[Re]Encoded.com

So today I finally found out what guy who is harassing me (from now on we will call him Gerald) is so upset about. When we made the deal I explained to him that I had paid for a couple of months of hosting and that I would be happy to leave the site on my server for the time that I had already paid for. At the time; he agreed to this, but now apparently he thinks I changed the password (to my hosting account which he never had the password for to begin with) in an intricate plot to steal his site. He has informed me in several emails that it is his site and makes sure to remind me that the the domain name of his site is gamedip.com. I am revealing the domain name because I don’t really care about his privacy anymore. Let’s not give him any additional traffic though, under his control traffic has dropped by more than 30%. Here is an example of an email he sent me about the hosting situation. Continue reading »

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Here is a story about a web site sale that went terribly wrong. About two months ago I purchased a website where users play free games online for about $3,000 . I held onto the site until one day I was contacted by someone who had tried to buy the site at the same time I did but missed the opportunity. After a few email exchanges I agreed to sell him the site for $3,600. He asks for my phone number and I give it to him so that we can talk about the transaction. I end up on the phone with this guy for like 3 hours, he just won’t stop talking. The next morning my phone rings at 7:30 A.M. (He lives on the east coast so there is a time difference) wanting to talk to me about the site. At this point I have already transfered the domain name to him and all the cpanel usernames and passwords. The next morning he calls me 10 more times, when I finally wake up and answer he basically spends 20 minutes telling me how the site is going. He then tells me that my Google ads are on his page and I need to get them off immediately. (and that Google is going to penalize me for having my ads on his page) I tell him that I transfered everything over to him and have no access to the site anymore. He did not seem to understand and continued to tell me that Google was going to suspend my account if I did not get my ads off of his site. Once this issue was resolved he continued to call me everyday. According to my phone log (which does not even go back to when he first started calling me) I have 43 calls from him. At this point this guy was not only calling me ask about the site but just to ask me about my business (which he would then turn into a 30 minute conversation). Continue reading »

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