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Eyepartner inc/ Tiki Live and Blinko Tv Complaints - Complete scam

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Eyepartner inc/ Tiki Live and Blinko Tv

Posted: 2009-07-04 by   StayAwayFromEyepartner
Complete scam
Complaint Rating:  75 % with 4 votes
Company information:
Eye Partner inc
Marathon, Florida
United States
eyepartner.com

I am writing this to do my part as a civilized and caring human being. Sort of like the way a rape victim should report a rapist in order to prevent others from being raped as well.

This complaint is aimed at a company called Eyepartner inc. A company that has several websites and domain names involving themselves with
live streaming, webcam devolopment, and any kind of website software related to these subjects.

I spent 45 days on the phone with the supposed owner Tim Green back in December 2008. I swear I have never done more research and been so
thorough with my questions and thoughts before handing over my money to a company as I did here. They got me good.

Tim Green was accessible and easy to deal with. He was there at any time to handle your questions, fill your hopes and dreams in your project and build your confidence in them as a team, like you will regret not working with them.

Of course this changed literally the second I signed their contract and sent in my money.

Next thing you know I am told that I need to now apply any and all of my ideas, explanations, and questions, etc. to their ticket system to communicate with them. Now, if any of you have been around, you should know two things:

One- this is not completely uncommon

Two- it is a huge pain in the ass to explain certain precise and heavy duty details in a text form through a ticket system. Especially when those details are creative and brand new ideas.

In Eyepartners case not only do these two circumstances take place, but you now find out that the people reading your ticket posts are from Romania and barely speak English. So in turn you end up with half of your idea done wrong, and the other half not understood or passed over.

Meanwhile you see your charges for hours going up significantly. When you write back "no this is not what I meant, and what about my other details" you then see another round of charges applied to your account. And when I say charges I mean upwards of $200 per hour unless you opt in to buy hundreds of hours like I did in my case, to lower the amount. You will literally see charges for asking a question, requesting they fix something not right on their end, asking how much or about how long will a certain idea take to accomplish, and the list goes on.

Of course we should all know time is money, so if you are using their time, you should be paying them money. However, if this company was a car dealership they would basically be trying to charge you for coming in the door and wanting to ask about which models they have, how much it will cost, and what kind of programs do they have. Then they would charge you for the test drive, the coffee you drink while waiting, and the time it takes for you to fill out your paperwork- I think you get my idea. For the record the money they swindled from me is over $30, 000.

I could go on forever with these details here, and again am only writing this because I feel compelled to try and help anyone else that could possibly fall victim to these crooks.

To edit this, basically after trying to turn their $13, 000 rip off program Tikilive.com into a customized version for me to turn into an online business, I ended up paying them over $17, 000 on top of it for hours they said would be needed to implement my ideas.

I had to start facing the reality that these guys were only out to give you a program that kind of works and kind of doesn't, then charge you to fix her up and get her going. They make it seem like you will pay $13, 000 for a program that is perfectly shaped to be what it is right away. But the sad truth is it's filled with tiny errors and quirks that will drive you crazy, while on top of it, try to explain that to people in Romania through a ticket system who try to charge you for requesting they fix it!!!

Over time, I started getting discouraged and losing faith in them as a company while I also had to get back to my business that was actually paying my bills in order to survive this investment. I put things on hold for a bit. I also started spending endless hours actually creating my ideas in Photoshop myself in hopes of evolving the situation for the better, and not have to type things, but rather show them in picture form, so all they would have to do is make the pages I created functional.

After taking a step back and looking at this whole thing with a clearer head and more honest perspective, it finally dawned on me that this was going to be a very bad idea to keep this going with this company.

I recently got up the nerve to finally figure out the best way out without having to go to war. I already knew from my dealings with the wanna be tough guy Tim Green that he was going to be a huge baby con artist and NEVER voluntarily hand over any return of my money- however I didn't think he would be as bad as it now is.

I opted to take it in the ass as for buying a program like Tikilive.com and call it as a mistake on my part for getting involved. I also, opted to take a hit on the hours they configured and totaled as "used" for dealing with me. So all I wanted and request was for the unused hours that were not applied at all! According to records, they used up 43 of my 300 hours I purchased. Leaving 256 hours unused and unneeded if was not going to continue
with the project. As I said in the beginning, they give you a break on the cost of hours based on how many you buy. So knowing that anyone in business would logically say, "ok, if you need me to give you a credit back for 256 hours, then you will now have to be charged a different amount for the 43 hours used". So, I did the math on their next package up which was $95 per hour between 20-100 hours. I wrote a complaint free and nice respectful letter to Tim requesting a return for the amount of 256 hours at $95 an hour totaling $12, 000. Basically this would mean they made over $5, 000 off of me on used hours, and $13, 000 on a not so good working program- not to mention the hosting fees they got me on for $550 a month- claiming that you can't cancel for a year.

