Just missed being here for under 24 hours and the blows up to page 47.
There are not as many as you think, you need to remember that this story that was sent to Shane was all started by employees that were terminated/left the company and yes that I tried to grow it too fast with some good people and some of the wrong people. My fault, I was the CEO. Businesses fail.
Incidentally, it took way too long, but all these employees are paid in full. It's no surprise that they day after the last one was paid the story came out.
I hope you realize this post was not merely about you owing people some money.
The bigger issues that have been brought forward by your former employees are the ones that need to be responded to and worked on. You should also realize that these past actions of yours can still entail legal investigation, should one or more of these ex employees decide to launch a formal complaint against you:
1) That you prey on new domainers
2) That you (mal)influence them and extract investments which would otherwise not be made
3) That you promise them the moon as return on investment
4) That you mistreat your employees
5) That you try to project a larger-than-life image of yourself in hopes of attracting victims
6) That you buy Fiverr comments to artificially inflate the value of your businesses
These are the bigger issues you need to issue clarification on / owe up to / and issue apology for. Going forward, I hope you mend your ways in mind, body and action.
All other
Done and all other legitimate complaints are being dealt with.
Much different, lessons learnt, I will learn to say no and be 100% truthful.
This post has actually been very helpful for me to make positive changes that are needed.
It's good to know that you seem to have settled all your debts, here at least. But, as we all know, even a thief, when caught, would offer back what he stole to obtain pardon for his life. I hope, you don't come out like that thief without this incident rousing a real positive change in your soul.
Please also take care to refund all other people out there about whom we still mayn't know but may have been conned out of their money by way of wrong influence.
Hopefully, no one will ever need to know.
I have my reasons and they aren't any of your business. This isn't about ruining a man but about reparations. I did what I had to do and he's doing what he has to do. We don't have to be enemies. We don't have to brawl in the streets.
They talked on the phone. They probably agreed on a deal between the two so Shane won't go to phase 2. Shane was aggressive the first day, but now sounds like a little puppy when referring to Adam. He must have received what he wanted "behind the scene".
Shane got nothing and was paid nothing, nor did he ever ask for anything.
Adam
My own suspicion: Part 2 never existed in the first place.
Shane, this was clearly not expected of you. When you promised, there was a part 2, you should have let people on here decide if it was worth revelation or not.
Now, it seems like Shane is the prosecution, Shane is the defence lawyer and Shane is the judge. Even though Adam says nothinng was paid you but noting the change in tone of your posts, people are bound to wonder if
one of your motivations behind this expose was not extracting a substantial pound of flesh from Adam.
What about the Part 2 victims who might have been influenced / conned? Now, you are decided by yourself that they are not influenced anymore? Or there was never a Part #2 and was only mentioned to blackmail Adam into submission?
Though Adam may have owed upto his financial defaults and is still to owe upto other larger issues brought forward, in the end, it will come out good for him if it forces a positive change in him.
But, with your Flippa thing, and now this amazingly fast behind-the-scenes settlement with Adam would go very far in discrediting you. People never trust a person who flip-flops too much and too often.
I only hope the Part 2 never really existed.
