Gimme My Money Man..I Want My Money Man!



I like the idea of changing the index.php to a notice then locking the account until he pays.

I'd give him a fair amount of time being doing that though.
 
Don't do anything more than remove the work you've done or you could get yourself into some shit that ain't worth the chump change he owes you.
 
this has been discussed in here before and totally backfired on the programmer / developer / etc. i won't link to the thread to bring it up, but just a heads up.
 
Do what I suggested. $150 might seem like chump change to some of these "ballers" but it's still money that can go towards your business.
 
efeezy said:
I did a job for a guy, a simple wordpress directory install that took all of a few hours to complete. The guy is a complete noob, fuckhead and didn't even know how to change his nameservers at GoDaddy. Anyway, he gave me all his hosting and domain passwords etc., I put the site together, he was loving it, everything was great.

I had originally told him that he could pay me after I finished the job (yeah I know that's my stupidity). It's not like it's a ton of money. He seemed like a stand up guy, but naturally, now I can't get him to respond to any emails and it's been a few weeks and no $$.

Now I could give a shit about the $150, but I still have the usernames and passwords to all his sites. I could just go in and delete the entire site from his server if I wanted to.

This is purely a hypothetical, but if someone wanted to shut this guys site down, what would be the easiest way to do it, with the least amount of footprint? Or is it wrong to even think about doing that type of thing to the poor bastard? I don't know, I'm just thinking out loud here.
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In before 5 years in federal pound me in the ass prison for tampering with a computer




good night sweet prince
 
I agree with Guerilla that seeking revenge is an energy drain.

However, you do have an easy opportunity to take back the work you have done which you were never paid for. So as others have said, the easiest thing would be to dismantle the work you have done and restore it to where it was before your work.

heh, or here's a neat gag... place this in the header of all of his pages:

<meta name=”robots” content=”noindex”>

Let him spend the next year 18 hours a day trying to get ranked in the engines, never knowing why he isn't showing up at all.

nah, just dismantle your work.

good luck
 
Come to think of it, I set up the free hosting account the guy is using for this site, because he was too brain dead to figure out how to do it. So technically the only thing he owns is the domain, which I set the nameservers to. I'm not tampering with his domain name..just the hosting account which I created and gave to him.
 
Just changed the index.php to a page that says "this site has been disabled due to nonpayment. please make payment to have site reinstated". Changed the password to the free hosting account, wordpress login and ftp.
 
I would have suggested installing inlinks to get a little of your coin back (eventually, in about two or three years) but it looks like I am too late to the party.
 
LotsOfZeros said:
QFT. But here's what I would do.
1) Write the money off, you're never going to get it
2) Log in and remove the work you did
3) Never respond to him again, ever. I wouldn't even respond to him if he said "OK I'll pay you" I would just move on knowing he will have to outsource it again to another sucker.
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Fool me once, strike one. Fool me twice, strike three. - Michael Gary Scott
 
The idiot probably uses the same password for his Paypal account. Try that and his contact email. Tip yourself handsomely.
 
Something isn't right here. This guy has no clue how to even point his nameservers, he's a total noob, and he likes what you did (or so he says), and he can't come up with $150?

I would just move your files off the box and disable the free hosting, and send him a quick email simply explaining the project has been completed and will be uploaded upon final payment, assume he blew you off, and move on. If something happened like he's traveling and just forgot, or hospitalized (doubtful I know) and he comes back to dickrolls and other immature crap, like Guerilla said, it just looks bad on your end.

$150 isn't worth a bad rep following you around. The good news is it was a cheap lesson for you. Always collect 50% up front for your jobs if you don't know the person, will let you know they're at least serious about the project and your time.
 
- Delete the site
- Email him telling him since he hasn't paid for your services, you're taking back your work until he pays
- ???
- Profit?
 
when I do design for people I tell them up front for non-payment I can take their site down. I retain shell passwords or make another administrator account on their host or something to where I can, but most of them don't know how to change that kind of thing
 
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