Comments on: Are You After A Customized WP Theme?

By: Gobala Krishnan

Gobala Krishnan — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 09:03:48 +0000

Guys, if you don’t mind, I’m closing this thread on future comments. If you have some misunderstanding please resolve it between yourselves. Whatever comments to this point will be retained.

By: Kojak

Kojak — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 05:08:57 +0000

Mike if you give me that design then you wouldnt be hearing words like this from me! You didnt gave me anything i paid for 120$. You just gave me a jpeg file and not a psd! You put hours on a that simple jpeg file that i can even create better than that?

Nah im not jimm im just subscribe and i just seen that theres another unhappy customer of blogthememachine.

Im will not wasting my time anymore on you Scammer. I hope you just make good service and not scam any hardworking individual again

By: Mike Smith

Mike Smith — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 04:46:35 +0000

Kojak, this will be my last reply here and I honestly don’t really even want to write this out but I feel I need to.

Each of you paid for a service. Each of you hired me while on my website it clearly states the deposit is NOT refundable after the initial design sample is sent. You personally got two designs from me and I was working on a third when you proceeded to write me, screaming I was scamming you and how you wanted a refund. How I was not doing everything in my power to give you what you paid for is beyond me. I will not be giving you a refund after the hours put in on the work. I am sorry if you cannot understand that, but it just will not happen.

So, it’s safe to say you are “Jimm” too? nice timing being able to write a response here as soon as I comment on it. Again, this will be my last reply. If anyone has issues with anything I’ve said, or have questions for me, my email has not changed (staff) (at) (blogthememachine)

By: Kojak

Kojak — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 04:41:46 +0000

Put salt in your name? Then try to clean it by giving us a refund for a service we really didnt get anything. You only wasted our Time Mike (The Scammer) Smith

By: Mike Smith

Mike Smith — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 04:37:09 +0000

Hello Jimm,

I’d LOVE to see what site I am doing for you? I find it nice to see how you simply left that out, and since I actually have ZERO clients by the name of “Jimm” I’m assuming this is just another attempt from someone to try and put salt on my name.

By: jimm

jimm — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 20:49:37 +0000

Mike has scammed me too. I have started a project with him and have gotten nothing but excuses from him since he got my money.

Heres just some of them:

1) He “lost” connection to his IM clients (how often does that happen to you???)
2) All his sites went down (effectively losing all email communications)
3) Computer now has a virus and he can’t work
4) Sends me an email of the work he has done, THEN conveniently “forgets” to actually attach the files.
5) Tells me he will be around all weekend, then decides to go out of town for the weekend.

Mike Smith is completely unprofessional, and I would never recommend anyone works with FreeFall Creative, or any of his “companies”.

BEWARE of this guy.

By: Mike Smith | Blog Theme Machine | Wordpress Scammers | The University Kid

Sat, 08 Mar 2008 05:29:30 +0000

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By: Jug

Jug — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 09:45:51 +0000

Mike,

What I’m simply pointing out is that you have wasted my TIME (almost 3 months man…) and for that, I felt that I was scammed. I’m not complaining about the quality of your work here or whatever. Never really said that “Your work sucks so much and it’s not worth even $10.” or something like that — it was just I wasn’t satisfied and in my opinion, what I saw wasn’t worth MY money. So I decided to just get the PSDs from you and not get them coded. But did I get them AFTER I closed the PayPal dispute? No. You said you would send them once I remove the hold on your PayPal account. What happened? I waited for months (and even had to blog about it, post it on DP, comment here) just to get the PSDs. My issue with you is over though. I got the files, and that’s it. My mistake was hiring you, I guess.

From what I see, quite a number of your clients aren’t happy. And no, you can’t put us in a group (the DP people) and stereotype us as “this kind of clients”. People have different opinions and all, but can’t you see that we were not satisfied with your service? Maybe the “wrong thing” is with your service, not with the DP members who hired you.

So much of my time was wasted because of this, Mike. I e-mailed you about this BTW. Hope you got it. I do, however, wish your business to be prosperous — as long as you do your job properly (no scamming and other bad stuff). Don’t make commitments if you can’t actually do them.

- Jug

By: Ophelia Nicholson

Ophelia Nicholson — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 12:19:15 +0000

I do not also want this to be a screaming match and I don’t believe disputes should be held here as this is a blog and this is not the proper forum however this seems to be the only forum that mike will respond.. Yes I did curse at him but what he fails to mention is before I did that, one of his links had not theme in it and even when I spoke to mike he agreed he never delivered one and the other had significant problems and could not be used. Now after I filed the dispute, he asked that I close it and he would code two DIFFRENT psd, I said I only had ONE he told me to forward it to him. I did- I have not heard back from mike at all about completeing the work at which time I filed another paypal dispute, he then in his complaint to paypal told them he had delivered all the work and he doesn’t understand why I’m filing a dispute- THIS IS ONE DAY AFTER AGREEING TO CODE A NEW PSD.
So yes at this point- I did start calling him a scammer, a liar and started acting childish because at this point it was very apparent he had no intentions of delivering on his promise and simply wanted a dispute ended so he could walk away…
As I even explained to the paypal rep- its not about the money, its about the principal of the thing..I’d rather get the job done than the money but because it was a service- then paypal will side with him and I will get neither and that to me is very unfair if he himself in his very first line called me a good client so therefore I deserved to be treated as such

By: Kojak

Kojak — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 02:23:38 +0000

Kojak, In the beginning I took on your job and waived the final payment correct? I told you the down payment was all that I would charge because I wanted to do your website right? I’ve designed you two websites. the first was a bit too simple and plain for you, which I understood. I was told by you to make it more web 2.0 and add more rounded corners and things of that nature. I went back, designed a new layout and did just that. This still was not good enough. I am sorry we couldn’t work anything out, but I’ve tried to design everything I could for you. I also ask that the messages of “f***ing as***le” and “I’m going to sue your ass” stop. If you’re going to do it, please don’t contact me until papers are drawn up and you can actually find a lawyer who will give you the time of day for your claims.

I cant understand your point there mike. You said before i pay you that you will show me first the graphic design after a day then let me think if theres a revision needed. So i take a look at the first design and completely disagree with the outcome so i told you to make it more professional coz i can design that kind by myself. And after 5 days! You give me another design which is this one http://7wd.org/50dmv_design2.jpg and which is the a very simple design again and the design is not related to the site im building and the features i told you what to do before we made a deal. And you just gave me that f***ing (edited by admin) jpeg file and not a psd and coded template for joomla.

Do you think i deserve that jpeg design for my 120$?? No!

We’re not suing you anymore coz we dont want to waste our time for a kind of people like you. Reputation is more important than money so we are just spreading the word that you Mike Smith is a big time scammer!

And if you are not really a scammer. Why all your account at digitalpoint forums are banned?
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/member.php?u=106723
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/member.php?u=126754

And you are starting to scam more people using this account??
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/member.php?u=124627

And see these threads complaing that you scammed them!
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=722547
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=724696&highlight=blogthememachine
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=722547&highlight=blogthememachine
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=690239&highlight=blogthememachine

Now explained again why you didnt gave me what we just talked about before paying you. Which is a good design and code it as a joomla template! And just give me this s***id jpeg file!