Topic: TradeFortress Review Thread (Read 3012 times)

Personally, I like him.

But it's been 3 days and he still hasn't explained in this topic.

Are you still happy with his work on www.terrawallet.com ?
Maybe it's time to fire him and pay a real programmer to do the job? Or did you decide to abandon the project altogether?
Please update us with your satisfaction on that site which seems horrid imho. Hopefully that's not what you consider a finished site?

Compilation of a few of the different scams TF has done, starting with the best commercially developed website he created for a customer:
#1 - Praise for his work on the development of defunct website www.terrawallet.com
Quote from: crazy_rabbit on February 24, 2013, 07:28:22 PM
[...] I've been working with him for awhile and the site is actually quite complicated: www.terrawallet.com and I've been happy so far.  [...]
TF never did get past the beta stage for terrawallet, which only managed to display a horrible looking and virtually unusable website (as of a few weeks ago). It was finally put out of it's misery after numerous people lost TRC and the code utterly crapped out as described in this thread:
Quote from: crazy_rabbit on April 16, 2013, 03:10:49 PM
[...]
The wallet is closed and will not reopen. [...] The software was not final version- nor anywhere close and many things had not been taken care of yet.
[...] To those who have written rather nasty messages even before I announced the closure to complain with vulgar language: I probably won't write you back.
I must stress that all users were warned clearly on every page of the site that it was Beta and that there was a very real possibility of losing your coins. I regret that this has happened but I must stress the warning listed on every page:
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"Do not lose your password- it can not be reset! As the Value of TRC rises on the exchange we must say again- this is BETA and with no warrenty! Also, don't store more coins then you can afford to lose- this site is still yet BETA and we won't take any responsbility for hacks, intrusions, coding errors or negligence! Don't be stupid. [...]"

I will be posting the source code for the wallet soon.
If the code is ever revealed, users should ignore reviewing the worthless source code seeing how horrible the site looked and performed during it's perpetual "beta" stage.
Reviews and feedback of that site are here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=135974.0;all

#2 - Report of TF committing a nearly identical Programming Scam to how he did me:
Quote from: mining4fun11 on November 18, 2012, 09:05:18 PM
I had hired tradefortress to do some programming for me and I had given him a 15btc deposit.  He hasn't responded to any of my messages for a week.  How do I have a scammer tag applied.[...]
Quote from: mining4fun11 on November 22, 2012, 03:03:10 AM
JUST and FYI.  Please dont trust Tradefortress he scammed me out of 15 btcs.

#3 - Another reported TF Programming Scam (posted in response to TF scamming me) :
Quote from: starsoccer9 on February 23, 2013, 06:34:14 PM
LOL, [TF] did the same thing to me and then made up some BS and still owes me a few BTC but i got over it. [...]

#4 - Another Reported TF programming scam :
Quote from: starsoccer9 on February 25, 2013, 01:24:37 AM
[TF] basically did nearly the same for me, made me a few apps I requested but the apps werent in the time frame I need and there were lots of excuses he threw in and some BS about him wanting half up front to make half the apps the rest to finish it when he didnt mention that. Then the apps he didnt give me any details about what the apps did at all simply naming them app1,app2 and so on.

#5 - TF scamming through ripple:
Quote from: arsenische on May 17, 2013, 03:06:34 AM
Just facts: TradeFortress issued IOUs and sent them to users who trusted him. IOU means "I owe you". Thus he admitted that he owes to that people.
Question: If one owes to people who trust him, but is not going to pay them, then who is that person?
Quote from: bitaccumulation on May 18, 2013, 12:15:10 AM
[TradeFortress] posted on a newbie forum the following: " I am giving away at least 1 BTC per address on Ripple."

You flat out said you are giving away BTC on Ripple.  The only way to do that on Ripple is to issue an IOU since the only trust-free currency on Ripple is XRP.   You are playing on the fact that people don't understand how Ripple works.  That is not a flaw. [...]
Quote from: webr3 on May 20, 2013, 05:59:23 PM
[TF] owes me 10.15 BTC that he has taken from me and given to other people.
He has also promised to pay 445+ other people 1 BTC each which he has yet not fullfiled.
Worse, he has done so by asking them for 100 BTC credit, in a deceitful manner, setting up a scenario where many people could be scammed out of a great deal of money.
[...]
Quote from: bitaccumulation on May 21, 2013, 12:04:58 AM
I PM'd [TradeFortress] to ask him how he would deal with redeeming IOUs so that anyone could convert his IOUs into BTC.  He wrote...
[message picture omitted]
So in summary he misled people, while counting on their ignorance of how Ripple works, into letting him put them in harm's way so he and his confederates could steal their legitimate IOU's from reputable gateways.

