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Complaint Review: Raymond Martineau - Boynton Beach Florida

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  • Raymond Martineau 7820 Metro Drive Boynton Beach, Florida USA

Raymond Martineau Ray Martineau, Sensei Ray my worlds smartest ecard, dream team freedom, freelance scam, web design scam, refuses to pay for work, theft of service Boynton Beach Florida

*Consumer Comment: I heard about him too!

*Author of original report: You are still using my work... :)

*REBUTTAL Owner of company: Richard Hunting, Metrotechs, Bait & Switch and Added New Billing

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If you’re a freelancer, it’s important to protect yourself from untrustworthy clients which is why I always recommend having a signed contract, but sometimes, even a signed contract isn’t enough to keep people from taking advantage of your time and effort and stealing your money.


After being a freelancer for nearly 9 years, I have met my fair share of people who expect the world, but don’t want to pay for it. I have worked for people who write checks that I can’t cash and I have worked for people who, after several months of using the products and services rendered for them, decide they want their money back and claim a fraudulent chargeback, stating that the services were not rendered.


The practice of filing fraudulent chargebacks is common and if you provided services and receive a chargeback notice, it is considered Theft of Services in the State of Texas.


I want to inform you about a man name Raymond Martineau a.k.a “Sensei Ray” and his “company” calling themselves “Dream Team Freedom“. They want you to use their product called “My Worlds Smartest eCard“.


The owner of My World’s Smartest eCard, Raymond Martineau a.k.a “Sensei Ray” is trying to steal my time, money, and services. His email address is senseiray56@gmail.com and his phone number is 954-448-5951. Here is a link to a bio. whosatthetable.com/e-card.html – Here is a link to his LinkedIn page. Raymond Martineau LinkedIn –


I was hired by Raymond Martineau a.k.a “Sensei Ray” in December of 2016 to provide technical support services and website repairs for a broken website that had been built by another web designer and then transferred from one hosting server to another. The website transfer was done improperly and the website was damaged in the process.


Raymond Martineau a.k.a “Sensei Ray” and I signed a contract stating that I would repair the website within a 3 week time frame with half the payment due up front and the second half due upon project completion. After I got the website back online and provided well over 60 hours of support and service, I was paid for my time and I did not hear from Raymond Martineau a.k.a “Sensei Ray” regarding that particular website again until he decided he wanted his money back… 5 months later.


When Raymond Martineau a.k.a “Sensei Ray” came to me, his website did not work at all. The CSS would not load, the links were broken, and there were many other issues that needed to be sorted out. He complained of having to pay a lot of money to the previous designer, which should have been my sign to run right there. He explained why he needed a new designer and what work he needed done. I drew up a contract and we both signed it.


I repaired the website on the second week and was paid the final payment that same day, December 28, 2016. Yesterday, April 28 2017, I received an eMail from Square credit card processing stating that Raymond Martineau a.k.a “Sensei Ray” had requested a chargeback on the basis that the product or service was not rendered or rendered improperly. Again, this is 5 months after I began working with him.


I worked day and night for 2 weeks straight, including Christmas Day, to sort out the problems with his website at My World’s Smartest eCard. He called me every single day and we talked on the phone for hours upon hours. I had a 4 hour long face to face meeting with him and his wife and I also spent numerous days on the phone with his old web designer and web hosting company getting everything he needed completely sorted out so he could have total ownership of his website.


After I completed the website repairs on My Worlds Smartest eCard, Raymond Martineau a.k.a “Sensei Ray”, requested work to be done on another website he owns. I began to perform the work and when I sent him an invoice for my time he refused to pay the invoice and also refuses to return any phone calls or respond to emails about the money he currently owes me for my time.


The reason I am writing this is because I am tired of people hiring freelancers for work and then trying to get the product, service, and time for free. Every freelancer deserves to be paid for their work and no one is entitled a freelancer’s time, energy, effort, input, etc.  My goal is not to harm Raymond Martineau’s  reputation, he is doing that all on his own. My goal is to make sure that anyone who decides to do work for him will understand what they are getting themselves into. 


I am planning on taking Raymond Martineau a.k.a “Sensei Ray” to court over the matter as I feel he has not only stolen from me, but he is also using my work and still owes money from other work I did for him on another website he owns.

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#3 Consumer Comment

I heard about him too!

AUTHOR: Paul - (United States)

POSTED: Friday, August 24, 2018

He never pays freelancers! My cousin Rachel made a website for him. He promised he would pay her a map of (((REDACTED))), but didn't want to do that. Beware of it!

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#2 Author of original report

You are still using my work... :)

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POSTED: Wednesday, October 18, 2017

Your website did NOT work at all when you came to me. You paid half of the service fee up front and the second half when the work was completed. The payments were not only for the website, they were for every service I provided for you over the course of a month.  I even worked on Christmas day to make sure that your website was setup the way you wanted it and after 5 months of you using my work, you decided you wanted your money back. You're not a victim, you're a scam artist. 

When I decide to go through with the lawsuit against you, I will win in court. You did not buy a product from me, you hired me to provide a service. I have dealt with people like you before and I always win. See you in court.

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#1 REBUTTAL Owner of company

Richard Hunting, Metrotechs, Bait & Switch and Added New Billing

AUTHOR: Sensei Ray Martineau - (USA)

POSTED: Wednesday, October 18, 2017

Hello..."To whom it may concern"... My name is Ray Martineau known as "Sensei Ray" and I think you need to "know a little about me first" before you want to believe this or not from OWNER Richard Hunting @  www.Metrotechs.net  You can FaceBook me Under "Details About You" and you can Linkedin me also ...Obviously he got very upset when he found out "He lost the Case" of getting his money put back in his bank account and him being a Tech Person... fired back in every way he could "especially" his messages to me on my cell phone and texts if you can imagine... they were not nice...The Bank got both sides of the Story and He Lost.


You can obviously tell this was not his first time trying to pull over somthing over his clients...knowing how the Internet works...trying to hurt me in everyway like this...Putting me on "Ripoff Report"

Please realize also before you go on... this is the only one thing out on the World Wide Web... in someone trying to ruin my Reputation, Integrity  and Credibility etc...and by the way I am 65 years old.... and I hope you can put yourself in my shoes at this stage of my life being forced having to take this time to have to defend myself and by the way this is the First time to do something like this because of the way Social Media works...

I'm sure you know at this time in Life today anyone can put "ANTHING" out there on the Web...TRUE or NOT...and I want you to know living all my life up to this time being 65 years old makes me "Very Sad" the way the World is today!!!  So this is "My side of this Story" and I hope it "Makes Common Sense... and by the way Richard is a great Story Teller as you read his side... at his age!!! However "To whom this may concern"... of course you decide for yourself. 

It's Very Important for you to know I did get all my money back from the bank.. and I hope your know it is very difficult to get your money back after paying someone thru your Credit Card... Because the Bank wants "Many Documents of Proof" which I supplied them....of your story why you think you should get your money back.

THANK YOU.  

PS...Any more questions... feel more than free to reach out to me.

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