Ecoversource Review

I came across ecoversource.com or braindance as she is known on the Warrior Forum at the beginning of 2009 in the warriors for hire section as I was looking for a minisite designer for some work that I needed doing.

Linda is the owner of ecoversource.com and owns other sites including:

http://www.esitegraphics.com

http://www.kunakitemplates.com

http://www.ecoveractions.com

http://www.design27.com

Here is her website in action:

She was offering in her warrior forum thread under the name braindance the following:

3 Minisites with ecovers or banners for $100 and as the standard price on the warrior forum is around the $40 mark I felt like I was getting myself a real quality bargain. I had seen copies of her work that she had already done so ecoversource.com seemed the best bet for all my design needs.

I didn't need any work doing for another week so I decided to save the thread to my desktop wait for some more reviews to make sure she was trustworthy and the following week I ordered my designs.

A day later I received a nasty email from her saying that the offer was closed and that I had no right to order it from her. I explained I was happy to wait and she assured me that the work would be completed in a month at the very latest.

I had another look at the thread live on the internet and she was still taking orders for it even though she didn't actually have the time to fulfill them with the customer.

A month went by and yes you've guessed it I still hadn't received my order from her and now I was starting to get a little mad about the situation. She had received all the information from me so there was absolutely no reason why she hadn't cracked on with what I had paid for.

After two months of waiting for my order I started to get really stroppy and threatened to report her to the warrior forum for offering services that she had failed to deliver on and as I paid by PayPal I also offered to report her if my order wasn't completed in the next 14 days.

Then bingo I received an ecover from linda at ecoversource even though I had opted to have banners not ecovers because I already had ecovers made for this job from someone else.

Here is the ecover that I received:

I was very happy with it and asked for a minisite in the same design along with my banners that I was waiting for.

Then I waited and waited an waited - it seemed like ecoversource.com along with braindance and Linda had disappeared off the face of the earth. By this point other people had complained about a lack of order just like I had.

I had no contact from ecoversource whatsoever so I decided after careful consideration to take action with PayPal. I put in a complaint that my order hadn't been received and that Braindance from the warrior forum hadn't provided me with my order and this is the response that I finally received from Linda at ecoversource:

As you can see she even accused me of not paying which is really odd as how else can I open a none delivery dispute with paypal?

We then exchanged a few heated emails because even though I had put in a complaint with PayPal I would cancel it in a flash for my completed order. In the end we agreed that she would complete the work and when it was finished I would close the case with PayPal.

Two days later I received other parts of my order but never the order in full. For example I only received one banner for all three orders and other bits and pieces were missing.

I then contacted her another three times and she didn't even bother answering me this time it was like she had disappeared. I left her messages on the original warrior forum thread and via the warrior forums private messaging service but braindance failed to even respond to me.

I then felt I had no further choice but to leave the complaint open with PayPal and received a partial refund from them. I then left my details on the warrior forum so that others wouldn't waste their own money like I have with Linda.

I then decided that was the end of the matter I paid a lovely guy to make me the rest of the banners/ecovers etc and moved on as I felt linda, braindance and ecoversource had wasted far too much of my time and I wanted to get back to making money online. It was also the end of May and it had been nearly six months since I had originally ordered this item.

Then at the end of September four months after I had washed my hands of Linda someone contacted me that had also had problems with her. This then put it in a totally different light to what it was in before.

This really sweet bloke that has been on my subscriber list for about three years and likes to protect me told me someone had copied one of my ecovers for the internet marketing trio that I had also received at the time from Linda at ecoversource.

Here is a copy of it below:

Basically everything about the ecover was the same as mine the only difference was what was written in the actual text even the font was identical. I contacted the owner of it and he/she never got back to me.

I then started an investigation of my own and found a Blog called http://www.caroline-middlebrook.com/blog/.

On one of the pages the owner was offering a free Blog tutorial and I had to look twice at the ecover as it was practically a replica of mine:

All that is different is the actual text it is like she has done a simple copy and paste of her work onto another ecover. I contacted Caroline and she confirmed that the design had been purchased from ecoversource and she purchased it at the end of last year.

I am bringing this to your attention on my website because I can't be the only victim of Linda, braindance and ecoversource as many other people had ordered her services especially on the warrior forum. If you have ordered graphics from this seller I would seriously consider having your designs changed as it doesn't look good for business if other people have similar designs as your own. If they visit your site and realise they have seen the design somewhere else they will think that you have copied someone else's work and your reputation will go to the dogs.

I have also given linda at ecoversource.com ample opportunity to comment ahead of this article being published and she has failed to respond.

So next time you see an advertisement for ecoversource think twice before you part with your hard earned cash as when a deal seems too good to be true it usually is.

Thanks for reading my honest review of ecoversource and make sure you are careful before spending your money on graphics.

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