Web Media Projects - Michael Mann Scam Artists - He will take your money, make excuses and never refund it! Gulfport Mississippi

It is true that we contracted this work and that 25% of the project price was made as a deposit.

It is also true that we worked for 4 months on this project running up over 60 man hours.

No 2nd payment was ever made, nor the third or final. Only the deposit.

When this project was cancelled we had over 60 man hours invested at a stated rate of $35/hour (posted in our profile at GetAFreeLancer where this project was contracted). the client refused to honor his comittment to us and at this stage we have refuse to continue to work on this project.

Our total due amount is $2100 and we've recieved only $325 to date.

This filing is an attempt to avoid a just obligation and an attempt to extort us for the $325.

Mr. Mann's Contracts are not legal. Him and his daughter find contracts online from other people's websites. They then cut and snip and edit to fit their needs. He has no lawyer, no team of experts and his contracts are FULL of loop holes.

Mr. Mann, on a daily basis will talk people into canceling their freelancer bids and pay him his deposit. This is illegal and against the policy of those sites. In fact, I reported him to one freelancer site and they setup a "honey pot" for Mike and banned him from doing business there.

Mike is a sweet talking con man. He has done this for years. Just lookup his criminal record, it is public right.

Hey, Jeff, so what if I use snips of freely available paragraphs in my agreements. Are you saying that everyone in business has a legal team draft documents that are made from scratch?

We only use NDA's (common) and sometimes NCA's (again, common) so why reinvent the wheel? These are used with express consent from sites that offer that type of service (actually, I paid, in one case) so what's the beef?

How do you use this as an example of some sort of wrong-doing?

And, the Linkery, (and a few others up here) seem to ignore our development terms when it suits them.

We do, in fact, take development project deposits that are in place to GUARANTEE our company (not the client) that we get paid if the client finds another developer or runs out of funds before completion of a project. This deposit is NOT to the benefit of the client. If it were, why would it be a deposit to us? It's a deposit to assure us we get paid if we work.

Linkery did pay a deposit. We did work on the project and had over 20 man-hours invested. When Joel attempted to cancel the project we did suspend work and we billed him at OUR STATED RATE (clearly stated on all project bid boards) of $65 per hour.

At 20 hours we had over $1300 invested and Joel wanted to pull the plug?

BTW, Joel, why not tell the truth? You agreed to THREE payments. One on inception (which you made), one on beta preview and one on completion. You NEVER made the beta payment. You cancelled the project, demanded all your money back and never made another payment - even though we offered to show you an accounting and what we had done so far.

Call it what you will - we worked for this payment and we SHOULD have sued you for what you owed.

Your use of Rip-Off Reports to attempt to make us give you what is not rightfully yours reeks of extortion.

Once Jeff and his buddy, Nick Burrett, started this ripoff report thing you just jumped on the bandwagon. So easy for you to slander behind the anonymity of the internet.

Well, you and I are in the same counrty, subject to the same rules of litigation, and if you thought you had a valid claim you should have taken it to the county court, where it belonged. Of course, you would have had to prove you were ripped off. You wouldn't be able to simply file this BS and hide out behind the internet.

Mike has been arrested for parole violation after this parole officer recieved enough complaints from Mike's clients, with a little pressure from the DA's office. All of Mike's sites were shut down. He is awaiting trial on numerous lawsuits after his release, as well.

I'm not sure who this person is, but thier information is NOT correct.

While it IS true that I was sent to a Federal Prison Camp for BANK FRAUD (occured in 1998) and violated the conditions of my supervised release by SMOKING MARIJUANA it is FALSE that my business or my clients (or former clients) had anything to so with it.

Yes, I closed down my sites because it was tough to run them while doing 10 months for revocation of my supervised release HOWEVER I am NOW OFF OF PAPER and I am back out and am free to engage in business so whoever this is - GET YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT!!!!

I think people can tell by this candid rebuttal that I am telling the truth and YOU NOR YOUR CRONIES WHO TRIED TO DRIVE ME OUT OF BUSINESS HAD ANYTHING TO DO WITH MY DOWNFALL.