Ok, here's the deal. I want your opinions on it please. I was selling a script for about the same amount of money that I was buying a website for. In order to avoid paypal fees, I had the guy I was selling to send money directly the the guy I was buying from. At the time, this seemed like a bad idea. Recently, I got contacted by the guy I bought the site from telling me that there was a paypal chargeback on the payment. I immediately offered to give his site back, but he said that he didn't want his site back, he wanted payment. Now, however, all admin passwords to the site have been changed and the google adsense ID has been reverted to what it used to be when he owned the site... I shot him a message and this was the reply: But, he still wants me to pay him the money that was "supposedly" recalled. Do I still owe him $3000 even if he admitted to RECLAIMING the site?
If he reclaimed the site, I wouldn't pay him. Simple as that. If he wants to go through the hassle of suing you, the court is NOT going to like the fact that he illegally accessed a site that was in your possession and essentially stole it back. There is a due process for handling disputes and he obviously felt the need to take it into his own hands. I can't say I blame him, being stiffed for $3,000 is no light matter. Not only that, but what is he going to claim you owe him $3,000 for if you no longer have the site? Or am I missing something here?
No, you are not missing anything. At first, it seemed completely reasonable that he wanted his money back. Now, however, giving his money back and him having the site would result in me being stiffed for $3000. It seems like either I pay, or I give back the site. And he has TAKEN back the site, so he chose that option. That's my viewpoint. ------ By the way, in my previous message i said I meant to say
knine143 You need to tell the whole story here. Come on Knine143 you purchased our site, then you stiff us for 3k, what do you expect, to have all your money back and the site? Come on people here at DP are smarter then that. We took all the steps neccesary to get our site back. So until the 3k is paid, its held by Mike. You purchased the site from our company, and had it for a few weeks, then you recalled the money saying it was an invalid charge in your paypal, my lawyer and I called ipower.com and advised them of the issue, ipower.com stated they due to the evidence they would give us control of the site, until the details are worked out, and we advised you of this. You now know our intellectual property, and most likely have downloaded all our files, and you even made money off Google adsense from the site. You will get the site back once we get our money, again as we advised you. As of right now, you have all your money back through paypal they reversed the charge. Did you really think you would get your money back, and the site? Everyone here on DP is smarter then that, and can smell a fraud like you coming from a mile away now. I hope you don’t pull any of this on anyone here on DP. Make this right knine143 and regain your rep here. It's very simple, pay the amount you owe for the site and you will get control, again very simple.