Lost $4,000 to a scam development firm

[Mikez006]

About a year ago I had hired a firm (Carbonon - carbonon.com) to create a site for me. 11 months have now passed and the site is no where near complete. I fired them 2 days ago and requested a 50% refund. They refused. So I have created another site, http://www.carbonon-scammers.com where I have written a review of their service. You can read the full story there.

If you wish to help me out, please comment on this on your blog linking to http://www.carbonon-scammers.com with the text “Carbonon” or “Carbonon Tech”. I want http://www.carbonon-scammers.com to show up as #1 site whenever someone searches for their company name. Thanks.

 

[Raider]

There is always two sides to a story, if you get Carbonon to come on the Forum and tell there side, I'll comment on it.

 

[XSV]

Why did you let this go 11 months before taking action? What were the original terms for this?

 

[Mikez006]

The project was sort of a side project and I wan't really in a rush, so the fact that it was taking longer than expected wasn't a huge issue up until Feb when they just flat out stopped working on it. I sent them an email March 2nd stating the site must be finished by the end of April. They agreed.

But by April 20th I saw they hadn't done anything and I fired them.

They originally told be by October, November at the latest, it would be complete.

 

[Tia Wood]

I read your website and the part where you get an error message. I should be able to fix that for you. At no charge of course. PM sent.

 

[actnow]

I see these guys listed on their site.

Are they the ones you were dealing with?
Roshan J Kuriyan
Arun J Ambat

I hope you get your site completed.

 

[weeps]

The day after I demanded a refund and before I had changed the password to the site Carbonon edited something in the database which now produces an access denied message to the MySQL database.

The error itself is just a authentication failed message for MySQL, which my guess is because you changed the password yourself and didn't update the configuration file for the scripts.