Advertise With Pleasure PRO (scam alert)

This wasnt here before. He was listed as being in Massachussets ... then Belarus before.

Still havent heard from him. If he's there, maybe that little bitch is dead.

i am upset about this. - edited by deker

Well, there you have it....a warning from Pank and guess who didn't listen.

Trick, my question to you is: why would you not get half the money up front & why not accept only a certified cashier's check (or the Intl equivalent).

I mean come on, this Alex guy's English is awful -- that in itself is a huge tipoff -- and you go and do all this work for him & then send him the manual BEFORE you get paid!!! Unreal.

So he continues to do business & now has a professionally written manual to look even more legitimate. It amazes me that some Russian who can barely speak English is bilking people out of their moeny even after they know who he is. I guess that testifies to the power of the Internet & how you should NEVER, EVER spend money or provide services up front unless you research and verify that everything is legit & feel 100% comfortable before you make a commitment.

Hey, just wondering - since this Alex guy seems to be the one behind the software, what about the Piter person mentioned on the GuruPearl website? Is there anyone else that can step in.
Here is the text that appears on the GP site:

[I][COLOR=crimson]GuruPerl.com was founded and owned by Piter Calck, a senior programmer from Boston with 6 years of extensive software and hardware experience. Since the foundation in October 2002, GuruPerl.com has been dedicated to the development of innovative, affordable, and reliable website software's.
Our first commercial software, Advertise With Pleasure (AWP), was released on late August of 2002. AWP is now being used on hundreds of websites worldwide with great success. [/I] [/COLOR]

I'm sure Peter = Alex. That's just Alex's way of bilking people out of even more money.

Vamp, Ive been in business for myself since 1996 in professionsal floor covering, then now own a newspaper last Dec, and got into web design last year in Jan and never with all the customers I have serviced, and there are hundreds, I have never got ripped off before. I have always dealt with people who paid me honestly and I guess I took this for granted.

He said, before I made the manual, and believe you me, I always expect some money up front before I do anything ... in this case ... He said that Share it Merchants sends him a check once a month and that he will pay me soon as they send it to him ... and he did this. He was about 4 days late with the pay and I had to remind him about it but he did sent it through PayPal.

When I first bought the program I was pretty much disgusted with it and demanded a refund just like Pank did and Alex refused to refund it. It was legitimate not to refund me because it was an issue over MySQL of which I took care of later by going to a different server.

Yet again, Im still disgusted with the prog because of the screwed up English in it. Guess who straightened it out ... I did.

I went ahead and gone though all the files and changed everything until it was user friendly or at least the way I liked it. I purchased it to add something to my newspaper, I didnt have any attentions to do anything for this guy.

He saw what I did to the program and explained to me that the next version (4.0 from 3.5) was coming out and needed badly an American friend to write a user manual for the program because by this time of fixing his crap I knew this program inside out. And then after the program because of my knowledge of it he then asked me to run support and help people install the program on their servers ... this of which I never been paid to do.

I guess about two weeks into it I started to believe that I would never see any money out of support so I just stopped what I was doing and told him to take it over.

I checked the email from their to see if he was or not and he was not. The email got packed to about 89 unanswered emails.

Right about the time of ratting on him here on this board and especially after not hearing from him at all from several emails I sent to him I went back into his email support and told every single customer to check this board out.

Well I know the little bitch is around because He changed the password to support.

What his excuse is that in Belarus, a small communist country where he supposively lives cannot use PayPal ... he said he gave a friend of his the money to send to me by his friends credit card ... yeah I got the money, all $500 of it like he promised and then 4 days later I got an email from PayPal that the credit card used was fraud .. now I am 100% liable for the money. I transfered all of it except maybe $20 of it to my bank account and paid my electricity and phone bill with it, plus I had $82 on there that customers sent to me for classified ads ... thats all gone, PayPal took that to amking me liable for $403.

And the thought I came here first to defend Alex from Panks reports, I mean, I really thought Alex was an honest person. I talked to him allot before any working deals were done for him. I honestly thought this guy needed some partnership to help his business grow and I could do that.

I have sent him 10 emails and several ICQ messages and he has not responded to none of them.

I understand I can still make a chargeback on him from the purchase of the program and intend to do so tommorow. I have been to Matts scripts and yelled scam there.

Alex is still sending out new versions of that program so I know he is seeing them.

The last time I heard from him he said he would send me a certified bank check to me. He also said he was going to pay me for all the support work I did. f-ing liar. He isnt going to do anything.

I dont have a clue who this Piter guy is.

The credit card used had an address from a Eric Purdun in NJ and I dont know who he is either. I seeked out a Phone# on this but could not find. Ill attempt to send a letter as I have an address but its probably phony to.

I can testify with an email from Alex and a web address to where he found some kind of hole in a data base of some candle company of which he saw every transaction with credit card numbers and names and addresses. I almost bet he paid me with one of those credit cards.

Im not done with him. Im going to rip him a big asshole the longer he jacks me around with this money.

Like I said this has never happend to me before but it will never happen again.

Trick is sounding more and more like one of us all the time... welcome to the family Trick!!!

And I think his post just set a record for the longest in board history.

I snooped around a bit and found that guruperl is hosted by www.cihost.com, which is a Russian hosting company. - very unprofessional because I emailed them inquiring about hosting and it was real casual and had blatant spelling errors. So I dont think he is anywhere near Mass or Belarus.

Hey thanks for letting me in the family!!!

Sorry for the long winded posts ...