I gave a job to a member that produced very substandard work so they weren't paid. The member left me a negative iTrader and is sending me repeated offensive emails (blocked now) saying she is going to kill my children etc. In the thread (which is partially cleaned up she posted screenshots revealing my email address which has to break a number of privacy laws including some of DP's own rules (if it isn't a rule it should be). I love DP but this experience has left a very bad taste in mouth. I have 77 positive iTraders wherte I was the buyer in all but a few bad eggs spoil the lot.
The best thing you can do is leave negative Itrader and negative Reputation in return if he is saying offensive/Assaulting Words against you click the '' in the Corner of the Pm's and posts that are offending and let a moderator take action against the user if needed.
I understand your feeling as well as I can understand him too. He feels scammed, of course he gets furious. You could have paid him some just to show your good intentions even though the work wasn't done well enough.
Most folks worth paying attention to can decipher the root of one bad itrader. I would not sweat it really. I have done hundreds of jobs for people here. The only reason I have an itrader at all is because a few people insist on trading them. The only time I ever have issues with folks is if I buy something to try and save a bit of time. Folks who charge virtually nothing for work will ultimately do something idiotic. Unfortunately, "you get what you pay for" comes in many shapes and sizes. You are fine. I have actually seen a few of your threads about this. You were clearly not provided with a working solution. I get newsletters from folks all the time and they render ok. What you are asking for is not rocket science. Threatening people is about as adolescent as it gets. Don't let um take you alive lol... Nigel
I have issues with people posting my personal contact details in a public thread. I considered paying the member for their time but I was clear that I was paying for a job and the job provided wasn't acceptable. By paying I was just enccuraging poor workmanship. In my other negative iTrader the guy has now posted our private message communications: http://forums.digitalpoint.com/itrader_detail.php?ir=444889&u=252346 Some people think they can pass off any old crap on DP and I just won't stand for it.
I thought the thread was getting cleaned but it's back in its orioginal glory: http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=1527565
How ironic that she threatens to kill your children yet her username is "Cheweysmom". Looks like she is someone's mother, I feel sorry for the poor kid.
Heh, really not all that concerned but from what I gather there is some chick with a mouth like a sailor who admittedly has two accounts on DP. Not much else to say really. Nigel
You buy a lot of services. Bound to have some bad product and dissatisfaction along the way. And you have done a lot of business for a relatively new person, so I would expect that the more you do the more chances you are going to have to run into inferior work. There are a lot of amateurs around. What were you buying anyway? I am sure that many of us here would have liked the business, I know I would have.
The offending material was removed so a big thank you to DP mods for that. I didn't see any rules against posting such things but common sense says it isn't allowed. Various stuff. Lots of reviews, some coding, website design, graphic design etc. This particular job was a newsletter redesign. I had an awesome newsletter template done by another DP member, really nice work - but it didn't display in most email programs. So it needed to be redesigned in a tabled layout. We got their eventually but it still doesn't display in Outlook and Eudora so the DP member is going to attack it once again. Yes, there is lots of crap offered here but also many awesome designers and coder etc. To be honest avoiding such situations is easily worth the $30 this member was charging but I just couldn't as a matter of principle. Same deal with this other blogger who posted the same illiterate article on hos 6 sites that weren't blogs at all. The work wasn't acceptable, I wasn't going to pay for an obvious scam (post being removed within days and not archived anywhere). I just need to be more careful when selected such things.
Stuff happens mate, just look forward and move on. There's nothing you or anyone can do about it other than rant. I know Shawn CAN remove the iTrader, but then again, if you do it for one person, you have to do it for everybody else and the mods nor Shawn have that kind of time.
If the message was a private message, report it to the mods, and we will handle it accordingly. If it was outside of the forum, then it is your business alone. We will not interfere with your private affairs.
It was email as the removed screenshots showed. The mods did their job and removed offending content and cleaned up the thread. I don't expect anymore than that. Thank you for your help and letting me vent a bit.
Just report the posts and leave an -Itrader for him. Use the edit button. I thought premium membership would weed out the crap? Do premium members still have to follow the rules? (2 double post in the one thread) Thanks Brian
Well, there's always some rotten apples everywhere. Just drop negative trader and move on. Simply not worth your time.