Pulling the plug on a website
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- mikotondria30
If you don't pay your electricity bill, they cut it off, and eventually they damage your credit, same with gas, or water.
If you don't pay your mortgage, they send round big men who surprisingly have well paid employment with their agents despite a list of criminal convictions for violence, and they drag you from your favorite chair and throw you into the street. If you defend yourself, the police arrest you and shoot your dog, and take you kids into care. The bank takes you house and sells it for more than you borrowed against it, and it keeps all the money you'd paid them on the loan, and even if they sell the house for less than you'd borrowed, they bill you for the difference. Again, at any point if you use similar force to defend yourself, you are taken to jail and or prison, where you will be raped and killed.
I hardly think that a few shitty comments along with depriving you of the use of something for which you've not paid can be considered unfair, inappropriate or unjust in this case, especially as the creditor is a small business owner, to whom any of the above state-sanctioned violence might now be increasingly likely.- None of the examples you give are intended to embarrass you personally or professionally.nb
- Instead of whining like a little bitch, this guy should have just put a polite "this site has been removed due to lack of payment" or whatever.nb
- ...payment." If that doesn't work, call a lawyer.nb
- Or, just call a collection agency. Lose 30%, get most of what you're owed.nb
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- omg0
- 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.
- 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.
- dbloc0
I approve.
- omg0
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- elahon0
It's back up.
- 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
- GeorgesII0
Miko, so u lift?
- 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
- omg0
With just HTML and CSS, anyone can be a hacker these days!
- 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
- pango0
anyone took screen shot?
too late to the party :(