#6 - My encounter with TF:
I hired TF in December, 2012.
Paid TF a total of 27 btc for a "2 week" job that he couldn't finish in over 2 months.
TF offered to pay for arbitration around early March after I fired him towards the end of Febuary when I realized that he couldn't code the site and would continue to deliver unusable "final versions" of the site.
Later in March, TF refused to pay any share of arbitration or participate in it, even after I paid half the fee to judge.me (which judge.me is refusing to refund).
Around that time, I released the code that TF provided as his final product, it shows the incompetence of his programming.
Quote from: Carlos L. on February 28, 2013, 08:49:18 AM
I saw the code, half it's functions were not working, the structure looks like it was made by a 14 year old with 2 months experience.
IMHO, the job that MoneyPakTrader paid for was not delivered in time nor completed, so he deserves at-least a partial refund.
Quote from: Carlos L. on February 28, 2013, 05:03:15 PM
This applies: "When the script was delivered to me, some of the features weren't working"
In late March, early April I contracted with a developer who coded the site (moneypaktrader.com) which needed a "complete rewrite". This was finished in late April when it was publicly launched. Since then development has been done on a per issue basis, such as after  TF performed an unauthorized penetration test, leading to some site developments to repair that vulnerability.

TF has continually refused to either deliver a final usable version of the website I paid him in full for or refund any of the deposits I sent to him (totaling 27 BTC). I already paid for moneypaktrader.com to be created by another programmer, so TF owes a full refund for his failure to perform on the programming contract as I have plenty of evidence for. I have committed to turning over 100% of recovered btc to charity and will honor that promise in the unlikely event any recoveries are made.

There's plenty of links in this thread to realize that no matter how many people *like* TF, he scammed me on the web-development. And no matter how many people *dislike* me and who I do business with, I was the victim of TF's web-development scam similar to numerous other users.

Message me if you have something to add.

Excellent, did he give you a time-frame for when it will be up so we can see how it works? Do you mind telling how much he received from you so far?
Has TF completed any commercial websites that we can review and know the cost he charged for the coding job?
It looks complicated and at least you knew in advance that he's never coded a TRC website, so there's bound to be "bugs" in that process. One of my problems was that when I asked him about making a site to accept BTC similar to the one in his sig, he just went with it like he's programmed a commercial site that allows for BTC deposits. Then I find out later the site he tried to make for me would have been the first BTC deposit taking site he's completed  (if he had ever got it to work reliably).
LOL, Yeah, I just saw that. But the owner could go through the code and edit it if he really cared, that's not TF fault. Or maybe the owner didn't report the error to TF yet.
Is it normal to have to go through every little piece of a commercial web-programmer's work and need to correct things like this? Maybe I've been spoiled by dealing with artisans who give guarantees/warranties on their work.

[...]I've been working with him for awhile and the site is actually quite complicated: www.terrawallet.com and I've been happy so far.
I hadn't thought about future code maintenance, perhaps I will speak with him about this, but I personally can't support a scammer tag at this point. I would say to try giving him another chance- Debugging is a long and hard process something that I think both sides need to dedicate a lot of time to.

Saw this on the front page- I assume thats 2 factor auth.

TF has refused my settlement offer and is reneging on his arbitration offer.

I encourage TF customers to review his work in here, Love it? Hate it? Want to use his services but don't have any reason to?

I hope his potential victims are able to see this thread and his scammer thread before making a decision either way since TF is intent on finding more unsuspecting "customers" to separate from their coins.

Where did he say that? I don't see it in this topic, and it certainly didn't say it in the other one: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/scammer-trade-fortress-126588

However, I have to say I suspect MoneyPakTrader is motivated by attempting to (and he will not) getting more money than he actually paid me with a free long on BTC. You went from asking if you owe me more to full refund to 16 BTC refund to 12 BTC refund. It's called trying to see how much you can get.

I'll let trade fortress speak for himself, but he's done a great job addressing issues I brought up. There have been errors, but he has worked to fix them. 27BTC for a site is pretty inexpensive I must say, though I agree it's not cheap if it doesn't work.

Maybe try speaking with him more and you guys can maybe find an amicable solution to your problem. I've been working with him for awhile and the site is actually quite complicated: www.terrawallet.com and I've been happy so far.

I hadn't thought about future code maintenance, perhaps I will speak with him about this, but I personally can't support a scammer tag at this point. I would say to try giving him another chance- Debugging is a long and hard process something that I think both sides need to dedicate a lot of time to.

two factor auto

Do you have anymore evidence to back up this claim? Asking for a scammer tag is pretty serious.