Lost $4,000 to a scam development firm22 Apr 2007 03:24 pm
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.
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April 22nd, 2007 at 5:13 pm
Heya Mike,
Sorry to hear,
To really get the word out, submit to social sites,
Digg / Reddit/ Stumble Upon, everything
Even try Tech Crunch
April 24th, 2007 at 10:32 am
That monumentally sucks. I just went to your site and read it. You know you’re already 3rd in Google for “Carbonon”? A shame it won’t get you the money back, but try not to lose any sleep over it, you know?
April 25th, 2007 at 10:09 pm
Any tips on how to avoid this in the future? (scamming in general, legitimizing the contract, etc)?
April 26th, 2007 at 2:20 pm
I’m trying a bunch of different way to get my money back. I filed a complain with the local police in their town and also with an http://www.nasscom.in who someone suggested at DigitalPoint.
Im still hoping that once the scam site gets to #1 they might change their tune.
As for tips, I would definetely research the company your going to use. I would also recommend not paying anything upfront and nothing until they are at least 50% finished.
May 4th, 2007 at 10:42 am
I am sorry that an indian company did this.sue em like hell…they bought disgrace to the indian software industry.
September 8th, 2007 at 6:49 am
good find! they jsut sent me an offer for $5k which i was skeptical about, but after reading this i have no doubts on what to expect!
thanks for saving me the time!
i don’t have a grudge against indian companies at all, but i’ve previously encountered a few indian half-baked programming companies…not that it’s a trend, but definitely not a coincidence.
generally if you pay peanuts, you get monkeys