I don't take kindly to those that harm this site, or its members. Financial or otherwise. If you do us wrong, we're posting about it. We care about out community, about our members.
Situation:
On July 2 of this year, Mr. Sapsford registered for the forum as beatnik57. Later that day, he upgraded to upgraded to Premium Member. Logs show he visited the site several times in July. He never asked a question, just read lots of stuff. That happens. We consider Premium Membership to be a donation, and often members do too.
In September, more than 60 days later, he filed a fraudulent "did not authorize" Paypal claim. We responded with proof.
Weeks later, Paypal allowed the chargeback! I'm thinking that Paypal told him "no", so he went the CC route instead.
Not only did we lose his membership fee, but were hit with a chargeback fee larger than the membership cost itself. So this son of b!tch negated the funds paid by 2-3 paying members! And that's we we're making this post.
He never emailed us.
He never PMd us.
He never replied to emails.
He never replied to PMs.
Yet, just a few weeks later, on Facebook, he announced a "grand opening" of new photo services. What do you want to bet he came here to read a lot of our info (and probably other sites, too) to get what he needed for this "business". It happens, we know it does. But usually it doesn't directly cost us money.
A person like this should be entirely avoid. Scummy people do more than just 1 scummy thing.
Details on scammer:
This person is supposedly a photographer, though mostly scanning photos/negatives (and possibly with consumer Epson flatbed scanners, hardly pro work).
His site gives "Internal Server Error" for months now.
Not sure who "kathleen" is, but that email was attached to the official Paypal info.
Conclusion
It takes a special kind of asshole to do what he did. And for $20 of all things.
... (And for us, $60.
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