Also jighead, e cannot announce a winner for the shimano Raffle since it wasn’t cancelled by us, it was cancelled by Indiegogo becuase Raffles, although legal in Florida, violate Indiegogo’s user agreement and terms of service. Anyone who donated to the raffle had to contact Indiegogo for a refund and to my knowledge everyone that requested a refund got 1. Also, we have applied for 501 status, and paid the $493.00 it cost to do it out of my own pocket. We will also be @ Texas Legends Billfish Tournament, White Marlin Open in August, plus we had representavies @ The Mississipi Billfish Classic back in June.
WE ARE NOT SOME GLOBAL CORPORATION, WE ARE A SMALL GROUP OF FISHERMAN WHO DO THIS WITH OUR EXTRA TIME WHEN WE ARE NOT WORKING/RAISING A FAMILY. THIS TAKES TIME, MONEY, DEDICATION TO ACCOMPLISH. I HAVE TALKED TO MULTIPLE PEOPLE FROM THIS FORUM BY TELEPHONE & EMAIL AND SO FAR YOU SEEM TO HAVE THE BIGGEST PROBLEM FOR NO APPARENT REASON. OUR ACTIONS SPEAK TO OUR LEGITIMACY, NOT WORDS ON A COMPUTER SCREEN.
SO BEFORE YOU TALK ****, GET YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT
YOU GET ALL PISSY BEACUASE I SAY WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT DOES NOT HAVE A PERMANENT FISHING PROGRAM? WHAT KIND OF **** IS THAT?
aLSO W EHAVE ONLY BEEN AT THIS FOR A MONTH, WHAT FREAKIN MORE DO YOU WANT HOSS?
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The above response is a wonderful way to win over potential contributors and ease the minds of current contributors, of which I am one. I gave you $50. Now I regret it. I have never received a receipt. I assume that you are too busy to acknowledge your contributions and thank your contributors? When I posted asking where my money was being kept, this was your response by email:
"I’m sorry that you no longer support us, but what happened wa snot our fault. If you claimed any lure packs or any perks, they will be mailed shortly to you. I apologize for any inconvience this has caused you but instead of getting pissy and jumping to conclusions all you had to dow as contact me. At l
so, your money will be used for t-shirts, visors, decals and (you betcha) expenses for them to travel and have “representatives” at fishing events. Notice anything missing…like details on taking warriors out in a boat to fish? BUT WAIT, send money now and well double the offer!
I think I was probably one of the first ones to make a contribution with the promise of the lure packet to be sent in exchange. I just now received an email from “indiegogo”:
Hello,
Thank you for your contribution to . Either at your request or at the request of the campaign administrator, we are refunding your contribution. To fund other amazing campaigns, start browsing at: http://www.indiegogo.com/
Cheers, The Indiegogo Team
I also see that apparently the WWF guy has now deleted all of his posts so either he got ticked off at the way things were going on here AND/OR he has decided not to go through with of his offers. I’ll be watching my CC to see if the refund really comes through…
true troll and scumbag donated around the forth of July, fortunately AMEX will reject him, should have suspected something off the get go if paypal was not available
Learned my lesson too. I never received my refund, although I tried to be respectful of him even when requesting a refund. The following is a summation of what I received from Eric and my own correspondence to him:
Jim expect your $$$ order by friday/saturday via USPS. I have been offshore Tuna fishing most of last week So i was not around, It will go out with the SC perk packs, sorry but I need to make a living too.
Not a problem, you will recieve a Western Union Money Order within 5-7 Business days or so to your address you provided below. Sorry you feel the way you feel, but I’m not going to let people bash WWFF publicly and not stick up for what I created. If more people would step up and help us instead of bashing us or doubting us things would go smoother. We have always told everyone what has been going on whenever a situation arose. I hope to see you when we are in Soth Carolina in September, but if not I wish you the best of luck in life and good fishing.
I received an email from Eric on July 11th then again on the 28th stating the stuff (fishing reel for me) would be mailed out the next week along with tracking numbers on both emails but nothing.
He will now not respond to my emails.
This douchebag should be in jail. I am some kinda pissed.
I have been patient and given him the benefit of the doubt. Initially he has responded to my emails and answered phone calls, but still nothing… Tracking number never given and know no response to my emails or phone calls. What’s next. If he would come through and they show up this week I apologize 10 fold, or just send me an email and tell me that he scammed me for 80 dollars and I’ll drop it. I don’t know how much longer I can hold my breath waiting for nothing. Prove me wrong Eric and deliver what you promised, but saying by the end of the week every week is B.S.
His replies are as follows
07/04/2012 : 6:00:41 PM
everything was being maile next week , but at this point we havent recieved any of the funds. we vilated indiegogo terms of service with our shimano raffle so i dont whats going on, we are waiting for thier customer support to get back to us
07/10/2012 : 01:56:50 AM
we will be packing everything up this week, at last count, we have over 300 packages to mail out from all the fundraisers thus far. so by mid next week everything should be shipped, we will email tracking numbers to
everyone as their stuff goes out to them.
07/17/2012 : 12:05:17 PM
As you may have seen we had some problems with our hosting site not releasing the funds to us on time, It seems that everything has since been resolved and we are scheduled to recieve all the funds on Thursday July 19th. So more than likely as long as the funds arrive on time we will pack everything up this weekend and all items will ship between Mon-Fri next week. We have over 300 packages going out for all the different fundraisers. Everyone will be emailed a tracking # once packages are mailed and we go down the email list. We apologize for the delay, but it was out of our control.
07/26/2012 : 1:14:52 PM
Eric is currently offshore fishing until Saturday, all perks have been packaged up and some have been mailed, It would help if I had a name/address to go by instead of a forum nic
Below are my communications with Eric. As y’all can see I did not request a refund thinking things would work out. It appears I wold not have gotten one anyway.
Sent: Monday, August 06, 2012 7:27 AM
To: woundedwarriorfishingfoundation@aol.com
So what’s up man?..It’s looking like you are every bit the scumbag folks said you were…What about the stuff being mailed out???
Sent: Friday, August 03, 2012 4:18 PM
To: Wounded Warrior
Subject: FW: Sent From CharlestonFishing.Com by DoubleN
Today is friday and still nothing. Can you tell me what the deal is please?
Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2012 9:09 AM
To: Wounded Warrior
Subject: RE: Sent From CharlestonFishing.Com by DoubleN
All the SC packages will be mailed this week to all the Charleston Forum Members. Should have it by Friday via USPS, we will go down the tracking # list once packages are mailed,
If I remember correctly you donated for the Shimano Sahara reel correct? If so, they will be shipping out next week soemtime along with all the other perks that everyone got. We had some problems with our hosting site not giving us the funds but all is well now and back on track. I apologize for the delay and thank you for your patience. Everyone will be emailed tracking #'s as thier packages are shipped out. Once again m
I finally got my refund back from Indiegogo BUT only after I contacted them again about it…asked them how much longer they would have held on to it if I hadn’t pestered them again.
No way I’m expecting anything else from the turkey though!!!
I guess this how douche bags make a living these days. Scam honest hard working people that honor, support, and respect our military personel. Is there any way to go after this person legally. There are several members on thehulltruth that are lawyers in Florida and are usually willing to work for free in circumstances like this. I’ll do a little checking around.