Ok.. Recently i opened this thread "WTH Quality Web Designer (Urgent)" for my latest project. And a guy named Mike Smith which is the owner of blogthememachine.com and freefallcreative IM me at YM. Ok to understand this more i will paste the thread i created at scam.com forums. heres the link "blogthememachine scammer" i will quote the story here Please beware to this scammer!
Feel sorry for what happened to you buddy. Today someone tricked me,too. In my case,i'm not loosing money (actually it's the same as loosing money).Someone asked me to create 3 logos.When i'm finished with the logos,i told this person that i'm finished.And the person asked me to email the logos and my paypal email account.The person said that he / she wanted to transfer the money.So,i sent my work and my paypal info the the payment. Until now i haven't recieve any money from that person Yea..that person really pissed me off...
sorrry for all of u guyz. what i think is best way to trust a person is his iTRADER... Betterr Luck Next Time everybody
Write the guy back and tell him you will create a new website that tells all about how he scams people. If it gets ranked high in Google, he will lose more money than just a few $120 here and there. Reputation is worth more than $120.
Did you have him post his offer in the thread so that you could work within the itrader system? What's his itrader and did you give him a negative itrader?
Thanks but i think im just need to move on right now. I hope this is a warn for everyone even if his site service looks legit he still doing some shady stuffs there and that is to scam people. There are few people who PM'ed me that they been scammed also by this person.. Maybe we can talk about it sometimes to take revenge to this guy. His username before is this http://forums.digitalpoint.com/member.php?u=106723 and banned now. He has 27 itrader points.
I hope ive seen this post http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=690239&highlight=blogthememachine earlier..
Nevermind to what I said. If you google Blogthememachine.com or Blogthememachine, this thread is 2nd.
Man... I was scammed by this guy too! I've had an experience VERY similar to you. I ordered a WordPress theme from him last December 8, 2007 because his portfolio looked good. We agreed on a certain price (can't really remember, it was $200+) and he asked me to send a down payment of $150. I did pay $150 via PayPal and received 2 unprofessional designs from him! Not only were the designs unprofessional, it took him SO long to create them! I was annoyed, so I opened a PayPal dispute as well. He also asked me to close the dispute and stupid me, I did because I thought he will do the changes that he said he would. Now he's not even replying to my IMs and e-mails. Darn it... Here's his message over at PayPal: Here are the designs that he came up with: http://img110.imageshack.us/img110/9692/design1wt5.gif http://img529.imageshack.us/img529/7206/design2df3.jpg No, he did not send me the PSDs as he stated in his reply. The images above were sent to me as previews, so they're just JPG files. I do NOT have the PSDs that he promised. The designs are totally not good, if you ask me! I'm no designer but I think I can come up with something like what he did... Basically all he did was put gradients all over! I even got a MUCH MUCH better design for only $50. Is there any action that we can take to get our money back from this guy?
I got the PSD files from him just now, after sending him like 10+ e-mails and numerous IMs. I don't know if I should be happy, but at least I got the PSDs... though I'm not that satisfied with the designs. I think I have to sell these; I don't have any use for them anymore. I still feel "scammed" because I waited so long for the designs. I wasn't able to follow the redesign schedule for my blog because of this.
For me he is still not responding at my mail and IM.. Shameful scammer Mike Smith of blogthememachine and freefallcreative i hope this thread will rank at SE for his main keywords..