Porn Valley- There’s a lot of drama going on with Adultfyi today. You can find some of the story on www.johntbone.com; you can find some of it on www.lukeisback.com. What it comes down to is this. I’ve been dealing with an uncooperative webmaster for several years who’s now decided that he wanted more of the pie for himself.
He’s been trying to hold me up for banner revenue and for the longest time I’ve been dealing with ongoing threats of having the plug pulled on the site.
Some times you got to take matters into your own hands. And this week I took Adultfyi away from this guy who somehow got the impression he owned the site. Right now he’s demanding $7,000, and that if I don’t cough it up within ten days he’s reporting me to the Pennsylvania State Police. I assume that’s for driving a website without a license.
This guy is using words like “hijack.” Last time I checked, I owned the site. How do you hijack something you own? In an e-mail sent to me Thursday morning, he admitted to destroying all my content and all my e-mails. [I had the sense to save the content, the e-mails I couldn’t do anything about.] I also believe screwing around with e-mails is a criminal offense on his part.
Because of the way this guy had been dicking around with my site in the past, I knew this was going to end badly. So this Hatfield-McCoys drama came to the front burner when the Xbiz banner went up on Adultfyi. Not your ordinary banner, and so I got my former webguy first-hand involved. Off the bat, he wanted me to charge Xbiz an arm and a leg for it. The owner of Xbiz-Alec- kind of laughed when I relayed the dollar figure my webmaster advised me on. Xbiz and I subsequently agreed on another price. After which my former webguy made it sound like putting this banner up was very intricate business.
I bought into it and naively promised to cut him in for doing the work. We agreed on a price of $200 for the service, me not realizing at the time that it was more simple to do than the way he was conveying it. It would be later to realize that no good deed goes unpunished. He began sticking it to me. He wanted more and moe dough.
There was no due date set on that payment, and I, in fact, brought it up to him in subsequent conversation that I hadn’t forgotten and would take care of it.
The Xbiz banner would have expired anyway, but I kept it going on the site as a sales tool. Devils Film decided they wanted to take the Xbiz spot. And I relayed their banner to the former webguy. When it didn’t go up, I spent three days calling his home number, his cell phone number and sending him e-mails. In that time, he sent me one return e-mail claiming that he was working on a mainstream project and couldn’t contact me. Seeing this as cloak and dagger nonsense, on the Friday morning before Christmas, I left another message at his house.
This time his usual greeting was replaced with a message best described as drunken pigeon English. I thought I dialed the wrong number. I called again. Same message. The third time I called, I had to tape this response or no one would have believed it. I left a message to say that I thought this was an unbelievable way to do business and very unprofessional.
Instead of being a man about this whole thing, this guy next sent me an e-mail the day after Christmas. It was enriched with snake oil. It referred to my “threatening” voice mail and that I should seriously reconsider leaving others. Really? I want this guy to produce that voice mail and hold it as evidence. Next I got another e-mail stating that after he heard this threatening message again, he’s now reconsidered our relationship. He basically wanted triple the amount to run the site.
To make matters even worse, he had promised to take care of the Devils Film banner once we squared the Xbiz banner. But he reneged on that as well.
I decided then and there I had enough of him.
story in progress