In Oct 2008 I hired John MIller of Terabyte Hosting and Dosdawg to build a website called Scootermates.com for me with Boonex software. This website was to be a FOR PROFIT website

just wondering how if the site is for profit, i would have anything to do with that, i can put up the website, cannot make the website make you money.


with banner advertising and Adword type advertising down the sides of the pages in the website.

this was explained to you in detail regarding the adverts and see more banner expletives. you as the site admin would need to obtain that type of information. i showed you that the banners section in the admin panel would work for a portion of what you were seeking, and also showed you in admin how to create custom blocks to be able to place other adverts into. that was not my scope of work to provide banners to display on your site.


The website also was supposed to include a listing directory with links from motor scooter clubs from around the world.

this was just part of a wish list, never was charged for this feature, and the work was neither promised nor suggested that it could or would be done. it was discussed and the agreement was that i would look into the solution. it didnt exist, no way for me to provide it.

I also paid him $699.00 in advance to host this website for a year

this is about the only true and factual part of this entire post. barry did pay for a years hosting. the site was hosted, it was never down, and there was never a complaint about the hosting services.


and I paid him for software that covered other required functions.

any and all intangibles that were purchased on behalf of barry were purchased, installed and a training session provided. as you can see there was no charge for consultation, and if barry needed daily hand holding, which is exactly what he was after, then obviously the price would have to be more.

John Miller told me that he could put this website together in 3-4 weeks.

time frame was based on initial scope of work, not a scope of work that changed daily. also the fact that barry would call me daily and use up 1-2 hours of my time on the phone talking about his hopes and dreams of what the site was going to do for him and his moped riders united association, which was never charged for. when i say his scope of work changed, trust me it changed two to three times a week. kinda hard to provide something in three weeks that took 9 weeks to type up a scope on?

After waiting aprox 6 months I was very upset and I posted in the forums about how John Miller took my hard earned money and never completed my website as promised.

you posted a lie, you stated that you had been charged for work that was not completed. even with this post you make a misleading statement, that you paid for something, that was not delivered. the website was completed from a programmatical standpoint, as mentioned above it was not my intention to administer the site and place your banners and adverts on the site, this was your responsibilty not mine.

John then wrote me an E-mail admitting that he treated me badly

yes barry please post where i stated i treated you "badly" i said you could have used a little more attention. i never said i treated you badly. LIE.

(I Have It Available To Post) and he told me that if I retracted my truth exposing forum post about him he would quickly finish building my website once and for all.

you wanted me to show you all of the rayz widgets that were installed and how to use them, it wasnt that they werent there, it was the fact you were unknowing of the application and didnt know how to navigate the app. had nothing to do with the work not being done. LIE

ALSO he charged me this time over $700.00 for another years worth of hosting for a website that he never completed!

barry i didnt charge you anything. you stated you wasnt going to pay for hosting, the hosting account was terminated amicably, and your account was set to inactive on the billing application. it was your responsibilty to follow up with your paypal settings, and remove any recurring payments that you were no longer interested in engaging in. paypal sent the subscription payment barry, i didnt charge you anything. again, software that was overwhelming for comprehension.



He also lost a flash header with images that he himself had installed on my website. This header cost me all together around $500.00. How could my flash header be lost if he was backing up my website on his Terabyte Hosting server as promised in my hosting agreement with him. That is unless he never backed up his server!

this one was funny, i lost a flash header, it fell off the site and landed on my secondary hard drive and the wind came by and blew it away. i lost a flash header. amazing. the header was there when you told me it was missing, so obviously this was something to do with your home computer, and not being able to view flash. had nothing to do with me losing anything or not backing up anything. i can assure you all sites are backed up, those who opt for that feature, and many sites have been restored from those backups, when it was necessary to do so. so again barry LIE.

When I demanded that he refund the over $700.00 I also demanded to be refunded all of the money I had already paid to him for the still not completed website after over a year of waiting.


the payment was processed on halloween. of course i had other family engagements and really didnt have the time to deal with barry and his pipe dreams. it was also a fact that barry wrote to boonex and in his writing said i had ripped him off for the $700.00, when in fact it was a saturday afternoon, prior family engagements, and just wasnt available to kinder-sit with barry. LIE


John Miller first refused to refund the latest amount of over $700.00.

never once refused to refund the money barry, you said you would see me in court and i suggested that we just keep the seven hundred to help pay for legal fees, because you would be getting sued for defamation and slander. and i thought it was funny to hear your wimpering voice when i made that suggestion. so again barry LIE


He also pulled my still unfinished website totally off of his server and off of the internet.

barry, get this concept, call the power company there where you live and inform them that you are no longer going to pay your light bill, and see how long the meter stays attached to your house.

After I threatened legal action, today he refunded the latest charged amount of money for hosting a website that no longer exists. However he still refuses to refund me for the last years hosting for the website he never finished and for the software I paid for that has also gone to waste since he pulled my website off of his server and the internet.
I am not finished with John Miller and since he still has well over a $1000.00 of my money that he refuses to refund to me I will do what ever it takes to get my hard earned money!

you are correct, i refuse to refund money that was paid for services rendered.
1. was the site online for a year - yes
2. were the mods purchased and installed - yes
3. were you hand-held to learn to use the script - yes
4. do i have any further obligations to you - NO

so as you see barry, you have a convuluted story and it is not appreciated that you state half truths or out and out lies.

Regards,
DosDawg