After sending the letter I honestly thought I was being a pussy and too generously doing things in their favor, and they would definitely have no problem sending back a credit on what was rightfully not used! I was wrong, instead I received a return email form Tim saying a bunch of non sense about how they will have to reconfigure the amount of Blueprint and development time spent on my project! What?? It has been thoroughly documented that this company charged me for nearly every request involving blue printing, developing, etc... That's what the 43 hours went to!
And he added that they didn't count several hours because of the size of my project, so if now the size of my project has gone down, then they must add up these unaccounted for hours!!! Unless you're seriously slow, you should now fully see the demons teeth popping out here. Now all of a sudden there are other charges?? From where and what? They are the ones who have the tracking system in place so you can watch your hours be sucked away. And now there are some "other hours"???

I sent him a return letter, explaining I will settle for nothing less than the amount requested, and almost begged him kindly not to make us have to go to court. It is unjust. They are unused hours that deserve to be returned at a higher dollar amount per hour- and that's final. I advised and explained how I did all of the math in their favor and hope they decide to do the right thing.

This is where things got shocking. I instantly received a phone call from the wanna be tough guy Tim Green. He immediately started doing that thing idiots do where they skip your main point, and get stuck on one of your smaller more irrelevant points. He was stuck on how I said "if you are claiming there are other hours you need to add up, you are lying- which is fraud, and you know it." He kept saying " are you saying I'm a liar? Are you saying I'm lying??". I tried explaining again, what I said in the letter, but he couldn't get it through his thick head.

I am now in the middle putting together a lawsuit against this company besides starting a campaign to warn others about them.

If you have questions or possible disbelief in what I'm saying, please look them up on this site. You will find there are plenty of others not happy as well. But don't be fooled. The supposed owner Tim Green will post fake claims back that his product is solid and blah blah. He's a salesman.

And I guess, he's a darn good one!!

Any others doing business with them, and interested in joining my class action suit, please contact me.

All others, please be warned of this company and any others. It's funny how things change with a company once they have your money.

If you believe my case and feel you want to help warn others as well, here are some links that pertain to this company that you can use to post
your warnings to others.

Thank you

www.eyepartner.com
www.blinkotv.com
www.tikilive.com
www.mozzen.com
www.streamingbase.com
www.realsafe.tv
www.jamoncam.com
www.kuleblu.com
www.cinachat.com
www.tuzzor.com
www.scenerecall.com
www.monsterencoder.com
www.camwax.com
www.gobyt.com
www.buzbit.com
www.ehopii.com
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 126 days ago by   StayAwayFromEyepartner -1 Votes
My apologies here folks. I see a few embarrassing typos in my post, but more importantly, about half way down I screwed up the math in my explanation and want to clarify what I actually meant.

They charged me $57 per hour because I purchased 300 hours. I knew if I wanted a return for the 256 unused hours, they would want to rightfully charge me more money for the 43 hours I did use.

The next package up according to them is $95 per hour for 20 to 100 hours.

So when I requested they return the money for unused hours, I prefigured the 43 used hours at $95 per hour which totaled $4, 085. Seeing how I originally gave them $17, 100, I asked for the $13, 015 that went towards hours that were unused.

Hopefully this clears up any possible confusion with the numbers in that paragraph.

Thank you
 126 days ago by   L. Burns 0 Votes
See other comments on Eyepartner on this site under thread titled: Eyepartner JOC Complaints
 74 days ago by   RayZorback 0 Votes
Not sure about the behind the scenes business model that is referred to above, but will say that I watch the programs on their player all the time. Recently they have been timing out due to max users on the system (which is impressive). I'm a user & as a "media player" of streaming shows, it is pretty amazing. I don't really know ANYTHING about the business itself.
 31 days ago by   vasile 0 Votes
Hello Jonathan –


I will post only one reply to your absurd comments. I’m not going to enter a debate with you because it simply doesn’t worth my time

So here it goes.

Tim Green told you to put in a ticket system all your brilliant ideas and thoughts and now you are pissed? Guess what! This was the right way to do. What did you think – that you can speak 1 h over the phone and tell me all your fantasy plans and then the development team just does it as you want it? And btw if you want do develop something you talk with the project manager and programmers not with the sales office.

