A week ago, I contracted CajunTechie (Anthony Papillion ) to create an xhtml template for me, I prepaid 225 BTC, and as yet, a week later, he has not shown me a single piece of evidence that he has worked on or completed anything. However, he stated that if I terminate the contract he would 'bill me for work done'.
Now admittedly, he stated that he has some very important personal issues, however, that should not have stopped him from either completing the work within a reasonable time, or sending my money back and telling me to get a different vendor.
Now, as he stated he would bill for work done and refund the rest, that then implies that I would have already seen evidence of work completed, but as I have NOT, I must assume that he would quickly wipe off something and state, "SEE, I did this" and bill me for nothing. I have received no BTC back.
So I have no choice, but to place (Anthony) CajunTechie on the scammers list.
I wanted to take the time to respond to this post before I went to bed because River is attacking my reputation without giving telling the community the entire story. Here's the story:
On Friday I spoke with River via a Skype text chat where he detailed his need for an xHTML compliant redesign of his site (
www.thefiatfreezone.com). After reviewing his requirements and getting a few things cleared up by him, we agreed on a price and the terms of the work. I indicated that I would begin work immediately and Rive quickly paid me half of the full price I asked for the work. River and I spoke around 5:00pm CT on Friday.
I spent the weekend reviewing his site structure to make sure I understood what he was doing, River wanted a complete site redesign that was still xHTML compliant. On Tuesday, I received an email from River stating that he wanted to terminate the contract and report me as a scammer here because I hadn't done the work. Keep in mind, we talked on Friday at 5:00pm and this email came on Tuesday near 3:00pm for a COMPLETE SITE REDESIGN.
After some discussion with River (through email and Skype, both which I have logs of and would be happy to provide to the community as evidence if requested) it was decided that he would not cancel the contract and we would continue work as we agreed. I also explained to River that I was dealing with a terminally ill family member which I felt effected the speed at which work could be done. He stated he understood and we even had, what I thought, was a nice phone conversation.
So, I continued to work on the site as we agreed and today I asked River if he could do a Skype call at 6:30pm CT to which the only response I received was 'your time or mine'. A few hours later, I received a 'CONTRAcT TERMINATED' email and then came here to find this post by River listing me as a scammer.
So the bottom line is this: River is not a web designer and obviously has no idea the work it takes to do a complete web design. That's evidenced by him thinking an entire site redesign could be done in what amounts to two days (spare the weekend). Additionally, River is so impatient and so scared of getting 'scammed' that he's much too quick to label people who are trying to help him (at a much lower rate than usual, I might add) as scammers. As to his 'not seeing the refund that was promised', I can only say that River is lying. He is well aware that when we spoke on Tuesday evening it was decided that there WOULD BE no refund (why would I continue to work on a project I was going to stop and refund money on?) And as far as his demand for a refund after terminating the contract tonight, I'm sure someone not responding in 3-4 hours off of business hours is hardly evidence of that person being a scammer.
I am not a scammer and I am offended that River has chosen to only present one side of the story AND outright lie about agreements. He says he has an email where I tell him I will issue him a refund. I have the entire thread and Skype chat that went on AFTER that email where he said 'ok, I'm sorry for jumping the gun, let's continue work'. Did River think I would do a refund and then perform the rest of the work for free? Is that how HE does business? I think we all know better than that. The bottom line is River is sensitive about being scammed (he said in our phone conversation it had happened to him before, so I understand it) and jumped the gun several times - especially with posting to this board.
Will River receive a refund? Absolutely. However, I will deduct the cost of the work already done and refund the rest. I'm also going to formally request that River either remove this post calling me a scammer from this board or post proof where I 'promised a refund' and didn't deliver -- but post the ENTIRE conversation.
Thank you for hearing my side, community, and I hope for a quick and fast resolution between River and myself. I also hope he learns a bit of patience and not to be so aggressively paranoid or else the chances of his site actually getting done by ANYONE are slim to none. I know I will never consider working with him again even if this is resolved.
Thank You,
Anthony Papillion (CajunTechie)