pedalpumping.org Karl Isele - President Used the bait and switch tactic when selling website services. Lied about his knowledge of web services. I lo

29th of Dec, 2011 by User932732

I learned a hard lesson never trust anyone who is offering you anything to do with hosting Internet services and content management of media you personally create. Make sure the domain and server is owned by yourself. On March 28, 2009 I was given an offer by Karl Isele of pedalpumping.org and T Analyst at Ripley Entertainment in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina to send him 148.50 towards the purchase of a script that would host my pedal pumping video clips and allow me to sell membership for individuals who like these video. Pedal Pumping is a type of video clip that is typically a foot fetish of females driving cars and footage of her foot pressing on the pedals either barefoot or in a variety of footwear from high heels, sandal sneakers and so on. I have enjoyed this type of video filming for years and after meeting Karl Isele online with Pedalpumping.org and saw that his site was online for several years and he came across as a friend. At one point I considered him a good friend. Invited him and his wife into my home and also took them to lunch at the Green Iguana in Brandon Florida and on another occasion I put him in connection with one of my models to allow him to drive his wifes car in sneakers while he filmed it. After sending him the money he offered to host my site on his server for free until my site was established on his domain. I asked him at the time if I could use my original domain which was pedalezine.com he told me this was impossible as the site was registered under pedalfloored.com. I myself not fully understanding the concept of domains at this time took on this offer and thought he was helping me out in good faith. After my site got going and members begain signing up I began to turn a small profit he notified me that I must begin paying $120.00 per month and he would transfer the rights of the script which was called Social media over to me and give me full control of the Pedalfloored.com domain. He did give transfer the license of Social Media to me but he never transferred to domain name to me. I continued paying the $120.00 per month. My site included 2 options for users option 1 was to stream the videos online. Option 2 was to download the media to the members hard drive. The site would keep the original file for downloading and also convert the file into a flash media format with use of a Red5 server. I at the time not knowing anything about servers relied on the knowledge of Karl Isele and his company Pedalpumping.org. In Late August 2011 the site began to have a number of errors and issues. I would email Karl to assist me with the issues sometimes it would take 2-3 days to get a response from him but he never had a problem responding to me about request for me to film videos of girl driving and pressing the gas pedal with sneakers on which was something he enjoyed watching. I tried my best to make these videos for him but it was hard for me to find females with sneakers that he liked. In September of 2011 the site completely stopped working I was unable to upload new videos and the members who had paid money for the site were becoming angry thinking they were ripped off. I myself had countless nights that I couldn't sleep and was depressed. I would contact Karl and ask him to fix it every time it was an excuse one time he said he was at a wedding in New York and had no cell phone service but I noticed he posted new videos of his wife flooring the gas pedal and driving in sneakers in a friends truck that he posted on his clips4sale store and so I felt that he was trying to destroy me at this time. At this point I began to look at my options on getting my own server and backing up my video files over 200 Gigabytes of content. On October 4, 2011 he sends me this in an email I quote from an email he sent me as follows "So I have a bit of a business proposition for you. You want to get the site back in order and look at something new. I looked at starting costs for PHP Motion and it looks like it will cost about $175. I have tested it with all the current server settings and it looks like it works well. That being said my deal would be to purchase the script power tools, setup all the payment and operations, maintain the server, and keep up with the support aspects of the site. In exchange I will take 45% of each membership and pay the rest to you each week via PayPal. The only thing you will have to do is maintain your member support and upload your videos to the server. " Later here is another Rude email he sent that put me further into depression all while my site is not working and members who have paid money to the site are unable to see the large amount of new updates i spent my own hard earned money to film and time to edit and process
I quote again "I understand where you are coming from and maybe it is time to take a step back and re-evaluate life. As a friend I do not want to see you go down the troubled path again turning to drugs and jail. You need a fresh outlook and get out of the rut of your day to day issues. You are in a tough spot because you live and die by being self employed. In our line of work it is always feast or famine there is never any consistency or reason why we make or break the bank." Instead of simply helping me get things moving he is trying to shake me down for part of my profits. I myself am having countless sleepless nights, stress and my girlfriend at the time was witness to this whole process unfolding if it wasn't for her I don't think I would have made it. Finally around Early November I was able to get my own server and with the help of a very kind individual I was able to get my site up and running on my own VPS server and it turns out the issues I was having were directly related to Karl's server which was infected by malware and viruses which I have emails from fraud agencies that were investigating his server. After I was able to manually download my site which took over 4 days of constant downloading and then uploading manually to my New Virtual Private Server I was able to get my site up and running. Problem was I didn't have access to the RED5 folder on Karl's server where my flash files were located over 2000 video flash files hours of my personal time, effort and work. I contacted Karl to get these files his answer to me was it was impossible for me to get the files. I contacted the Creator of my script Social Media and the developer told me there should be no issue on obtaining the flash files just ask Karl to let you download the files and then re-upload the files to your new Red5 directory on your new server. When I notified Karl about this he told me he was on a trip to Chicago and when he returns he will take care of it. Finally over a week later he contacted me and notified me that he deleted all the flash files in the red5 directory and it was impossible for me to obtain them. This news was gut wrenching, I was terribly hurt and mentally distraught for several weeks over this news I was unable to concentrate on my work and also lost a relationship with a very kind and beautiful woman that I loved so much as I completely shut down into depression thinking about the 2000 files that were gone forever all that time and effort I spent within those years working on that I would never be able to stream those files on my site again. My site will never be 100% again. It was a complete stab in the back. I thought this guy was a friend as well as a good business man but after thinking long and hard about everything I realized he was not a friend he was only out for himself and once I didn't make those videos of girls driving and flooring the gas pedal in sneakers he had no further concern about business ethics and business at all. And after reading the email about how he wanted 45% of the take on my subscription income I realized he was going to try to destroy me which he was successful in that but after praying and the support of family and friends I was able to pull out of the depression and move forward with my business and life. I hope this information will protect others from the Hard ship and loss of business and income that incurred from the business relationship with Karl Isele and pedalpumping.org Respectfully Submitted,

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