Pulling the plug on a website
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- omg0
- pango0
anyone took screen shot?
too late to the party :(
- ETM0
I am sure the truth lies somewhere in the middle, but it appears like a defamation lawsuit may be fully justifiable, if SF Fitness wanted to pursue it.
- It'd be pretty much a waste of time and money, since neither party is in the same jurisdiction or continent.Continuity
- omg0
With just HTML and CSS, anyone can be a hacker these days!
- monospaced0
They respond on their FB page:
"On Wednesday evening, our domain name Fitness SF was hacked and stolen by an individual named Frank Jonen. Frank was hired on May 16th, 2012 to develop a functional website for our brand. A $5,000 payment was made to him on the same date. In his proposal, he stated that the website would take 10 weeks to complete. He missed numerous deadlines including our brand launch in September. In December, he voluntarily passed the incomplete and non functioning website to our new design firm.
Now, Frank is attempting to portray himself as the victim when truly the victim is Fitness SF as he attempts to get paid for work he did not complete and has decided that blackmail is the way to accomplish that.
Fitness SF"- ETM, you were right.monospaced
- More than one side to the story. The comments on the page are hilarious too. I can't believe SFFitness is responding.monospaced
- And somewhere in the middle lies the truth.ETM
- GeorgesII0
Miko, so u lift?
- ok_not_ok0
- fucking facebook links - it's like a whole chunk of the internet, rendered invisible to me. cunts.detritus
- you're not missing shitmonospaced
- link doesn't even fucking work. Just fails silently fuck Facebookanimatedgif
- elahon0
It's back up.
- animatedgif0
"dozens of hours combining lighting and material properties on calibrated display and expensive Norm Light setups to get the f'king Pantone color to match in-render"
Why bother? It just looks like a bunch of layer effects in the end anyway. May as well have done it in Illustrator instead of trying to "match" a render to a pantone.
Can't help but think maybe he misunderstood what sort of client this was (shit out and move on job surely) and instead he's trying to charge them a shitload for the time he's spend wanking off in 3D apps and the costs spiralled out of control which whoever was in charge of it at SF didn't want to deal with.
- BusterBoy0
Designer = naive
Customer = asshatMature move would have been to just take the site down completely. Savvy move would have been to stop work LONG before it got to this stage.
- ukit20
There are a couple levels of incompetence here:
-Designer works for half a year on a project without demanding deposit or milestone payments
-Company blows off designer who also has control over site hosting
- omg0
- dbloc0
I approve.
- ukit20
They should have left it at taking down the site. Trashing the company directly to their customers is dumb and unprofessional. And opens up legal action from the company.
- dMullins0
There were a few elements of copy that really worked. They should have just left it at, "This is why companies are forced out of business." The personal attacks were weak.
- omg0
- Llyod0
yelp review:
"No one really seemed to take "working out" seriously. It was more like a bath house. Beware of the locker rooms."This guy is in Europe, he's not getting sued.
- bulletfactory0
As previously stated multiple times, he should have taken down the site, with a short message about failure pay... BUT added a PayPal button below the message which allows the company to pay in full, but adds 15% late fee to the bill.
- uuuuuu0
reminds me of this story since we are talking about unpaid services and legalities and this is related .... I read a news article about a woman who hired a moving company for about $900 to move all her stuff including her children's stuff to a new place but for some reason was unable to pay the rest of the amount on delivery. So the moving company took all her stuff out of the house and locked it up in a wharehouse somewhere and sent an invoice for almost double for late fees and additional expenses. She wound up going without her furniture or clothes or anything for a like a month or something. Anyway she took them to court herself and was awarded 25k in damages and the company's owner was charged with extortion. His defense was basically "I run a business." Didn't work.