uhh, finally i made it till here through all these 19 pages to post my reply! It took me 1.5 hours, 2 cigarettes and lots coffee to get to here. Now its time and me to take part here, since i am strictly staying behing the honest business and the good business ethics netpond keeps for years..
I might post some duplicate things here and post big post..but i wanna say what i think of this.
First, Yeah really looks like our today's guy Ricardo is getting around from quite lots of time with different nicknames (jigsaw and etc..) and the only reason i see someone doing that is because either he is scamming or doing something illegal. Why would someone honest, keep changing his nicknames and leave a reputation he has with his nickname to start from the scratch? Why Meat or Aga don't change their nicknames??
So basically there is a 100% proof all over this thread that Ricardo is changing nicknames and changing domains and etc..
As i personally see his strategy is close to the one Meat described..he is processing good enough the small traffic order and scamming with the big ones, so the lots good votes for him hide the 1-2 negative votes... It looks like his strategy is to be coming around regularly with new identity and catch our "love" to him with his detailed and helpful posts and reputation. So everyone around starts loving him from first side and he builds his name pretty fast and uses it to draw the attention of the big players around, take their money and vanish..
The other thing i noticed in the past, but i didn't pay much attention is that he is really always speaking about his staff, but when i needed something i was hitting him on icq or email and finally it was done by him. Also i have been taking a note for the same thing in his posts here..because he was saying my staff, my staff, but always saying at the threads here "i have lots of orders to process" and such stuff...Also isn't it fishy enough if he has couple of people like he call "staff" to work for him and he will be spending his time submitting his feeders by hand to all those linkdumps and surfer forums. Well i don't think so..
Other fishy stuff is that lately Ricardo was always speaking about "linkdumps". he wasn't mentioning dealing with free sites, right? Now take a look at his last post at his blog:
http://www.netpondblog.com/RicardoB/
he is talking about free sites, isn't that somehow strange, and there is a guy in this thread said to be ripped off in the past with exactly free sites?
I wasn't pretty close friend with Ricardo, but anyways i was regularly talking with him about business. Within that time i was always noticing he had some people connected to him and i was speaking and with them..and exactly these people were suddenly disappearing with the time and no hear from them anymore...
Other thing i know remember in one my conversation with him is that he was talking about network of "adult webmaster resource" sites and boards strategy he is up to. Maybe here he slipped off and shared some critical info about himself..He was talking about running as many such sites and boards as possible. I really wasn't able to get the idea of this..because what i would do with 20 boards for example that noone visits?? but i was sure when he is up to it, then there is some reason..and now i realise that this is probably for reason to be able easily lost his track...
Well, I personally have received nothing but good from Ricardo while in this post i only mention negative things for ricardo, but when i was reading this thread i really got assured he is a fishy guy. It is not possible whole board consisting of up to 6k members be wrong...
I don't think he will ever come back here with nickname RicardoB when more than a week since this thread is started no hear from him or his friends..maybe he is around now with other username, because there is no better moment than now to get among the board, when everyone is not expecting him to try to get in here that soon..
And finally wanna say sorry for everyone got hurt from this whole mess.
For the first time i see Meat's post free of types LOL
Btw, Sleazy didn't you keep his phone number when you rung him for the NetpondShow couple of months in the past..
And i will be looking closely how all this will be resolved..