Kale wrote:Doesn't surprise me one bit. All i can say is i feel sorry for the people who have been ripped off by him. I too have been permanently banned for telling him exactly what i thought of his begging and lack of progress. I know for a fact that many of the users over there, helped paul out when he was 'going through a bad time™' and gave him (in some cases) hundreds of dollars each. Every month, without fail, something would crop up that he couldn't handle, such as, daughters wedding, prom, travel expenses for job interview, alchoholic brother's rehab, mothers illness, dog's surgery, etc, etc... man it just went on and on. The usual things that everybody else in the world has to deal with but without forum sponsors. In return he's shafted everybody who helped/funded him. :roll:
I agree 100%, Kale. There seems to be a cult-like atmosphere in the Ionic Wind forum, and I believe any posts that are even slightly critical are deleted and the poster is banned.
I was excited to find Paul Turley's Ionic Wind site as his products showed promise of being the lightweight cross-platform development tool I was looking for. I purchased a license for Aurora, and began to learn how to use it. Since the documentation for Aurora is scant, I found myself spending considerable time on the forums searching for clues on how to accomplish certain tasks. The more I read on the forums, the more concerned I became about the future of these products.
I too was initially drawn in by Paul's constant begging for money, and made financial contributions and purchased additional products to help Paul out. After a while, his constant begging became humorous and creative, but also pitiful. Why does this guy keep asking me to pay his bills?
I became frustrated by Paul's inability to finish anything. He takes Aurora up to Release Candidate #1, but instead of finishing it, marketing it, and expanding his customer base, he starts up new projects. I suspect these new projects, such as the Linux version of the compiler, was just a ploy to get his small band of followers to contribute more money. After doing a little work on the Linux version, Paul abandons it because his followers didn't contribute enough money to suit him.
In my post on the Ionic Wind forum, that was deleted, I explained why I stopped investing my time and money in his products. I had began to question Paul's stability and business acumen. For this, my post was deleted, and I was permanently banned without warning, and not even a courtesy email explaining why I was banned. Is this any way to treat your customers?
Paul has a small but loyal cult-like group of followers. It pains me to see him repeatedly abuse them on the forums and rip them off with his incessant begging and uncompleted products.
Fortunately, I am not as heavily invested financially and time-wise as many are on his forum, whom Paul has truly shafted.
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