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October 31, 2006
vbpatrons.com 3
The reason for this page is to expose to the world that Steven of vbpatronds.com is a liar. His site and his skills as a vb coder are a joke.
The reason for this site is to stop more people like myself from getting robbed by hacks like Steven and Lissa.
Here is my story:
I wanted a great forum. So, I got what I believe is the best software on the planet, Vbulletin, from www.vbulletin.com. The software is made by Jelsoft Enterprises ltd. I pay Jelsoft to install this new software. But then I need to make it look great. Jelsoft does not do any type of custom work. I quickly find www.vbulletin.org which opens my eyes to all the wonderful things I could do with the software. So, of course, I start my wish list. Now it's time to find someone to work on my site. This is no easy task at all. I find a few guys who helped me a bit and for a reasonable price. But their skill level was not that great. I soon find a guy called Truedeath who help me a great deal. This is when things go bad. Truedeath has a lot on his plate and no longer has time for my site. But, he had about 80% of my list done. 80% of the work done great. I can live with the site the way it is done, I thought.
A few weeks go by, and that 20% is on my mind. So I pm Truedeath and ask him if he has the time. He explains to me that he does not. So, here I go, back to www.vbulletin.org the place that I found the coder that helped me so much.
Let The Good Time Roll
I should have been happy with site the way Truedeath left it. But, nooo. I had to have the best sit on-line.
Well, I made a nice new list. I was so happy that 3.6.2 came out, yet I still did not understand what the big deal was. All I knew was this was the latest and greatest, so I must have it. Plus it was going to be the only one that jelsoft would now support.
This waste of space, Steven M, contacts me by pm claiming he could do all the stuff on my list. This made me very happy. I saw a few of his posts and some of the hacks he made. His site was well but together. Plus, they let me see all that they were doing for my site.
Sounds good so far.
Well that was as nice as it got. Once we agreed on the price and I made a deposit things when to hell. All the work that truedeath did was deleted. 80% of the old list ...gone. WTF. So now I pm him and told him that he removed all the work that was done. Are you going to put it back? “we will take care of it when we upgrade to 3.6.2” Ok Steven, you do that, Steven you do know all my members can see the bugs that are taking place. Why did you not do this on the test site. “do not worry we will have all that taking care of tonight".
The thing that I do not understand is, why do changes that you are not sure about on a live site?
Lets speed this up a bit. I now need a new site. So, I asked Steven, if we start a new site with 3.6.2 would we have all of these bugs? “no, if you want me to do your other site, I will have it done in 48hours. My dumb ass now has him working on a second site when he did not finish the first. I get a call from Steven asking for an advance on his money because he needed to pay his server bill. (Hmmm if he has no sever he can't finish my site is what I was thinking) Ok how much do you need? “I need $500.00” what kind of server you got? LoL “well I have some other bills that I would like to take care of, I promise I will get your sites done in the next two days” so I gave him the money. (Here I am feeling good about helping out). The same night Lissa comes on line thanking me and sharing her story with me. Most of the time it felt more like cyber sex then anything else. Don't worry. I am not going into detail but I will post the text on the blog. Later that night Steven comes online with a lady by the name of Kerry Anne of www.peterska2.co.uk/. She blew me away with the way she did everything. First she is on nsraweb fixing one thing and then she is over on the next site doing something else. Man she was all over the place fixing everything. I could not keep my eyes open any longer or listen to them talk code. The next day my site was back to the 70% mark of the old site before Steven touched it. To my surprise, my new site was also up and on the back end of another site http://www.k9webhost.com/dorms/gallery/. I when over the new site and told my partner to do the same. He found a few things that was not right and made a post and asked that they get fixed. Here comes Steven “I am not going to make a dime on the new site, Kerry did a lot of work to finish the site an she needs to get paid” ok send me the pay pal request. I paid them the full $750 for the new site with the promise that it will go up the next day with all the errors that we found, fixed. The site never made it up. Ok no big deal because he is doing my new list and we are back on tract. Days became a week. A week became two. So I called him up and asked when I am going to have the rest of the work done. “sorry but I have this big job that I have to get done and then I can work on yours” No. We had a deal and you have passed our deadline. The show is coming up soon and this site must be finished. “I can not do some of the hacks that you want”. Why not? That is not what you claimed when we set the price. Shortly after that I was banned from his site, msn, yahoo, and skype messengers.
