Second, he does not speak English as well as he thinks he does, and this can cause problems in dealing with him.
He sees only his own side of things, as you can see from some of his exchanges with Kent about him spamming the forum with images and sales pitches.
He uses his own interpretation of English and Logic.
Maybe he has given good service to other people....but in my case it did not go well.
I made a deal to purchase two of his packages from him (99 Euros and 59 Euros), along with some custom coding (he told me he would make a Head to Head script for 10 - 15 Euros), and whatever other scripts he was offering. His advertisement in this forum, and emails he sent me, said "all scripts"
99 euro = Complete website incl slots, roulette blackjack swf all scripts and 17 Table designs themes.
I told him I did not want the 17 Table themes, and I offered him 200 Euros for all of the other stuff, and asked him *twice* if he was going to give me all this stuff for 200 Euros, and he said "Yes."
Now he is trying to claim that he never agreed to that, and he refuses to give me the Head to Head script, or the other PM exe 1.1 file I thought he would be including.
He refuses to make any concessions whatsoever, even though I paid him a lot more than he was asking for his scripts in his forum...and I did not want the table themes.
Here is a summary of my complaint to him: (My words are in Red)
You told me to make you an offer.
I told you what I wanted: custom coding and *ALL* your other scripts: "whatever other good scripts you have written"
I asked you if you would give me this for 200 Euros.
You said that is a lot of scripts, but you said "YES."
Here is the copy of your email where you responded to my offer, below:
From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
To: non existent <[email protected]>
Sent: Sun, September 4, 2011 12:49:23 PM
Subject: Re: Script Poker Mavens
Dear Russ,
Is your name Daan or Danielle?
Danielle is a female name in English....are you female?
My name is Daan and i am male
Will the casino games (Roulette, Slots, Blackjack) legally licensed to me?
I do not want to get into trouble if they are Pirated copies?
They ar 1000% maked by me only and no pirated copy! i am the owner of them
I need to have pages with Leaderboards for the Roulette, Slots and Blackjack amounts,
so we can see a rank-ordered list of who the most successful players are.
I need the same thing for Poker. I need a Leaderboard for who has the most Poker Chips, in General.
I can make this for you, like the playing slots log is this olso no problem for me to make
I need another page which will show Tournament Winnings Leaderboard for Players....who has won the most Chips in Tournaments.
Take some more time then the other scripts but possible!
I need a Head to Head Match Leaderboard, which will show rankings based upon how many Wins and Losses in Head to Head matches.
I need whatever other good scripts you have written.
a little many script for only 200 euros.
Can you do all this for me for $200 Euros?
Yes.
gr
Daan
I asked you AGAIN if you would give me ALL your scripts:
From: non existent
Sent: Monday, September 05, 2011 3:51 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Script Poker Mavens
Hallo Meneer Daan:
If I understand you correctly you are willing to give me all those scripts plus the website source code for 200 Euros.
When would you be able to have the coding ready?
Russ
Again, you told me "Yes" - and that you would send everything as soon as I paid you on your website:
From: scriptswebshop.com <[email protected]>
To: non existent <[email protected]>
Sent: Mon, September 5, 2011 1:50:11 AM
Subject: Re: Script Poker Mavens
Yes, when you buy it in the store : http://www.scriptswebshop.com/en/49-special-order.html
Then i will make the code ready and send it to you.
gr
Daan
*****************END OF COLOR CODED QUOTES********
So, I paid him up front using a Link he sent me to his new Website (which has NO terms of service and no statements about Refund policies or anything) and he sent me the source code for his demo website (99Euros) (which is all in Dutch, and I cannot understand most of it) and he sent me the API package that he was selling for 59 Euros ...and he included some code he wrote to keep track of player activities for slots, blackjack and roulette.
There was a little surprise when I opened up the Read Me file: in there he stated that there was NO SUPPORT included, and support would have to be purchased on his website....even though it does not say that in any of the description of the product. How the hell am I supposed to even understand the instructions in Dutch with NO SUPPORT at all?
But he also did not include the Head to Head script he had told me he would do for 10 - 15 Euros...or any of the other scripts he was advertising for Poker Mavens.
I complained to him that there were a lot of Dutch words and phrases in the coding for the website AND for the API scripts (which he told me were in English, but that is not completely true...lots of variables are named in Dutch words in the database....and my Coder will have to translate them all in order to integrate his database with mine).
I complained about the hidden way he said there was no support.
I asked him to either give me a partial refund or give me the scripts which I thought I had paid for.
He refuses.
Here is my point:
His API script package scripts (59 Euros) were actually included in the Source Code package (99) but I paid him for both anyways (149 Euros Total) and gave him another 51 Euros for the custom coding he had told me he was going to do (remember he told me he would only charge me 10 -15 Euros for the Head to Head script)...and I thought he would throw in a couple of other scripts for the total payment of 200 Euros. He agreed to do that, as a package deal.
His argument is that he sent me a bunch of Slot Games as part of the Source Code package, which I would have to pay over 400 Euros for if I bought them separately through his website.
But, I did not ask for all those Slot Games, and do not even want them. I am willing to state that I have no license to use any of those games, and will not use them on any site, if he would negotiate in good faith.
His second argument is that because he stated: a little many script for only 200 euros. that this was a rejection of my offer, and that he was not obligated to provide me with the head to head script.
In my opinion, this is nonsense, because in the very next line of the email I asked him if he would " do ALL of this for 200 Euros" and he said "YES."
I asked him TWICE if he would provide all of these scripts, and he said YES.
He never told me anywhere in our emails that there would be NO Support, and he never told me anywhere that he would REFUSE to give me the Head to Head code as part of the package.
He claims that the statement "that is a lot of scripts for a little money" is somehow a statement that he will not provide the head to head script, but he should have said "No, I will not provide that." He did not say that.
He refuses to give me even the Head to Head script to resolve this conflict. Even though I have explained that we had some language communication barriers, he is trying to claim that I am trying to cheat him...when, if anything, it looks like he is trying to back out of the agreement he said yes to.
I cannot speak to the quality of his coding...my coder cannot understand a lot of it, because the scripts are partly written in Dutch:
Example:
I have politely asked him several times to compromise with me, and to find a solution to this disagreement.// Verwijder deze comment en de onderstaande regel als je een eigen stylesheet gebruikt...
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}
if($login AND session_is_registered('userid')){
$query = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM leden WHERE userid = '$userid'");
$toon = mysql_fetch_object($query);
while($object = mysql_fetch_object($query)){
$gebruikersnaam = $object->gebruikersnaam;
$priveberichten = $object->pm;
}
He refuses to consider that maybe HE is part of the problem, and claims that *I* do not know how to read...which is a laugh...given that I have 3 degrees from English speaking university programs.
Instead, he accuses me of trying to cheat *him* in some way.
I have filed a complaint with Paypal.
I am not saying he is a bad person....but he is difficult to deal with, and has his own self-serving interpretation of the English language.
Caveat Emptor.