Dispute Against Smurf
Steam: https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198062801659
Discord: SirSmurfzalot#7511
Gmodstore: https://www.gmodstore.com/users/76561198062801659
Hello gmodstore!
I would like to share my situation with one indecent person. This was lasted for about 5-6 months, so I lose my patience now. Here’s story: est. in June, dude messaged me and offered to work with him, he wanted to upgrade his server and evolve it. That was time, when ETH 2.0 appeared or something like that, mining started to ruin. I don’t really care about this crypto things, I only use it to buy stuff. So, he offered me videocard/month as payment for my work. 3080-3090, it was costed 2k$ at moment he offered me that. I said yeah why not, that’s a good deal. But he said he need to be sure that I’m capable of this work or smth before sending card (he said he will send it in advance, which I think fair regarding my reputation and story. About 3 years of working in gmod without any scam). He gave me few tasks - optimize his server and content size, make a new HUD and some bug fixing. His server was full of unoptimized addons, so I reduced content size from 2 gb to 1.1 gb just reducing texture size, but there was like tons of them. Then, I made HUD and I talked with him about optimization and advised to remake server from scratch, that wouldn’t be longer than re-writing existing code, but result would be much better. He agreed for that, so I started to make gamemode that would be used as base for undertale and base for future servers. I planned to make it in 1-2 months, if I receive payment. Here's imgur album with screenshots of part of steam conversation, https://imgur.com/a/GD4ODun it's starting from 4 jule
However he was feeding me with breakfasts for 4 months so I wasn’t worked properly for free. I had showing him progress, screenshos, explanaitions.
Month ago he said he sent card, but no receipt, no track number. Nothing. I was asking to take track number for month. He was saying “yeah”, “yeah”, “sure” and still not a single proof he really did that. If you send 1k$ item to someone, are you not taking track number too? I really doubt. This part and finish is here: https://imgur.com/a/gOFD50s
I want to tell y’all to not work with that dude, he’s probably lied about everything. So I require payment for my work I sent him (HUD and content size optimization) + compensation for my wasted time. I think 200$ would be fair and we can close this dispute. Or he will provide track number + give me compensation and we will continue work. Otherwise, I have his Undertale RP server, which I will sell, I don’t care about that.
I understand that he might not want to provide payment, but why he saying that he will do that and not doing? He could just say like "hey dude I won't work with you anymore" and don't fuck my brain for months.
UPD: Smurf contacted me, we're currently solving issue
UPDUPD: We didn't met any conclusion. I will sell his server.
Well he sounds like a muppet, hopefully your work paid off! Maybe not in a financial way but in the form of Knowledge.
If something sounds to good to be true it's probably a scam, but also you've probably learnt new things in this period of time.
Anyways don't let stuff like this bring you down! Stay strong and keep at it.
Much love :)
Thanks for kind words! However, I will still finish my work and sell it to other persons, probably will do even more. It's almost finished so it won't be a problem. However it's strange because I had business with him before that and all went good. He bought dystopianrp server before. I dunno why is he acted like that, he literally could just say to me, that he don't want to work with me and I would be ok.