Copy and paste of my post in Gabs' thread:
"Okay, well time for a critique of Gabs service after several months:
At first some of my sites were improving, while others were either staying the same, or dropping a bit. I had hired him to work on 8 sites. Now about 3 months or so after starting his service, EACH of my sites was penalized for the blog spamming that he did. Not only did Gabs assure me this could never happen, he also assured me with a money back guarantee that my sites would increase and stay on the top of the first page after a few weeks, or a month. Obviously, now that I was penalized I'm hanging out on page 6-7 for the major keywords and am losing thousands of dollars a month now because of this.
I paid Gabs on December 23rd and December 24th, and found out about the penalty on december 24th, when I then cancelled my subscriptions to Gabs service. He refuses however to give me a refund.
Conversation December 24th:
(1:46:10 PM) vibhu gauba: Sir, i just called my accountant to issue the refund its 1 am here he was asleep.
(1:46:23 PM) vibhu gauba: You please cancell the subscription
(1:46:26 PM) phillychzsteak: you dont know how to do it yourself?
(1:46:27 PM) vibhu gauba: I am talking to him
(1:46:30 PM) phillychzsteak: its a simple few clicks in paypal
(1:47:22 PM) vibhu gauba: Please cancell the subscription and let me know
(1:47:29 PM) phillychzsteak: i cancelled both subscriptions
(1:47:29 PM) vibhu gauba: so i an put that on file
(1:47:35 PM) vibhu gauba: Yes please
(1:47:39 PM) phillychzsteak: done
(1:47:53 PM) phillychzsteak: now simply go to the payments.. click on details.. and at the bottom you should be able to issue a refund
(1:47:55 PM) phillychzsteak: please do that for both
(1:49:13 PM) vibhu gauba: Sir i dont have the login to the business account i have asked to come onlie
(1:49:50 PM) phillychzsteak: ok ill be back soon
(1:49:57 PM) phillychzsteak: expecting a refund before i return though.. thank you
(1:50:03 PM) vibhu gauba: It will be refudned
(1:50:13 PM) phillychzsteak: thank you
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(2

31 PM) phillychzsteak: so you left, and no refund, great
--------------------------------------------------------------- December 25th:
(12/25/2009 12

51 PM) innovative_tech_asr: No i have not
(12/25/2009 12

59 PM) innovative_tech_asr: I had been in touch with google today
(12/25/2009 12

04 PM) innovative_tech_asr: But they were off
(12/25/2009 12

13 PM) innovative_tech_asr: I will have a complete review sent
(12:29:23 PM) phillychzsteak: i dont want a review
(12:29:26 PM) phillychzsteak: i stopped your service
(12:29:28 PM) phillychzsteak: i want a refund
(12:29:38 PM) phillychzsteak: on the 2 payments i sent you yesterday and the day before
(12:29:52 PM) phillychzsteak: since thats for the month to come, and im cancelling your service
(12

34 PM) phillychzsteak: i dont want you to do any more work
(12

36 PM) phillychzsteak: just give me a refund
(12

30 PM) phillychzsteak: ...
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(12

52 PM) phillychzsteak: Well, here's whats going to happen. Either you can give me a refund now, as I paid you $125 and $218.50 over the past 2 days for work that you wont be doing as I have cancelled your services (proof of the payments and subscription cancellations are here: (insert screenshot of paypal account). or I will file a chargeback, get my money back, and then make VERY public that you are unethically keeping my money which you haven't earned as I've stopped your services.
(12:49:25 PM) phillychzsteak: now, regardless of the fact that your blog spamming ruined my sites ranks or not, you should be refunding me these 2 payments quickly.. and if you found out its your blog spamming that ruined my sites ranks, thats when you should be refunding me for more than just these 2 payments, but I'm not requiring that of you because it's the past.. and thats my mistake for hiring a company that doesn't do legitimate link building. Either way, refund me the $343.50 now.
---------------------------------- Dec 26th (shortly before making this post):
(1:42:18 PM) phillychzsteak: hello..
(1:42:54 PM) phillychzsteak: i know you received my messages..
(1:42:57 PM) phillychzsteak: im not sure what you're waiting for
(1:47:32 PM) phillychzsteak: .........
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What it all boils down to is Gabs should be issuing a refund to me for the payments I made to him 3 days ago and 2 days ago because its for services to be completed in the upcoming month, it was not a payment for services already done in the past.. since I cancelled his services, it is extremely unethical for him to keep my money.
Therefore, if Gabs does not give me a refund, I obviously can safely say stay away from Gabs and his service.. I'm sure he has done good things for some peoples sites, but I've seen plenty of bad reviews, and here is mine.
Gabs, I want my refund. You're lucky I'm not hounding you for a refund on all of the money, since I've been paying you more than $600 a month to sabotage my sites.
You're obviously going to come back with your witty remarks, as I've seen you do for every negative post that's been made here against you, but no matter what you say, it doesn't excuse you from not sending me a refund.
I will keep everybody else here posted on if he actually does issue the refund to me, but don't hold your breath. "