Porn Valley- Heather Hampton's webmaster Ivy Faulkner slammed her this weekend. http://adultfyi.com/read.aspx?ID=5834. And for reasons Hamptons said she can't begin to fathom.
Faulkner's not telling the whole story, says Hamptons who agreed to a 50-50- split on revenues from the heatherhamptons.com website with Faulkner. [Hamptons says her fiancee bought the url.] With all of that said, Hamptons would wind up with usually less than 10% of the take. Hamptons said her site, according to info she was getting, was making maybe $300 a month of which Hamptons would get about $23, according to her. Also, according to Hamptons, Faulkner's claims that she didn't meet the obligations as far as her contract were concerned, were full of crap.
Faulkner's stories regarding the numbers of times Hamptons would update, changes several times, said Hamptons who's been spending time rehabilitating from a breast augmentation. Hamptons said she hired Faulkner in January to take over the design work of her website. "It's a 50-50 partnership," Hamptons said. "She doesn't work for me and I don't work for her. We just do things together with both of us having a say." Hamptons said the agreement didn't work out like that at all. Hamptons also claims that Faulkner managed to lock her out of CCBill so she couldn't see how much money was coming in. Hamptons said she would get notification when someone signed up, how much they signed up for and the amount of time. "I knew what was coming in but I couldn't verify it with CCBill," Hamptons says. "I was only getting $23 checks. There was $300, $400 coming in and I'm only getting a $23 check per month. That's not 50%"
Hamptons says the reason Faulkner seems to think she's in breach of contract to update stems from seven weeks ago when she had a breast augmentation. "I'm still trying to recover from that," said Hamptons. "No one wants to see scars and bruises." Along with that, Hamptons has discovered some additional complications. "I found a lump and they think it's a cyst."
Hamptons says she's just trying to kick back and recover- now this drama. But Hamptons also tells me that when she returned from surgery on August 28th, she checked her e-mails to discover that her domain name had expired.
Hamptons figures that Faulkner would have a better handle of the situation, her being a mother as well as Hamptons. But, aside from the surgery downtime, says Hamptons, she updated regularly. Hamptons says she's tried to discuss the situation with Faulkner but that Faulkner has blown the issue way out of proportion by taking their business on to the 'Net.
According to Hamptons, Faulkner was supposed to have been in charge of marketing heatherhamptons.com but did a lousy job judging from the Alexa rankings which had the site at 560,000. Hamptons says other sites run by Faulkner aren't doing much better and one site is ranked around two million. "All of the sites she's doing have no traffic coming in except hers." What's also troubling to Hamptons is the fact that Faulkner has allegedly locked her out of her e-mails. "Anybody who e-mails me, they're not going to get me. But she didn't close the account- she changed the password. She has access to all my information that comes through there."
Hamptons also charges that Faulkner locked her out of her membership area. "She has nothing to say about that- I've tried calling her; I've tried e-mailing her. I get no response." Hamptons says even though her fiancee owns the url, Faulkner managed to make it look like she was the owner. "She somehow got in there and managed to change all the information." Faulkner is claiming that Hamptons doesn't own the domain name, but Hamptons says she has the invoice that proves she paid for it.
"This is very immature to have to bring the whole world into this," says Hamptons. Asked how the two struck a business deal to begin with, Hamptons says she knew Faulkner for a couple of years. "I shot with a photographer that she was friends with. That's how we knew each other. But we hadn't had contact for maybe a year. I was hosting on GFY and looking for a designer, somebody to take over because it was too much work at the time." Hamptons says Faulkner contacted her and agreed to the 50-50 partnership that Hamptons was looking for.
According to Hamptons, Faulkner's initial story was that someone [Rebecca Pauline] had treated her in essentially the same manner that Hamptons now claims Faulkner is behaving. "She [Faulkner] claims she would never do this to somebody, but the same thing has happened to me," says Hamptons. "I thought we were friends but, like they say, it's a cutthroat business. Business is business, and you can't have friends in the adult entertainment industry. It's really sad."
Hamptons has since taken some matters into her own hand and started up www.Heather-Hamptons.com and www.Heather-Hamptons.net. She can also be contacted via http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HeatherHamptons.