Next day, the site started to act real funny. We can no longer upload images from our pc, the spell check does not work, and about 6 other things do not work. OH SHIT, I quickly found Brandon of Vbulletinsetup Brandon took on my job. The first thing he did was help me remove Steven from the forum. Steven had some how stop anyone from deleted him from the site. Brandon was able to look at the code and removed him from the site. The next day I found Lissa still had access to the site. I did not think much of it at the time. But when I returned to the site it was no longer online. I checked with the guys who installed my site and they could not find any signs of the vb folders . At this time I send lissa an email that showed her where she lives. LOL my phone rings and it is her. I gave here a piece of my little mind, but it was good enough to get my site back up in less the 5 minutes. Yet, they claim they did not crash my site. I am now determined to stop this from happening to anyone else.
Every few days I will post more details and facts off of the skype communication.
Posted by huligar at 03:59 PM | Comments (0)
October 28, 2006
Vbpatrons.com is a hack site 2
how do you fight someone that took your money over the net/
well first you start a blog, and then you get the information about the site and the owner.
Registrant:
Global Roleplaying Games
5022 Bagnall Drive
Jefferson City, Missouri 65109
United States
Registered through: Cheap-DomainRegistration.com
Domain Name: VBPATRONS.COM
Created on: 14-Jun-06
Expires on: 14-Jun-07
Last Updated on: 19-Jul-06
Administrative Contact:
Moore, Steven mythotical@malvaria.com
Global Roleplaying Games
5022 Bagnall Drive
Jefferson City, Missouri 65109
United States
(573) 291-3424
Technical Contact:
Moore, Steven mythotical@malvaria.com
Global Roleplaying Games
5022 Bagnall Drive
Jefferson City, Missouri 65109
United States
(573) 291-3424
Domain servers in listed order:
NS1.VBPATRONS.COM
NS2.VBPATRONS.COM
Posted by huligar at 11:23 PM | Comments (0)
Vbpatrons.com is a hack site step 1
Have you ever gone looking for help with your website or just for a code? vbpatrons.com is the place not to go. They take advantage of the fact that paypal does not help you when it comes to goods on the internet. It also seems that a lot of the sites where you can find a hack like vbparons.com will not help, so here I am with the facts. I will post everything that I have. You make up your own mind.
http://www.vbulletin-faq.com/forum/showthread.php?p=33784#post33784
Posted by: Loco.M
On: 10-08-2006 07:33 PM
nice how this site deletes my post when they don't agree with me..lmao
maybe I'll get my client to post how great this guy screwed him over ;)
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http://www.vbulletin-faq.com/forum/showthread.php?p=33790#post33790
Posted by: joh
On: 10-08-2006 08:24 PM
---Quote (Originally by Joeychgo)---
Looks nice. Good luck with it.
On a side note, have you noticed how so many people are opening vB help sites?
It seems every week there is another one popping up.
---End Quote---
Hey joeychgo, some sites that claims to be vb help sites or not help sites at
all. They like to help themselves to your money. I paid one of these sites in
full to help with two of my sites. All I got was one of them half way done, When
I complained they crash my site. VB themselves could not find the files, but
when I call them up and gave them the address that they live, my phone rang and
my site was back up in less than two minutes. I now have a new coder that is
cleaning up the site. This coder have removed hidden links, I have gone to all
the programmers and asked for access of the files that I did have. It seems that
some of the stuff that I had was pirated (I paid the programmers to come to my
site and re-upload all the software that was stolen from them). I just hope that
this site have a way to stop coders like this from robbing people like me.
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http://www.vbulletin-faq.com/forum/showthread.php?p=33793#post33793
Posted by: joh
On: 10-08-2006 08:33 PM
---Quote (Originally by Steve M)---
Well my site is finally a success. Its a site dedicated to helping all of those
that use vBulletin. Its more of a service request site but we do just about
anything. I figured since you want to see it, I might as well post it up.
http://www.vbpatrons.com
If you have any suggestions or comments, let me know.
Cheers
Steve
---End Quote---
I am glad to see that the money from your clients when to some good.
Do you like my avatar, I have one of my wife in all black and another in red,
but I like this one best. Steve how do you like it?
All the best,
vBulletin FAQ Forums
Posted by huligar at 10:56 PM | Comments (0)