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Gather round, kiddies, and let me regale you with the tale of someone so gloriously stupid, its amazing.
So this story begins a few months ago, where someone purchases a premade website template off my site, with a rush order. Shortly after the whole thing is done, I get a notice from Paypal that the customer has opened a dispute. I promptly fought it, and win in under a couple of hours. (Yay, documentation!)
I then notify customer that he is now on his final warning, and that any further shenanigans will result in his license being revoked. He apologizes, and tells me he won't do this EVER again, it was an accident, he meant to dispute a totally different transaction.
...Pull the other one, bro.
So, things move smoothly for a few months, and then he contacts me again, asking for permission to move his license to a new domain. I grant permission, as long as he first emails me the old domain, the new one, and does not use it in two places at once, blah blah. He consents, and then orders a new header image made for the site. Since it's a really, REALLY small change that takes me maybe a minute or two to do, I only charged him $2, and sent over the invoice.
He tells me he is sending the payment now, and I looked at the invoice to confirm that he was, in fact, logged in and making a payment. I send him over the image, and as SOON as he gets it, he promptly stops at the last checkout step, logs out of IM, and tries to disappear.
Ohhhh, no you don't.
I send him an email detailing exactly what I'm going to do with him if he doesn't pay up, and noting that this would be the final strike against him. He had five minutes to pay up, while I was writing the draft letter to his hosting company to have the template stripped.
Lo and behold, he logs back on IM, freaking out. "Chill out, its only $2, you could be nice, you know!" He paid, freaking out at me the ENTIRE TIME, about how its only $2, its only a couple of bucks, I should've just let him slide.
Well, fast forward to today. I get a notice that he reported the $2 as a fraudulent charge directly to his bank, he went in and filed paperwork over this. So, Paypal just automatically gives it back.
Welp, as I warned him, I sent out the notice to his hosting company, they replied that they have to give him 12 hours to comply with THEIR notice, but that it'll be stripped immediately at the expiration of that time, as they don't think he'll comply.
But I didn't stop there.
I went onto a secret facebook group where the affiliates and advertisers for his type of website gather, and promptly told ALL OF HIS ADVERTISERS what he'd done. Surprise surprise, three people spoke up, saying "omg, he did the SAME THING TO ME". Turns out, those people he scammed are heavy hitters in the industry, they just had originally written it off as "meh, small amount", but now its out that he's doing it to multiple people.
His advertisers are now pulling everything, and he's being banned from all the networks they can contact.
So I wonder if this will be worth it to him. For $2, he just lost the money he spent on the license ($100), and he is losing his sources of income (the advertisers). He won't be able to show his face in the industry after this for a year or two, if he even manages to come back at ALL.
So this story begins a few months ago, where someone purchases a premade website template off my site, with a rush order. Shortly after the whole thing is done, I get a notice from Paypal that the customer has opened a dispute. I promptly fought it, and win in under a couple of hours. (Yay, documentation!)
I then notify customer that he is now on his final warning, and that any further shenanigans will result in his license being revoked. He apologizes, and tells me he won't do this EVER again, it was an accident, he meant to dispute a totally different transaction.
...Pull the other one, bro.
So, things move smoothly for a few months, and then he contacts me again, asking for permission to move his license to a new domain. I grant permission, as long as he first emails me the old domain, the new one, and does not use it in two places at once, blah blah. He consents, and then orders a new header image made for the site. Since it's a really, REALLY small change that takes me maybe a minute or two to do, I only charged him $2, and sent over the invoice.
He tells me he is sending the payment now, and I looked at the invoice to confirm that he was, in fact, logged in and making a payment. I send him over the image, and as SOON as he gets it, he promptly stops at the last checkout step, logs out of IM, and tries to disappear.
Ohhhh, no you don't.
I send him an email detailing exactly what I'm going to do with him if he doesn't pay up, and noting that this would be the final strike against him. He had five minutes to pay up, while I was writing the draft letter to his hosting company to have the template stripped.
Lo and behold, he logs back on IM, freaking out. "Chill out, its only $2, you could be nice, you know!" He paid, freaking out at me the ENTIRE TIME, about how its only $2, its only a couple of bucks, I should've just let him slide.
Well, fast forward to today. I get a notice that he reported the $2 as a fraudulent charge directly to his bank, he went in and filed paperwork over this. So, Paypal just automatically gives it back.
Welp, as I warned him, I sent out the notice to his hosting company, they replied that they have to give him 12 hours to comply with THEIR notice, but that it'll be stripped immediately at the expiration of that time, as they don't think he'll comply.
But I didn't stop there.
I went onto a secret facebook group where the affiliates and advertisers for his type of website gather, and promptly told ALL OF HIS ADVERTISERS what he'd done. Surprise surprise, three people spoke up, saying "omg, he did the SAME THING TO ME". Turns out, those people he scammed are heavy hitters in the industry, they just had originally written it off as "meh, small amount", but now its out that he's doing it to multiple people.
His advertisers are now pulling everything, and he's being banned from all the networks they can contact.
So I wonder if this will be worth it to him. For $2, he just lost the money he spent on the license ($100), and he is losing his sources of income (the advertisers). He won't be able to show his face in the industry after this for a year or two, if he even manages to come back at ALL.
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