As I have posted here before, Dave Daoust from Rejuvinet has been retained to provide web design services more than 2 months ago. He failed to turn in one single piece of work - zero templates, zero graphics. He also promised almost a month ago to refund the sum of $275 for the lack of service. He has also failed to do so to this day. Below are his empty promises as written by the scam artist himself - furthermore, after Daoust assured me that he would refund me the money as soon as I drop the PayPal complaint, he failed to do so...another baldface lie.
Those of you considering doing business with this guy please reconsider - you WILL be scammed out of your money. You can't really believe that for 2 months he has been unable to put together $275 and give me a refund for the NOTHING he's done for me!!
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Last warning...
5 messages
Virgil Vaduva <vvaduva@gmail.com> Wed, Sep 1, 2004 at 9:15AM
To: Dave Daoust <daved@rejuvinet.com>
Dave,
If I do not receive a payment from you today, I am following up with
these actions:
- reopen PayPal complaint and sue them in small claims
- contact the FBI and file a complaint with them
- contact the Montreal police and file a complaint with them
- make all your e-mails public on all the Mambo websites and forums so
that everyone can see how you steal money from people
- virgil
Dave Daoust <daved@rejuvinet.com> Wed, Sep 1, 2004 at 1:47PM
To: Virgil Vaduva <vvaduva@gmail.com>
Virgil,
Believe me when I tell you the pressure's on. :-)
Look, I am doing everything I can to get your refund out to you. These
threats you're making, while I'm sure would seem "effective", will do very
little since I am not - I repeat, NOT - trying to steal anything.
But that's besides the point - I am doing everything I possibly can to try
and bring in money - it's just not happening for some reason. I've added
new templates to the site, and no one bought any yet. I've made template
packages, selling 5 templates for the price of two - no one bought anything
yet. I set up a "Template Partner Program" membership, giving people not
only a 30% discount on every template bought from our site, but a licence to
resell them on their own and make a profit.
Nothing's happened yet! I am trying my best, Virgil - I need to prove to
you that you are wrong, thinking I am trying to rip you off.That's not what
I am trying to do, and I am going absolutely crazy trying to prove that to
you.
Go take a look at the site and see what's transpired in the past week or
so - all the effort I have been trying to make to bring in some income.
I've even considered stooping as low as to send a bulk email to every
registered member of my site and try to get them to buy *something* - SPAM
is not one of the methods I think of when marketing my site, but I've
actually considered it...
It's 1:45 local time - I've got emails out everywhere right now... I'll
stay in touch as much as I can. You need to know, Virgil, that I am not out
to rip you or anyone else off. I'm in business to earn a living just as
much as the next guy, and that living hasn't produced anything in more than
3 weeks. I'm feeling the hit harder than anyone else, no matter how hard I
work at it.
I'll be in touch as soon as I can.
Dave
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Virgil Vaduva <vvaduva@gmail.com> Wed, Sep 1, 2004 at 5:15PM
To: Dave Daoust <daved@rejuvinet.com>
Dave,
I ran across yet more evidence that you are lying. PayPal just
informed me that you apparently initiated a payment for me, but as
soon as I dropped the complaint against you, you cancelled the
payment. Very nice of you to do that...
- virgil
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Dave Daoust <daved@rejuvinet.com> Wed, Sep 1, 2004 at 5:25PM
To: Virgil Vaduva <vvaduva@gmail.com>
What???
I didn't initiate a payment at all - I couldn't... I wasn't in a position
to do that since your complaint at the time had frozen the account at a
negative balance. I can't initiate anything like that with a negative
balance...
Most likely, after reviewing everything in the past year, they may have
confused two money requests from me when we first started discussing the
project - both of which I eventually cancelled when we made alternative
arrangements. I have quoted those transactions below, just to prove I am
NOT lying. If you look closely at the "Status" you'll see that they are
marked cancelled. The only payment request I have FROM you is the one you
sent yesterday, which is still pending as I am waiting for funds to come in
(I am hoping that a payment for a logo I am doing for one client and a
template order for another will appear soon).
Not once, Virgil, have I tried to mislead you - regarding the project or the
refund. Hopefully the cancelled payment requests below will clear this
latest accusation up for you.
Dave
+++++++++ Quoted directly from PayPal +++++++++++
Money Request Details
Request Sent
From:
RejuviNET Marketing Network
To:
vvaduva@gmail.com
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Amount:
$320.00 USD
Status:
Cancelled
Date Cancelled:
Jul. 21, 2004
Email Notice Sent to Recipient?:
Yes
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Subject:
Site Transition - Deposit Request
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Note:
Hi Virgil,
As mentioned in my previous email, I am sending this invoice to
block out a set amount of time to complete your site transition project.
Remember - this reserved block is only valid for 36 hours, after
which we will cancel this RFP and remove the reservation on the 14-day time
period, opening it up for other projects.
After completing your deposit, please send any graphics or
images you wish to be part of your new layout, as well as some sort of idea
how you would like the template to work (2 columns or 3, color schemes,
etc...)
Looking forward to starting your project.
Sincerely,
Dave Daoust, Owner
RejuviNET Marketing Network
Money Request Details
Request Sent
From:
RejuviNET Marketing Network
To:
Virgil Vaduva (virgil@newave.net)
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Amount:
$320.00 USD
Status:
Cancelled
Date Cancelled:
Jul. 23, 2004
Email Notice Sent to Recipient?:
Yes
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Subject:
Project Reservation/Deposit
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Note:
UPDATE:
I am resending this to a second address in case the first one
was missed. In the original messages I'd mentioned a 36-hour reservation
window in which my staff could not schedule projects pending the
confirmation of this project - that window expires in a little more than 6
hours, and I hadn't heard anything back yet. I can only assume you hadn't
received the first set of messages as I would probably have expected a
"think I'll wait" at the very least... :-) Hence this friendly
reminder/resending. Please advise of how you would like to proceed so I can
advise my staff. Thanks.
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Hi Virgil,
As mentioned in my previous email, I am sending this invoice to
block out a set amount of time to complete your site transition project.
Remember - this reserved block is only valid for 36 hours, after
which we will cancel this RFP and remove the reservation on the 14-day time
period, opening it up for other projects.
After completing your deposit, please send any graphics or
images you wish to be part of your new layout, as well as some sort of idea
how you would like the template to work (2 columns or 3, color schemes,
etc...)
Looking forward to starting your project.
Sincerely,
Dave Daoust, Owner
RejuviNET Marketing Network
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Dave Daoust <daved@rejuvinet.com> Wed, Sep 1, 2004 at 5:50PM
To: Virgil Vaduva <vvaduva@gmail.com>
Further to my previous reply...
After sending you my last message, I went through every transaction
including the dispute...
The dispute was initiated 17 days after the payment was received, and
cancelled 5 days after it was initiated. On the page that details the
payment itself, there is a link to "Refund Payment" which is valid for up to
60 days from the date the payment was made (July 23). We are still well
within that timeframe, and this will be the button/link I use to send your
refund.
Virgil, the only cancellations related to your matter are the two RFPs I
sent that were eventually cancelled because we'd made other arrangements
(namely half down with balance on delivery), and the cancellation of the
dispute itself. There is nothing else related to this matter.
I don't know what else I have to do to show you I am not as "devious" as you
seem to think I am.
Dave