We ask all the clients to put this in ticket system and in writing because of main 2 reasons:

1 - We need to keep track of all your fantasy requests
2. -Guys like you come after 2 months and say I didn’t order that and we need to prove that we did exactly what you asked for. Oh, almost forgot. We tell you before– don’t go this way because it’s not good and it will not work. But you still do it and when the whole platform collapses you still come after us and blame us, not you.

And, Yes I’m from Romania. And I think everybody can see now how much English I know and how bad it is. And btw – Rumanian is the second language spoken in Microsoft headquarters. That’s how “bad” we are.

You are right on one thing: Time is money. And if you want to change the plans 100 times it’s not really our problem. In the ticket system we ask you: “Dear client – you want to do x and y. It will take so many hs to do it”. And surprise – you approved all these changes.

You say our Tikilive software is not a good one. I say go to sites like ufragv.com – they have thousand of users online and a community of 7000 + people and growing.

You say I feel like a rape victim – give me a break. We did wireframes, and sketches and maps. Here is how it will look. Here is how it will work. And you still don’t get it. Why don’t you explain why we were waiting for 1 week or even more for a simple answer from you?

And don’t even get me started with the other guy that did the other complaint on JOC, Mr. I don’t know how to read my email but I want to be the new Larry Flint.

Bottom line – you played ping pong with us and changed the specs 100 times and now you want the money back? Do you think you won us in Vegas and we don’t need to get paid?
We tried to help you but I see we just wasted our time. And probably in 3-4 months we will see another complaint from you. But this time for a different company.
 31 days ago by   StayAwayFromEyepartner 0 Votes
Dear Cheap Romanian employee of EyePartner inc,

If we cut through the BS on here and get to the simple point of where your company is an internet scam, it would be the mere fact that you have a ticket system in place that allows for a client to keep track of everything being done on their project.

This ticket system not only is for the client to type his order for you, but it also allows a client to be aware of how much you're charging per request- so the client can make educated decisions on whether what he is asking for is worth the price of hours necessary to create and implement it.
(Note- my favorite charge is the charge where you charge people hours to figure out how much you're going to have to charge them for something-lol. Nice one- very smooth)

Again, here's the problem- when you misinterpret what a client is requesting but still charge for not only the time you spent doing it wrong, but also the time it takes to redo it- you are scamming people. Plain and simple.

Talking to your "sales staff"? You mean talking to the only guy who works in your office in the US reachable that could talk without flipping out or charging me on a timer for merely translating my requests to you? Why would I call him?
Because he gave me tips on how to best communicate with you worthless designers. Period.

He agreed that everything you did was wrong and like an intelligent person I called him to ask how I could best communicate my ideas to you seeing how YOU JUST COULDN"T GET THEM RIGHT unless he contacted you on my behalf to re-explain it over and over again!!

I even sent over perfectly finished PSD files of my completed work- leaving the only thing needed to be done to make it work was to literally copy my work, and turn it on.
Even after doing this I would still see everything from color changes to sizing changes, to wording changes to misplacement of items.

Making a mockery of your paying clients orders by sarcasticlly calling them "fantasy requests" is probably the only thing truthful you have said on here.
In other words- whoever thinks they're going to actually get what they've asked for by paying you Eyepartner inc to do it is truly making a "fantasy request". Congrats on winning that point!

In the end I gave your company $13, 000 for an obviously copied open source platform program with hundreds of tiny glitches. (www.TikiLive.com)
I also used up 44 out of 300 hours dealing with you.

Your ticket system charged me in plain view for every minute taken of your time.

I simply requested a return for the 256 remaining UNUSED hours. I even said you can keep the rest.

What did I get???

Nothing!!!

I got told from your ring leader that he was going to have to reconfigure my account an add extra charges because the project was now considered a "smaller" project so "extra" charges would now apply.

He then said that I "MIGHT" be eligable for a "small" return.

This comment is laughable and almost a predictable action coming from a scammer company such as yourself. The only math that should have ever changed would be the amount you charge per hour in that 300 hour package, should go up if I was to have only used 44 hours. I did this math for Tim as well as above in my first explanations for everyone else.

Bottom line- with the math done above (and done in their favor) they owed me a return of $13, 015.

I even told Tim Green kindly I would be satisfied even receiving $10, 000- just to be kind and simple!

I RECEIVED NOTHING- NOT A PENNY.

Please I dare you to even attempt to justify or explain using up the rest of my 256 hours on "extra" phony charges "not kept in the billing section of your ticket system". Please Please- I need a good laugh.


Eyepartner inc is an online fraud everyone. They're writing on here now because this comment board is obviously starting to hurt their business. Also there are over 8 of us now in communication - and what's funny is we all have the exact same story.

You will go down Eyepartner. And I must forewarn you, changing your name won't help- you're too obvious to find now.

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