[Asterisk-biz] PRESTON GARRISON - PLEASE RETURN MY MONEY

[Jerry Fan]

$500.00 was in fact pre-payment towards a month's worth of services. Are 
there forums for discussing and rating the reputation of VoIP service 
providers? Wouldn't be too difficult to put together.

On 8/2/05, Storm D. J. Petersen <stormp at telus.net> wrote:
> 
> I ½ agree with you. I think it's important to expose bad business on here.
> Prevent other people from getting burned from unscrupulous providers. I
> think it might have been better if you didn't make the message as personal
> as you did though. I would of described the situation and the company.
> That's just my 2 cents. I'm sure their will be many people who have voip
> services or own voip providers on this list who fear the public exposure
> that we can give and will moan about it.
> 
> Good luck with your problem.
> 
> S.
> ________________________________________
> From: asterisk-biz-bounces at lists.digium.com
> [mailto:asterisk-biz-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Jerry Fan
> Sent: Monday, August 01, 2005 11:49 PM
> To: trixter http://www.0xdecafbad.com
> Cc: Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion
> Subject: Re: [Asterisk-biz] PRESTON GARRISON - PLEASE RETURN MY MONEY
> 
> Believe me, I felt so disgusted at myself while creating the first post. 
> It
> was brought to my attention that I had made grammatical and spelling 
> errors
> by someone a list member. So I dragged myself through creating a corrected
> second post. I am twice disgusted at myself but I feel it is important to
> share my experience with others so that they are better informed. If I can
> prevent one single member from experiencing the grief and anguish I felt, 
> it
> will have made all this effort worthwhile -- including the time reading 
> and
> responding to your post.
> On 8/1/05, trixter http://www.0xdecafbad.com <trixter at 0xdecafbad.com >
> wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-08-01 at 23:04 -0700, Jerry Fan wrote:
> > Sorry about the previous post - it may have been confusing.I was so
> > pissed off I didn't bother to check spelling and grammar.Here is the
> > intended post:
> >
> > -------------------
> > On May 20, 2005 I sent PRESTON GARRISON an initial deposit of $500.00
> > USD for toll-free DID service.PRESTON had mentioned that HIS partner
> > was well established in the VoIP industry and could easily handle my
> > simple VoIP needs.Since then, I have sent numerous e-mail, instant
> > messenger, and telephone messages inquiring about the status of ANY OF
> > THE SERVICES I ordered.PRESTON delivered absolutely NOTHING.
> > Finally on July 12, I requested that PRESTON return the money.
> > PRESTON assured me that the check had already been sent to my partner.
> > We have seen no check.I repeatedly asked PRESTON to directly deposit
> > the funds into my account the same way I deposited into HIS account
> > with no success.
> >
> > PRESTON please send my money back -- it has been over three months
> > now.
> > -------------------
> 
> I am unsure why this needed to be corrected here.Once is one thing but
> twice is just a bit over the top.I should not be privy to this
> communication, the only reason I can see that you are posting this here,
> twice, is to either get some level of revenge against preston (whomever
> he is, and no that is not an invitation to tell me) or to bad mouth him
> in public in an attempt to make sure that anything he does is tainted.
> 
> This sounds more like a personal matter.And to clarify I was not
> asking for an explanation, all questions or inferences of questions are
> rhetorical, I not only do not require an answer nor do I want one.I
> just want some thought on why this was done.
> 
> --
> Trixter http://www.0xdecafbad.com Bret McDanel
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