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Actually it has gotten worse. The forums are apparently locked out. So I've emailed them and threatened to contact PayPal. Here is the letter I sent:

 

Look... I'm pissed. First, I order and nothing arrives. Now your forums are

disabled. What do you want? A bloody lawsuit? I'm f****** sick of this. You

either get me my d*** order or I'll talk PayPal into dropping your sorry a**.

 

A Very Pissed Customer,

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Actually it has gotten worse. The forums are apparently locked out. So I've emailed them and threatened to contact PayPal. Here is the letter I sent:

 

 

Is that the actual wording you used?

If someone spoke to me like that they'd go straight to the bottom of my priority list.

 

I'm not saying it will happen here but, if things like this go to court it never looks good on someone to have a letter like that read out.

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No news here either.

I just sent a polite email asking when i can expect the downloadinstructions. The guy is probably very busy with something (planning a holiday to Hawaii perhaps :D ) so i'll give it another week or two. It looks like a good 'and fun' program to use, and i can't imagine he would screw up his whole operation for a quick buck so it seems best to just wait.

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Is that the actual wording you used?

If someone spoke to me like that they'd go straight to the bottom of my priority list.

 

I'm not saying it will happen here but, if things like this go to court it never looks good on someone to have a letter like that read out.

Yeah you're right. Probably unwise. But at the same time, they have been causing a lot of problems for people. Just wasn't aware of it before ordering.

 

Apparently they were originally using BMT Micro to accept payment. Then because of an incident (the purchaser never got the product) they were dropped.

 

Another thing that caught my attention was they stopped selling through 3rd party providers. Apparently they were doing it for some time. Makes me think maybe the providers dropped them instead of Aliencodec dropping the providers. Maybe Aliencodec did something similar with them?

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Hi all !

 

I'm in the same situation as yours...

 

Sent emails too and got no answers. So I went to their (locked by now) forum, and then came here...

 

Seems to me that they are a very small team (like two or three max) and just had a good article/ad on cgarchitect a couple of days ago. ;)

 

Even if we all tend to get a bit nervous when money is involved, we should try to remember that it's just 40 bucks and they're probably overwhelmed by now.

Let's give them some days before getting mad and burning them down. I'll personally will be even ok to wait for 2 or 3 weeks : I wasn't waiting for this product to do a job, I just jumped on the deal.

 

Concerning the possible "sting", I really don't think so. I downloaded the demos some months ago when investigating on realtime technologies, and they are nice piece of software, not just screenshots.

 

Let's cool down. We'll have our download links (?) sooner if they don't have to deal with attorneys in the next few hours :D

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Well I just found out how overwhelmed they really are. I was forwarded an email that was sent out to http://www.thegamecreators.com. It appears something interesting is in the process. Here is the reply the person got:

 

Hi ,

 

The following is a reply to your enquiry:

 

If you purcahed from Aliencodec then it's up to them to sort you. We are in the processes of buying them out. So until that is complete we cannot help you just yet. Like you, we are waiting on them.

 

Rick Vanner

 

I hope "The Game Creators" can do a better job. Anybody is going to do better than Sabata though.:D

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Any news guys? I purchased the products on 11/11/05, my e-mails are being ignored so it seems. If www.thegamecreators.com bought them out, does anyone think they will take on www.aliencodec.com extremely cheap sales? I noticed over at www.thegamecreators.com they are already selling treemagik g2 and plantlife. Something tells me this was a last min scam by aliencodec to cash in before they sold the business? :(

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Perhaps someone in the U.S. can make a telephonecall to get some more information from aliencodec?

From what i could find they seem to be based in Crosby Texas.

It's not that i'm inpatient, but the fact that they closed the forum and arent responding to anyone worries me a bit.

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I have lodged an official complaint with Paypal about this Ronnie Smith. They now give him a certain time to respond, if he doesn’t which seems to be an obvious character trait of this person the dispute will be ruled in my favor and I am sure I will be refunded. From what I know Paypal does not look favorably on dishonest traders. What a shame I really looked forward to this software!

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Hi guys,

 

I feel somewhat responsible for posting this guys link. I've emailed him to let him know that I have re-directed the link to their "sale", to midway through this thread. I've welcomed him to contacted me, but I doubt I will hear anything. I suspect PayPal will be able to help you out, and if they can not and you used a credit card, contact your credit card company and they can file an incident against the company as well.

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Personally, I'd rather have the software at the $40 price than get a refund. So, I guess I'll wait and see what happens.

 

Don't worry about it, Jeff--we all know the risk when ordering anything online. Thanks for looking into it, though.

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