fatboy
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Hate doing this but as the guy won't respond on Skype, I thought I would warn people about Riekal (Skype name Cobra).
He contacted me on 3 May saying he was having problems with the free Multi URL Shrinker I have on the website. I tested it and apart from the Google shrinker not working the rest did fine. Anyway, we chatted, he asked for Bit.ly bot - it wouldn't be a tough one so told him it would be 50 bucks to which he agreed, his actual words being: "Damn thta's it? Lets rock and roll".
Spent an hour putting it all together and sent him the bot to make sure it did what it said (along with a license). I saw him use the bot (connects to my server for license validation) so I know he used it.
Any way, here we are 6 days later and no payment - I cancelled his license but I guess he wanted it to run once (you will see in the Skype chat below that he had 1700 URLS to shorten)
So, just a warning that if you deal with this dead beat get some money up front - he will no doubt stitch you up royally and then ignore you.
To me it was an hour of my time - if the guy is that hard up for 50 bucks then I feel bad for him. To be honest, deadbeats like this twat are a dime a dozen.
Whether you deal with him or not is up to you - you have been warned
Skype logs:
Skype logs:
He contacted me on 3 May saying he was having problems with the free Multi URL Shrinker I have on the website. I tested it and apart from the Google shrinker not working the rest did fine. Anyway, we chatted, he asked for Bit.ly bot - it wouldn't be a tough one so told him it would be 50 bucks to which he agreed, his actual words being: "Damn thta's it? Lets rock and roll".
Spent an hour putting it all together and sent him the bot to make sure it did what it said (along with a license). I saw him use the bot (connects to my server for license validation) so I know he used it.
Any way, here we are 6 days later and no payment - I cancelled his license but I guess he wanted it to run once (you will see in the Skype chat below that he had 1700 URLS to shorten)
So, just a warning that if you deal with this dead beat get some money up front - he will no doubt stitch you up royally and then ignore you.
To me it was an hour of my time - if the guy is that hard up for 50 bucks then I feel bad for him. To be honest, deadbeats like this twat are a dime a dozen.
Whether you deal with him or not is up to you - you have been warned
Skype logs:
Skype logs:
[03/05/2012 05:52:57] Cobra: Hello
[03/05/2012 05:53:04] Cobra: I'm trying to use your MultiURLShortener bot
[03/05/2012 05:53:06] Cobra: and it's not working
[03/05/2012 05:53:31] Cobra: I have 1700 URLs, i tested witha list of 3 and none of the short URLs are in the short.txt file when it is done
[03/05/2012 05:53:36] Cobra: Please assist
[03/05/2012 06:13:00] rlekal: Hi custombot! I?d like to add you on Skype. Cobra
[03/05/2012 14:28:28] botnin ja.com - Fatboy: botnin ja.com - Fatboy has shared contact details with Cobra.
[03/05/2012 14:41:31] botnin ja.com - Fatboy: Hi - just tested it and it all works for me fine apart from the goo.gl shortener, looks like Google have changed something on their page so no short link is generated. Other 4 work fine
[03/05/2012 16:01:50] Cobra: Looks like Google was detecting it as a bot of some sort
[03/05/2012 16:02:18] Cobra: ARe you still around?
[03/05/2012 16:08:38] Cobra: Are you still there?
[03/05/2012 16:21:48] botnin ja.com - Fatboy: yup
[03/05/2012 16:22:04] Cobra: Sweet
[03/05/2012 16:22:07] botnin ja.com - Fatboy: its probably something like they changed the name of the submit button
[03/05/2012 16:22:29] Cobra: Yeah, but i was thinkign maybe I could get a price on a modified version of that bot
[03/05/2012 16:22:39] Cobra: All I want is Bit.ly or goo.gl
[03/05/2012 16:23:06] Cobra: Same exactly functionality, except all I want is ONE shortener service.
[03/05/2012 16:23:20] Cobra: Right now i have 1700 links that i need to shorten.
[03/05/2012 16:23:36] botnin ja.com - Fatboy: which one would you prefer OR would you like the option to choose one from a dropdown ?
[03/05/2012 16:23:49] Cobra: I'd prefer bit.ly
[03/05/2012 16:24:16] Cobra: Also, it'd be nice to be able to login to MY bit.ly account, so that the links will show up there, and I can disable the public stats
[03/05/2012 16:24:49] botnin ja.com - Fatboy: I can take a look - I normally charge 50 bucks.
[03/05/2012 16:25:54] Cobra: Damn thta's it? Lets rock and roll
[03/05/2012 16:25:54] Cobra: lol
[03/05/2012 16:26:06] botnin ja.com - Fatboy: knew I should of said 500
[03/05/2012 16:26:15] Cobra: hahaha
[03/05/2012 16:26:16] botnin ja.com - Fatboy: give me an hour or so then
[03/05/2012 16:26:47] Cobra: Okay.
