Thanks, interesting read. I see I am not the only one who has been taken advantage of. I wonder if any of those guys ever got their money back from him. Even if I can't get any of my money back, I would at least like to make sure that he can't find another job to rip of another programmer. I don't want to come across as mean, or insensitive about his story, but losing $300 was a huge setback for me in my game developement, and I wasn't able to hire another artist to finish my project and I lost my sponsorship, which upset me a great deal. When I tried reversing the payment on paypal he pleaded with me to stop the inquiry and he would finish the artwork quickly, after I reversed it(stupid of me) he again started ignoring me. It has been going on like this for over 3 months. Every time I see him online on MSN I send a message but he never responds.