Topic: Payment Not Delivered - work rendered for "usagi" (payment made by Matthew N.) (Read 2147 times)

Thank you Matthew for honoring this agreement. I am not sure how it relates to you, but if you are willing to take the debt I accept this and defer it to you. I appreciate the forthcoming in fixing this quickly. If he would have contacted me sooner I might not have asked for anything, but I was left with my last notice being to continue work. I did not want to make this a big public issue but in PMs usagi was not only very confrontational but quite rude, and seemed to be of the opinion that his connections would allow him to steamroll over this issue. Once again thank you for taking care of this, as well as strengthening the community as a whole. I will lock this thread now.

This is the type of bullshit that shouldn't be on this forum.
The guy did what was asked of him, pay the dude already.

Cheers TECSHARE, and good luck.

Paid. (Completely inexcusable, but I support him and will cover this debt.)

YES! We want Steve! We want Steve!

Don't make me pull out Scumbag Steve...

Remember me? (At least OP didn't go starting a thread telling everyone to "abuse the work freely")

Yeah, I'm getting deja vu here...

QFT

Theft of services is still theft. Pirate failing to fulfill his financial obligations does not mean usagi is exempt from his obligations.

You did your work and should be paid for it.

The time you spent on the project should not be ignored, I hope you are able to get payment. (I know that feeling)

It was wrong for him to rely on pirate as some sort of backing for his little project. TECSHARE completed all, or most of the work and should be paid accordingly. If you have a flooring company come into your home to do some flooring, and when they're 90% done you realize you cant pay for the damn house doesn't mean they do not get paid.

usagi requested some logotypes and banners be completed for some of his companies here: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/design-97172
All relevant quotes are listed below.

In summary we made an agreement on the 2nd of August (1) where he requested a logotype and banner be completed “rush” and “asap”. I completed a logotype and a basic banner as requested (2) and he clearly stated his satisfaction with the logos not only in statement, but by offering to pay 50% of the total project cost. (2) Who pays money for a project they don't approve of? He then clearly states that he would like to move forward with the banner (2).

I then update the logo, attempting the sail design as requested, but the concept is a visually boring bunch of boxes, so I ditch the idea and update the fonts as requested (3) and then complete a basic banner with the modified logo requested on “rush” (4) I contact him 3 times over a period of 9 days with no reply (5) I then work on an animated banner which was completed to its current state (6) on the 17th just after I sent my last contact before his reply.

On the 18th, 9 days after his last reply, he notifies me he no longer needs the work (7) he makes no mention of any form of compensation, and after I ask to be compensated he proceeds to become extremely adversarial and begins talking about using some Bitcoin court which I have never heard of or have any interest in participating in.

At this point I have completed the large majority of the hours required for this project. He clearly approves of the logo and requests work on a banner, as well as offers partial payment for the project. He feels because he cancels the project after most, but not all of the work is completed, I have therefore not met the approval standards for ANY payment.

If I had canceled this agreement I would not expect any compensation, but he clearly APPROVES the logo design and asks for additional work then later decides he wants to cancel the agreement after work is complete on the logo and basic banner. An agreement is called an agreement so that one of the parties doesn't simply change their mind later after time and resources are wasted leaving the other party who operated in good faith paying the bills for some one else's mistake.  I am sorry your company is collapsing – but that was not my mistake.

In this case I not only spent the majority of the development time on the logo, I passed up other jobs in order to complete this project. In conclusion, I would normally charge $100 for a basic non-rush logotype design. This project was a RUSH, in addition a basic banner was completed and significant progress was made on an animated banner. COMPLETELY DISREGARDING the cost of the banners and the rush order, I would normally charge $100 in Bitcoin for a completed logotype WHICH HAS BEEN PROVIDED AS REQUESTED AND APPROVED OF BY USAGI.

I have attempted a civil resolution to this problem but usagi is extremely confrontational clearly not interested in honoring his agreements, so this post seems to be the only resort.

Therefore usagi should render a payment equivalent to $100 in Bitcoins to: 1BBDrjFdoKSQqXgAmSt5Ng5RHNvTytiqey     in order to honor the agreement he made with me, or be marked as a scammer as a person who has committed theft of service, just like any other form of scammer we have here.



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(6)http://www.tecshare.com/cpabanner4.gif

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