This poll is for sublime's Scammer list -
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=149147.0;all My summary/viewpoint of charges against TradeFortress:
1) I had a horrible experience trying to get my site coded by TF.
2) He intentionally scammed me out of 27 BTC.
3) He knew he did not have the level of skill or experience required to sell web-programming services for a commercial bitcoin accounts based website.
4) He misrepresented his experience by failing to correct my mistaken belief that he coded a bitcoin accepting website in the past, specifically
https://bitzino.com/ the website in his forum sig. This obviates any claim of "buyer beware" for his services.
5) He attempted to do what was necessary to present the appearance of successfully coding my site, but as the code/final site provided reveals, this was still a non-operable site that did not forward bitcoins correctly and was written so poorly and has so many bugs and non-usable aspects it is unsuitable to be sold as commercial website design. The only publicly released version of his final product (as of now) is available here:
http://www.megafileupload.com/en/file/398233/Moneypak-zip.htmldirect link -
http://94.75.216.85/en/file/398233/Moneypak-zip.htmlI have stopped hosting it since I don't want customers to associate this non-functional and unusable site with my domain. I am instead paying for a complete rewrite of the site.
6) TF has not released a functional version of the website I paid 27 BTC to be completed.
7) TF agreed to pay arbitration, but never filed the case and instead slandered me in emails to the judge.me arbitration service and has not paid the fee for the case I filed at judge.me.
I've agreed to send any funds recovered from TF to charity.
9) TF Scam thread with lengthy details here:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=126588.0;all10) TF Review thread with more details of our dispute here:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/tradefortress-review-thread-14631911) TF solicited more work from others, using the non-functional/unfinished web-development he did for me, but few others were actually scammed and one user reports a good experience, however their site is apparently non-functional as of this post (see above threads).
12) Careful review of the evidence in the linked threads will prove TF is a scammer and not a proficient web-developer.
Not to my knowledge. He paid me the 0.05 BTC he promised.
Paying someone to code your site 95% of the time you will end up with results below your expectations. Doesnt mean the dev is a scammer.