What's with Hungercity again?

[mooncusser]

[RamesesII]

Donations are very poor ...........................

The amount required to get HC back online again has now increased to 425 USD

[nutzrocker]

HUNGERCITY UPDATE - 27TH SEPTEMBER, 2013 (7:30PM EST)

Most of you will have seen this statement. As any rational person would expect, donations have not been good.

Shareefs situation gets more desperate yet he still has not wrote a single word in the Hungercity Forum or contacted the Hungercity staff team.

He is acting like someone who has lost all sense of reality.

Oh yes, as the last post states, THE PRICE HAS JUST GONE UP

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AS THE DONATION PAGE CANNOT BE ACCESSED, PLEASE SEND ALL DONATIONS VIA PAYPAL TO : [email protected]


DUE TO THE VERY POOR DONATIONS LEVEL, THERE WILL BE A DELAY IN GETTING BACK ONLINE! WE ONLY HAVE A FEW DAYS TO GET THIS SORTED OR WE LOSE ALL THE SITE FILES ETC!!
IF YOU REALLY WANT TO HELP AND WANT TO SEE HUNGERCITY BACK, PLEASE DONATE NOW!! WITHOUT YOUR HELP IT WILL BE IMPOSSIBLE!!
INCLUDING THE RECONNECTION CHARGE, WE HAVE TO MAKE A PAYMENT OF $425 TO GET BACK ONLINE. ALL DEPENDS ON YOU GUYS NOW!


- SHAREEF

[vladsmythe]

Yesterday KGO AM radio in San Francisco dedicated the entire 3 hour Ronn Owens show to the Bay Area Food Banks. A $1.00 dollar donation buys $4.00 dollars of food for hungry people. Seems like a better donation to me at this time.

[nutzrocker]

How very true

[mooncusser]

Shareef should sell t-shirts. He'd get the $$ in a flash!


mobile PWing device

[dasmueller]

[vladsmythe]

"I donated to HungerCity for 3 years and all I got was this lousy T-shirt"

I think that would actually entice donations.

[zag]

[thejackfate]

May I suggest,that all HC memembers that are unhappy with the situation and have contributed in the last few months,make a complaint to paypal for the return of their money,all monies will then be frozen in the recipients account until a satisfactory explanation is received .If that explanation is not forth coming then donations will be refunded.

[RamesesII]

Everyone should of course complain to Paypal although they won't be entitled to a refund as they did not purchase anything "tangible". Paying for a service or making a fraudulent donation is not covered by Paypal's refund policy.

I called Paypal earlier today and made a complaint to their Fraud Department. If everybody else does the same then we might be able to stop this guy conning people out of their hard earned cash.

[thejackfate]

Thanks for the clarification. I woulkd think if paypal have enough complaints then the account will be closed

[U2Lynne]

Wow, this is pretty sad. Hungercity has been around for a long time and it's sad to see it go under such bad circumstances. It reminds me of the demise of STG where we Mods were all trying to hold things together and Gray was nowhere to be found and so we really had no idea what was going on. When things are so dire, it isn't a good time for the site owner to go into hiding.

And $425 due just to get the site going for another month? Good luck with that. This site's server costs are about $150 a month and we just get by (no complaints from me as we are making the payments and we aren't here to make a profit!).

Originally Posted by thejackfate

Thanks for the clarification. I woulkd think if paypal have enough complaints then the account will be closed

I don't expect (nor did I ask for) a refund, but I filed a complaint this morning after reading that others were doing the same. Here's hoping that justice is served and that his account is terminated (with prejudice).

[RamesesII]

Ok guys and gals I'm copying here a post I made on the HC Forum - expect it might not last long and there seems to be much more traffic here

Complain To The Paypal Fraud Dept Now Guys & Gals!!!

Post by ozark » Sat Sep 28, 2013 5:39 pm

As Simonlofc said on the What Is Up With HC Now thread complain to Paypal!!! Some of us have already done so but the more who complain the better. I called Paypal this morning and got through to the Fraud Department who are looking at it. We need more complaints - urgently!!!! Not everyone will know this is a scam and there could still be some donations being sent. We need to get this donation accounts closed by Paypal.

When you call ask to be referred to the Fraud Department. You can't get your money back as they won't refund you for a service or donation - just for a tangible item sent in the post. What you can do though is stop anyone else being conned into parting with their hard earned cash.

Don't just make an online complaint. Call them!!!. Click on Help on the top tool bar then on Contact Us on the right in the next screen click on Call Us on the left and on the right hand side of the page you will get a One Off Passcode and a telephone number for customer service. Make a note of your passcode. You will also need the telephone number on your Paypal account (I forgot which one I had on it and had to start again!!) and also the last four digits of the credit or banker's card you have on your account. Tell them what's going on - how for the second time in two months ShaReeF has closed HC and demanded money on line to re-open it. Only ShaReeF and Paypal know how much he's collected.

Do it now guys!!!!!!

Just let me tell you that I find this very painful - I loved HC and made some great online friends here. Miss it like hell.