Before any of you guys get the wrong impression about this post, please understand that I have gotten permission from Jeremy to post about this issue, and I have had numerous chats with Godfather via PM and he has only mocked me in his responses....
Here is the story.......
Many months ago, I was just starting out as an affiliate and looking to pay an expereinced web designer on this forum to help me get my feet wet. I met a very friendly and active poster on this great forum known as "Godfather." We talked a lot about him helping me out with what I wanted and that I would pay him. To keep a long story relatively short, I transfered him some money to get started and than BAM! he disappears from the forums. He disappeared for a couple of months in fact.
As many of you know, he claims to have had a near death experience, falling on his head and bleeding from the brain, very serious stuff. If it is true, then goddamn you should be thanking god you are still a live every waking second of every day. Here on PAW there were a couple of posts titled "where is the godfather" people had absolutley no clue what happened. When he rejoined the forums he eplained to us all this injury and he even PM'd me expressing to me that he owed me money and that he would pay me in a couple of weeks when he could get funds on a poker account so he could do a transfer.
This all seemed very reasonable to me, I am not one to think people are dishonest, especially someone who has showed nothing but kindness on these forums like the Godfather has. He experienced a near fatal injury, why not wait a little longer to receive 150 bucks, it's not like I am starving over here or anything. So I waited another month or so. In the "
Getting Better Slowly Thread" started by the Godfather, I even defended his injury while others thought it was BS.
Sure enough, I waited even longer for the Godfather to return. He even promised me he would pay me interest on the money he owed me. In response to that, I even sent him a PM saying, "I know you have been through a lot lately, why not just pay me 100 bucks and we'll call it even." He insisted on paying me interest!
Just the other day I sent him a PM saying that I have grown tired of waiting. I told him that I do not any longer believe that you will actually pay me the money that you owe me, much less 2/3's of it. I ultimately told him, if I do not receive payment in the next day, I will be going public on this forum so everyone can be able to comment on this issue if they desire to. In response I received a rather obnoxious PM:
Quote:
Greetings Dear Friend
I understand your problems and i will give you full support on
this matter when you go public with this. If you wish to ask any
advice or questions feel free to mail me at
and i will answer all you concerns and questions, so that you
will have a successful hot thread at the forums.
I wish you good luck and i hope your websites do well in the
future and bring you lots of money. I understand that you are
going through financial problems and i hope you will get through
it soon. I am not in the affiliate business anymore, but still enjoy
reading posts here, so you will probably still see me commenting
at the forums.
:P GoodFather :P
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In the PM he claims i have financial problems which is not true at all. I simply do not think it is OK for people to steal money from other people which is essentially what the Godfather has done here. I paid him for a service that never got done (which I guess was dumb on my part to begin with) yet I have paid people to do work on websites for me before... And there was no reason to not trust him. The Godfather has been showing up sporadically to post on these forums, and still ignoring the fact that he has stolen money from me. He claims that he will comment on this "hot thread" which I invite him and everyone else to do so.
It is not about the 150 dollars to me anymore. It is the principle, a seemingly trustworthy and great human being can actually be deep down a crook, and think that he can get away with still being considered a welcomed member on this GREAT forum that I visit multiple times daily for all the great things that it offers. I am not asking for you to ignore the Godfather when he posts, or call him ill words, I am just asking you to all consider and remember this situation when he is posting on a given thread in these forums. That this man is not as kind hearted as he appears, he is actually a crook.
Once again, thank you for the opportunity to post on this matter. I wish you all nothing but greatness and success.
-Ross
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