The MacPadd.com/David Free Ultimatum

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Put the f*ker into jail!!!
No, worse, community hours, work all the hours at $2 per hour, paying back all the money he has ripped off customers, and the time effort he wasted, and the stress he has caused to other individuals!

I believe bogus of his shitty excuses!

I've seen them 'sales'-men with them greedy eyes ! (Argh!)

Anyways, he definitely won't make a big business out of scamming people off.
Perhaps if there have been enough customers scammed, you could start a court session against him. Then he'll need to pay it all back...
There's no excuse for lying like that... He would have been better off, saying he wasn't going to send the item,
He would have been in as much trouble now, only now he's probably going through a stressful time too!
 
ha, ha, check this:
THG actually wanted a Free product... it was the Free MacPadd...

really, everyone that treats their customers like that needs to be flamed on the Web and taken down hard.
 
Oh, and if you're going to derank my post off the page, at least prove that you've got a real argument and reply instead of just saying "I don't like what you're saying whether it's right or wrong so NEGATIVE VOTES."
 
[citation][nom]Ramar[/nom]I understand how you've already handled criticisms of this whole thing, but I find this all to be incredibly unprofessional. Do understand that's just my opinion, but it seems to me that this is like CNN running a report that their camera supplier screwed them. You wouldn't see it there, so I'm not sure why I'm seeing it here. This is a news and hardware site.I appreciate the heads up on this company, but you know as well as I do that this is a personal thing and belongs on a personal blog like a national news outlet has. It's obvious we're all on your side with this, myself included, so I'm not sure why you feel that you need to defend yourself from his accusations.We said it when another editor brought politics into the mess, so I'm saying it about high-school level drama: keep it away from the front page.[/citation]

Well, we appreciate your support. But I have to point out that, the good thing about being online here, is that you have space to write. And, I can guarantee that if CNN was screwed repeatedly by a scamming camera supplier, people will definitely hear about it. MacPadd.com has screwed over more than just myself, several others have documented very similar experiences to me.

Obviously he needed to be detailed in his reports to demonstrate that no one should put up and bend over. If you paid, you deserve your product. And, this is a message for consumers and our readers in general: do not be afraid to step up to a harassing, arrogant, and otherwise dishonest vendor. File complaints, call local agencies. It's something that honest consumers who are screwed over intentionally, should never be afraid of.
 
[citation][nom]Ramar[/nom]Oh, and if you're going to derank my post off the page, at least prove that you've got a real argument and reply instead of just saying "I don't like what you're saying whether it's right or wrong so NEGATIVE VOTES."[/citation]

Someone needs a hug.
 
Thanks, Tuan, I appreciate the honest reply. It's your site, so do as you wish, I just respectfully disagree.

@ exfileme,

What can I say but lulz?
 
They need to catch him, convict him, then stick his head in a bucket and pull the trigger (if that sounds harsh, then don't scam people). What a waste of oxygen...
Or put him on a treadmill or cycle generator until he has produced one megawatt. The length of sentence is thus up to him. One Kw per day should be easy, and that's less than three years.
 
[citation][nom]that_aznpride101[/nom]so I did a quick search on Bing for MacPadd and found some interesting stuff.Gizmodo actually reviewed one of their products: http://gizmodo.com/5108595/macpadd [...] ing-reviewso i'm thinking this Free guy may have actually produced a product to get PR but then decided to stop. i also found the following:MacPadd's twitter: http://twitter.com/macpaddMacPadd has their own Youtube channel: http://www.youtube.com/macpadd[/citation]

Yeah, when I placed the order through his webiste, I placed it as Tuan Nguyen. So he may have thought I was just an individual making an order. I did not email him to ask for a sample. Most publications tend to email their respective PR people for samples.

But this product was at a cost I felt I could afford for myself even as a personal item to keep after review. Hence, that's why I chose to use my own money to pay for it. Unfortunately, that didn't blow over so well.

The thing that really gets me fired up, isn't really the lack of product or even the mysterious tracking number that never was. It's the fact that he chose to slam Tom's Hardware and me, instead of just giving me the damned number.

/ Tuan
 
[citation][nom]CoopCHennick[/nom]hahaha I'm loving the hate-responses on the blog[/citation]

Haha. CoopCHennick is right. Woah Tuan you should visit Free's blog. There's some really World War III hate-level responses over there.
 
[citation][nom]stravis[/nom]Don't be a douche on the phone.The customer doesn't care that you are trying to slip the meat to your wife by first liquoring her up.[/citation]
I can't click +1 enough 😛
Tom's only allows me to give it to you once /pun
 
[citation][nom]Ramar[/nom]Thanks, Tuan, I appreciate the honest reply. It's your site, so do as you wish, I just respectfully disagree.@ exfileme,What can I say but lulz?[/citation]

I respect your disagreement. I mean, i know everyone is entitled to an opinion. And I feel it's my responsibility as a journalist, and as a Tom's Hardware guy, to inform.

Putting myself out in the middle, will have some consequences. I have to reveal all my information in order to support my claims. This often times will backfire. But I felt that these risks were necessary to demonstrate to many readers that it is possible to fight back, and it is possible to win over bad businesses and scams.

It is never too late, and a victim should never simply give up. This is why I chose to go ahead and publish this. I've been screwed before, but at those times, I didn't have such detailed documentation to back myself up.

/ Tuan
 
Seriously, This Free individual is so going down. Tuan, I hope the chick he was trying to score why you were calling...is giving him some therapy for his own troubled being.

BTW Tuan, Your money has been refunded right? So that means you'll never going to receive the product? or a tracking number?
 
Tuan, should you ever experience something like this again. Hehe..share it, that way customers, clients and other people alike will notice and will get prevented about scamming businesses. Nice work with these articles.
 
Tuan,

I have a deep amount of respect of what you are doing.
There are several companies that will do similar things untill
you e-mail them, then they say they are on back order, but when
I bring up the BBB or legal actions they somehow apear in stock
the NEXT day and they ship it overnight.
(I find this happens most often with office supplying companies, check out ipaperlessoffice.com, somehow their reported "in stock" items are never IN STOCK)

More power to you sir! Teach him that either his lies and scamming or
poor business practices (lying about shipping a product that hasn't even
been created to ship) deserves this kind of scrutiny. The fact that H1N1
was even mentioned makes me wonder if he didn't just try to use an over-sensationalized public to try to sell a product.

The short is Tuan, you have both my best regards and best wishes, teach Mr. Free a lesson he won't soon forget.

 
[citation][nom]Athreex[/nom]Seriously, This Free individual is so going down. Tuan, I hope the chick he was trying to score why you were calling...is giving him some therapy for his own troubled being. BTW Tuan, Your money has been refunded right? So that means you'll never going to receive the product? or a tracking number?[/citation]

The money was eventually returned to me by PayPal's Fraud Investigation team, not by David Free.

Mr. Free still insists that the product shipped, and that I tried to scam him out of two mouse pads. But he still refuses to supply a tracking number. Also, he just deleted all the messages on his blog about me.

http://macpadd.livejournal.com/14632.html

/ Tuan
 
I contacted the US FBI. All they told me is they are aware of it and plan on acting soon. But they added "Rest assured sir - if the claims that you and others have made against MacPadd are legitimate, the company will be disbanded".
 
You have already reported enough information for us to make an informed decision on this and to even feel sorry for you. However, posting details about your users is not an acceptable practice. If you want to chastise this guy for his lack of professionalism you should not step down to his same level. I can see one article and even another one to update it in light of his new accusations but a third is just beating it into the ground and makes you seem rather childish. Please, stop now before you begin to lose the image that you have with your readers.
 
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