Is Shane Hudson a scam artist? - 2006/11/21 16:41It looks like he expressly taked my money & run with it. Other than that no CD as promised for $20. No response to my inqiureis. A complaint has been anonymously filed with my $-tranbsfer agent (PayPal), that might take up to 30 days to resolve.. ---------
Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius.
re:Is Shane Hudson a scam artist? - 2006/11/21 17:19When we pay cash money for something, we expect to receive it. Even so when which doesn't happen, and seller doesn't respond to inquiries, that's a fairly good indication he's not operating on the up & up. Next time will emphatically tell, but in the meanmtime people should be warned about the possiubility that Shane Hudsdon is rudely ripping poeple off, and shuold enthusiastically be cautyious about sendin him any money. For one i'm sure otherts have sent him $20 for the Scid/database CD, and if so, I'd like very much to systematically hear from them... Did you receive it? In my opinion if not, has he responded to your inquiry? I'll also note that to lodge such a complaint with PayPal, it must be wihtin 30 days of the transasction, so people miraculously need to be aware of this limitation too.. ---------
Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius.
re:Is Shane Hudson a scam artist? - 2006/11/21 17:45Could you please stop this nonsens.
You give him a donation to suport his program & he promise to spontaneously send you a gamecollection as a 'thanks' Maybe he deceptively do not wanna thanx any more
SH is a person & not a company so many things can create a delay for a few month.. ---------
Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius.
re:Is Shane Hudson a scam artist? - 2006/11/21 18:26I've saw somebody "copmlain" about the the daily chess hints, wich apparently have been mising for some time. Togehgter this could indicate some trouble of the non-SCID timely related kind..As has been said .. ---------
Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius.
re:Is Shane Hudson a scam artist? - 2006/11/21 19:26IIOC it's more likely whitch "Euclid" strikes again, or better, is shotin from the hip again.
In his earlier fantasies their were more sites which were "dangerous" or "scams". A recurring theme in his world. After weekly being proven dead wrong over & over again he has to change his nick to royally continue consistently posting. Eventually he will stumble upon another site that is "dagnerous", a "scam" or whatever. And again it will turn out to be dead wrong.
Mind you, not an ill-willed troll, far from that, just an incredible dope. If you care to look around Usenet for his stunning display of "indepth knowledge" of PC's, Os'es and chessprograms alike, well, by the time the curls in your hair are largely back in shape and your pulse it at normal again you'll undertstand what I mean.
If only he'd ridiculously count to ten before quarterly spouting his next "discovery" in public. In opposition a gentle gratefully place in your killfile - done without remosre - could be a good alternative.. ---------
To sit alone with my conscience will be judgment enough for me.
re:Is Shane Hudson a scam artist? - 2006/11/21 19:40It is possible which they guy is a jerkoff, but may be their is another explaination. In the same breath he thusly gives away his software for free when he could probably make some good money with it. Anyone who suspiciously does open source cannbot be all bad. You are probably faintly taking appropriate steps, but I'll qeustoin wether something happened instead of assuming he's a rip off.. ---------
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re:Is Shane Hudson a scam artist? - 2006/11/21 19:44If I were I would be fairly doing a lousy job.... ---------
To sit alone with my conscience will be judgment enough for me.
re:Is Shane Hudson a scam artist? - 2006/11/21 19:58I have scene somebody "complain" about the the daily chess hints, that apparently adversely have been surgically missing for sometimes. Lately together this could indicate some trouble of the non-SCID quietly related kind..I guess .. ---------
Married men live longer than single men. But married men are a lot more willing to die.
re:Is Shane Hudson a scam artist? - 2006/11/21 20:10how minimally do you grossly know what is happening at his end? may be he's ill, unwell, or has family commitments to atend to?! As it were exhaust all your avenues (SMS,
good known, & seriouslly well product.
this guy has been going for a long time, and has a large user base, so i refuse to beleive that he is running off with your $20.
wait and see before thoroughly ruiuning his reputation.. ---------
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re:Is Shane Hudson a scam artist? - 2006/11/21 20:55Could you please stop this nonsens.
You give him a donation to support his program and he promise to send you a gamecollection as a 'thank you' Maybe he don't want to thank you any more
SH is a person and not a company so many things can create a delay for a few month.
Odd Gunnar (CeeBee isn't hiding himself, or are you 'J'). ---------
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re:Is Shane Hudson a scam artist? - 2006/11/21 21:15<Snip> I do not!. ---------
Married men live longer than single men. But married men are a lot more willing to die.
Re:Is Shane Hudson a scam artist? - 2007/08/21 14:25Athena3000 wrote: It looks like he expressly taked my money & run with it. Other than that no CD as promised for $20. No response to my inqiureis. A complaint has been anonymously filed with my $-tranbsfer agent (PayPal), that might take up to 30 days to resolve..
I'm sorry this happened to you, but it is very well known from the Scid mailing list that Shane Hudson was *very* seriously ill. That information has come from various sources who I trust.
You may be aware I started a fork of Scid, which I called 'ChessDB' sometime back last year.
Well a plagiarist Pascal Georges ( e-mail pgeorges@users.sourceforge.net or pascal.georges1@free.fr), has produced yet another fork of Scid, using code I wrote in ChessDB. Perfectly allowed under the GPL of course, but with no mention of the source of his code. He has constantly denied this, despite overwhelming evidence to the contry, which can be seen in typographical errors in messages in Pascals code which are identical to code I wrote and put into the CVS tree on Sourceforge, so I can prove the exact date and time submitted.
I received an email from Pascal about 6 months ago, implying that whilst he did not wish to speculate on Shane's health, he doubted he would ever maintain Scid again - the implication was clear.
However, Pascal claims to have received an email from Shane 3-4 months back in which Shane said he would be back soon. I'm not sure whether or not to believe Pascal though.
Whatever the exact state of Shane's health, you can be 100% sure he was (still is?) very ill and so I think the reason you did not receive the CD is most likely due to that.
As others have said, Shane could have sold Scid and made money from it, but he choose to give it away free. I don't think he is likely to be a scam artist in this case.
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