Quote from: Rarity on October 10, 2012, 09:44:12 PM

I did not ask for a favor, I had a written agreement as documented in the very first post of this thread.

Are you referring to...

Quote from: Rarity on October 09, 2012, 02:19:33 AM

Quote from: dank on October 09, 2012, 02:13:53 AM

http://soundcloud.com/dankm/untitled-101
http://soundcloud.com/dankm/untitled-102

These are pretty good, though a little derivative of Dank Untitled 64 and Dank Untitled 75 which are my favorites. While you are recording could you take a moment to record Mary Had A Little Lamb for my niece? She is heading home tomorrow and I won't see her again until December.

http://www.music-for-music-teachers.com/mary-had-a-little-lamb-guitar.html

...as the written agreement? Unfortunately, that is not what you think it is. You're asking if he could, not if he will. There is a difference, which is why I made the original note that you were asking for a favor, and not formally agreeing to a service. Not only that, but I see absolutely NO mention that Dank agreed to perform the specified tab. I see the quote where he mentioned that if you listened to what he played you'd have to stop posting stuff or whatever, but there's no detail.

Rarity, you HAVE to understand that there needs to be quoted proof of an ACTUAL agreement. This would entail that you say "I would like for you to do this for me", and he would say "Why yes, I will do this for you by [specified date]". THAT is the most basic verbal (written in this case) contract you can have.

Quote from: Rarity on October 10, 2012, 09:44:12 PM

I was not "satisfied" because the agreed upon product was not delivered and was falsely represented as genuine in an attempt to get me to comply with our agreement. This is a scam by the most basic of definitions.

Ah, I see. Well since that's the case, let me enlighten you a bit. The most basic definition of scam is "to defraud; swindle". You also seem to be lacking the basic knowledge of "defraud; swindle" so I look the liberty of looking it up for you:

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de·fraud (d-frôd)
tr.v. de·fraud·ed, de·fraud·ing, de·frauds
To take something from by fraud; swindle

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swin·dle (swndl)
v. swin·dled, swin·dling, swin·dles
v.tr.
1. To cheat or defraud of money or property.
2. To obtain by fraudulent means: swindled money from the company.
v.intr.
To practice fraud as a means of obtaining money or property.
n.
The act or an instance of swindling.

As nothing was taken from you, this is not a scam. You're right in saying this is an easy open-shut case. There is no scam.

Quote from: Rarity on October 10, 2012, 09:44:12 PM

The monetary gain for Dank in this scam was to silence a vocal critic of his business practices and the monetary value of recorded music is well established.

This is just an opinionated statement and absolutely not possible to prove in under the best of circumstances.