts

Yup, totally agreed. I exchanged a few emails with him and it was not hard to tell that he was either full of shit or a complete moron. Sorry you lost out, but you should have been more careful, especially with someone who is basically unknown around here.

If he is using your reviews on his website, send a DMCA to google and his hosting provider:

http://www.google.com/dmca.html

When you work for peanuts you usually atract those types of "clients"

PS: Please don't mention fatfoo and me in the same sentence. :)

Sorry to hear it, but you are right. Lesson learned.

Just check out one of his first threads:http://www.gfy.com/sell-and-buy-forum/940568-reviews-written.html

If that isn't a major danger sign I don't know what is.

That idiot just sent me an email with threats and insults. Guess he doesn't like this kind of thing getting out, so I'll just give this a bump.

Wow payout in porn DVDs, thats a funny offer :1orglaugh.

Bump! :)

:upsidedow:upsidedow give it to me to wipe your ass

HE did????? what did it say in the email and what was the email address? how are you sure its the right guy?

Of course it's him

[email protected]

All he said in the email is "your a scammer" even spelled "you're" wrong.

He is obviously pissed about the thread so I am going to try my best to keep it up here.

yeah thats the email addy, i have no problem keeping this thread alive till i get my money and an explaination, he is registered here so its no problem for him to reply.....unless he was banned for some reason.

He's not banned. I bet he's reading the board not logged in though.


Last Activity: 02-07-2010 10:26 PM

Here is to hoping he does get banned.

lol, i sent him another 3 emails over the last 4 days and he never answered me, he is definatly a scumbag and a liar and i hope he fails at what it is he does.
and you know that he knows he's wrong or else he would have posted something already, but he didn't and he is aware of this thread, so you know 100% that he fucked me over.

Most peeps that talk a big game, HAVE NO GAME.

bump for you man to get hard work paid

Must feel nice to laugh at other people's problems.

thank you....

This is the whack job that cried to Eric to have me banned.

http://www.gfy.com/16694152-post77.html

It looks like maybe I'll have to send old Eric an email to return the favor.

damn that sucks, i feel bad for myself not checking all this before hand......

Just out of curiosity, why didn't you at least have an epass or paypal account for him to send the money to? It appears as though at one time he had intention of paying you, but after the first one got returned he probably didn't want to bother with the hassle anymore.

It's the principle, not the amount.

You're the retard for using that saying and not realizing how dumb it sounds.

but he "claimed" it was sent the first time.

i have paypal and epass of a friend and he refused both and only wanted to do bankwire but i convinced him for a check because bankwire costs me alot for the transfer.

Ah, so we don't really even know if he sent it the first time or it was just a made up excuse by him. Him not accepting paypal or epass is definitely a red flag.

He is responding to my emails, so he is obviously ignoring you.

He just sent me that.

One of you is clearly lying.

that piece of SH$%, here is the transcript from the emails.

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----- Original Message -----
From: carl portnoy
To: [email protected]
Sent: Saturday, October 24, 2009 2:07 PM
Subject: RE: your search for a reviewer

oh ok i understand, so bascially it would be something like:

as far as payment I read on GFY it was 2 dollars, I wouldn't be asking that much but would 1.50 be stretching it to far and is there any wiggle room at all???

as far as transferring funds would paypal be acceptable?

let me know as it does sound interesting.

carl magno
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his reply:

From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: your search for a reviewer
Date: Sat, 24 Oct 2009 15:55:28 -0400

I can pay $1.50 yes, anything more then this and I have to go with J Falcon which is best in the business and at $2 I would be paying more then I want for something that I could do myself if I had the time. So if you want this job for $1.50 per review then you seem to know what I'm looking for and can do it.

I am not looking for a fast turnaround time because I want them done right. Your example shows that you know what I need and yes it needs to be at least 150 words give or take 2-5 is not a big deal such as long as the review describes the dvd title as much as possible.

Once you sign in and click the title you want just click the "Write Review" button and then do that for each one.

If you wish to start you may.. How I will pay will have to be bank wire, I don't have paypal or epassporte.

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so where does it say i didn't want paypal and epass? NOWHERE! i asked him and he told me as highlighted that he does not have epassport or paypal.

as for the airport address he is talking about, my father who lives with me is RETIRED US AIR FORCE and married and italian woman and stayed in italy where he still is now and i live here also. the address i gave him is a BONAFIED address and i have recieved everything from magazines, books, dvd's, shirts and anything you can possibly mail and there was no problem, but there is only one thing, anything that is mailed to this address needs to be mailed through the REGULAR USPS POST OFFICE and not a courier like UPS-FEDEX-DHL because the way it works is that all mail goes to an airport in new york then they see the address and it gets fowarded to my fathers post office box in italy, the reason i gave him that address because it takes 5-10 days and you pay as if it was stateside mail, if you send it to my italian street address it takes almost 30 days and costs more.....now what do you think i insisted on?? the american address and i stated 10 times that it needs to be sent through the post office and not a private courier and he did the opposite and sent it through a private courier and it came back to him, so i explained to him in GRAVE DETAIL that it needed to be sent through the regular post office and just to be on the safe side if it came back to him i gave him my italian street address, i'm not hiding anything or hiding my identity.....i mean shit i'll post my address here right now i'm not scared.

as for the broken english, i admit being italian my english is not 100% perfect as i write real fast and alot of times i don't capitalize the i's and write "i" instead of "I" but i made sure that all his reviews were 100% perfect and corrected.....you can go read them if you don't believe me.

so i'm not lying, i don't lie and i have email transcripts of everything we talked about.
and he's not going to pay me?? what an asshat, i hope that everyone here realises what a douchebag this guy is and do not work with him.

Why not just give him your own address, sounds like you made things much more complicated than they need to be.

i gave him my personal street address.....
it sounds complicated but i guarantee you its not.

bump for this evening.

another bump.

bla bla bla..

you just wish you are that 150 dollars.

lol? and another bump