Quote Originally Posted by tony bagadonuts View Post
Quote Originally Posted by Dan Druff View Post

This is really only about a breach of contract and the fact that I gave Micon thousands of dollars in free equity in DonkDown in exchange for this contract, and now he's refusing to honor it.

I got scammed, and regardless of public opinion, I'm going to do my best to recover that money and/or get an injunction forcing him to adhere to what he agreed to.
LOL wat??

Druff, you didn't get scammed, and you are not going to be able to collect "thousands of dollars" because you are not owed them. It doesn't matter that you think DD was worth significantly more than what you settled for. In reality, the worth of anything is what someone is willing to pay or be paid for, and you accepted $1200 for your share of DD. Period. Offer, acceptance and consideration.

I'm not saying Micon didn't breach the contract, he clearly did. But all you can really do here is sue for specific performance, and if said performance cannot be delivered then a judge would have to put a monetary value on it.

What do you think a judge might value forum access at druff?

I appreciate your postion on this situation from a macro perspective, but to say that Micon scammed you and should now be considered a scammer for this episode is ludicrous.
I like you, Tony, but you're just not correct here.

I most definitely did get scammed.

Let's put aside the legal arguments for the moment and discuss whether I actually got scammed.

If I wrongly valued DonkDown at $1200 and later regretted it, I couldn't call Micon a scammer. That would just be a case of seller's remorse.

But that's not what happened.

I clearly told Micon I was refusing to sell it for such a low price. I explained all the reasons my part was worth many times that. I still remember the phone call where all of this happened.

I told Micon that I was refusing to sell my part for so much less than it was worth. Micon went into a whole speech about what a terrible place in life he was at, and how there was just no way he could come up with that type of money. He admitted that I was correct about the 26.4% of the site being worth far more than $1200, but said that he absolutely couldn't afford more. He then went on to tell me a long story about all of the different financial messes he was in.

I finally told him that I was willing to eat the difference in value if he would sign my latest version of the contract and promise to keep to it. He said that he would, and that's what we ended up doing.

Now, 6 months later, he's breaking the contract for no other reason than because he feels like it.

How is that not a scam?

It was very clear to him that I was discounting the price ONLY if he was willing to sign the contract and keep to its terms, and he agreed. This wasn't just something he had to guess or realize. I actually said to him that it's very important to keep to the terms because I'm only giving him this fabulous deal because of his willingness to sign the contract, and he said that he understood.

My last telephone conversation with him was on Sunday. I asked how he was not a scammer if he received a discount in exchange for signing an agreement I wanted, and then violated the agreement once the sale was already through. He said, "I only signed the agreement because it was the only way to get your part of the site. When I signed it, I didn't really agree with what I was signing."

This isn't about him not performing on a contract. Had we sold at a mutually agreed-upon fair price AND attached a contract which he later violated, then it would just be a performance issue, and not a scam.

Here he lied about agreeing to certain terms in order to save thousands of dollars on the sale, and then gave me the middle finger once he already owned my part.

Sounds like a scam to me.