[03/05/2012 16:27:40] botnin ja.com - Fatboy: will give you a shout when its done
[03/05/2012 16:27:47] Cobra: ok
[03/05/2012 16:27:56] botnin ja.com - Fatboy: you take a look and see if you are happy with it, then we do the money thing only if you are happy
[03/05/2012 16:28:38] Cobra: good deal
[03/05/2012 16:29:51] Cobra: OH
[03/05/2012 16:29:53] Cobra: and one more thing
[03/05/2012 16:29:58] Cobra: Time delay
[03/05/2012 16:30:22] Cobra: Bit.ly will rate limit you if you're not careful about that
[03/05/2012 16:30:52] botnin ja.com - Fatboy: I can do that - do you want to be able to change the delay or do you want something hardcoded?
[03/05/2012 16:31:17] botnin ja.com - Fatboy: And do you want the bot to select random bitly domains to shorten with
[03/05/2012 16:31:52] Cobra: Nah, it should always just use bit.ly
[03/05/2012 16:32:01] botnin ja.com - Fatboy: no worries - makes it easier for me
[03/05/2012 16:32:07] Cobra: and um, i guess maybe have the option, maybe a few options.
[03/05/2012 16:32:27] botnin ja.com - Fatboy: ok
[03/05/2012 16:32:35] Cobra: Like maybe 1s - 3s - 5s - 10s
[03/05/2012 16:32:55] botnin ja.com - Fatboy: wicked - will stick that in
[03/05/2012 16:33:13] Cobra: awesome
[03/05/2012 16:33:21] Cobra: Do you do other web coding as well?
[03/05/2012 16:33:37] Cobra: like PHP/MySQL/JS/jQ
[03/05/2012 16:33:51] botnin ja.com - Fatboy: I do a bit of PHP / MySQL - got mates that do JS/JQ
[03/05/2012 16:39:37] Cobra: cool
[03/05/2012 17:53:27] botnin ja.com - Fatboy: u there fella?
[03/05/2012 17:53:42] Cobra: yeah
[03/05/2012 17:53:48] botnin ja.com - Fatboy: incoming bot.....
[03/05/2012 17:53:55] Cobra: kk
[03/05/2012 17:54:06] *** botnin ja.com - Fatboy sent Bitly.zip ***
[03/05/2012 17:54:23] botnin ja.com - Fatboy: that includes your license file again - put them both in the same folder and you should be sorted
[03/05/2012 17:54:36] botnin ja.com - Fatboy: just tested it on a 20 link list and it worked ok - hope it works for you
[03/05/2012 17:54:43] Cobra: cool
[03/05/2012 17:54:54] Cobra: i have tgo go get food and have a meeting
[03/05/2012 17:54:54] Cobra: but
[03/05/2012 17:55:01] Cobra: I'll tet it today
[03/05/2012 17:55:03] Cobra: on another note..
[03/05/2012 17:55:12] Cobra: after this is dine. i have another bot i want you to amek
[03/05/2012 17:55:14] Cobra: make
[03/05/2012 17:55:18] Cobra: a Tumblr Posting bot
[03/05/2012 17:55:32] botnin ja.com - Fatboy: no worries, see how you like that one first
[03/05/2012 17:55:35] botnin ja.com - Fatboy: then we can chat
[03/05/2012 17:55:39] Cobra: I want to post to tumbler like every 10 minutes of every day
[03/05/2012 17:55:39] Cobra: lol
[03/05/2012 17:55:46] botnin ja.com - Fatboy: nice
[03/05/2012 17:55:56] Cobra: or maube every 9-13 minutes
[03/05/2012 17:56:01] Cobra: so it wont look so 'botish'
[03/05/2012 17:56:25] botnin ja.com - Fatboy: we can slap a random timer that does something between 9 and 13
[03/05/2012 17:57:36] botnin ja.com - Fatboy: if the bot works for you - just fire the 50 to xxxxxx@botnin ja.com (thats if I am not about
[03/05/2012 21:05:48] botnin ja.com - Fatboy: Forgot to say - the license is set to run once, so after you have run the bot one it will stop working. If yo need extra time, shout
[05/05/2012 09:45:25] botnin ja.com - Fatboy: Hey fella - was that bot okay for you?
[08/05/2012 08:19:13] botnin ja.com - Fatboy: Dude - do you want this Bit.ly bot or not?
[21:52:19] botnin ja.com - Fatboy: Guessing you don't want this bot then - thanks for wasting an hour so of my time dude
[21:57:40] botnin ja.com - Fatboy: ok fella, have it your way - tried messaging you over the last few weeks to be ignored. Shit List thread starting up at BHW
