Stick it to the company:

[Blaster86]

Originally Posted by Kybosh

How to win friends and influence people.

First thing I thought about as I read this. What a cluster ####. It's a shame that this device actually apparently had some sort of use and now you have to wonder if it is ever gonna see the light of day in a full release.

[Nage Waza]

I think the video game community is tight enough to know that this ###### was the problem, not the company itself. At least I hope so...I am always worried about getting older and having bad hands, any product that will help me play vids when I am 100 I will totally support.

[McG]

The threads have been very, very entertaining.

It goes way deeper though than just one 'roid raging, tropical fish lovin', overstepping his bounds customer service guy. If you follow through on the threads, you will see that the owner of the company (the teacher) has also been posting positive reviews of his product and negative reviews of competitors products on amazon.com (quite an ethical no-no), and the company has been billing for products that aren't even in the country (contravenes visa and mastercard rules).

The funny thing is that it isn't the first time that the Christoforo guy gave bad service either...it just seems that "Customer Dave" found a sympathetic voice with the Penny Arcade guy.

The whole episode is well on its way to becoming a Harvard Business Review Case Study.

[chemgear]

^ haha, I stopped paying attention a while back but I guess the moron just can't quit:


http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news...-Former-Client

He's managed to very publicly disown and denounce Christoforo (going so far as to say that there "isn't a bus big enough for me to throw Paul Christoforo under") and has personally taken to Twitter to answer people's questions about the situation. Tonight, though, Chiullan set up a Reddit AMA to directly respond to all the questions and revealed that his predecessor isn't done making life difficult for N-Control: It turns out the man is trying to extort some serious cash from them.



This is also a great link - man, check all those updates!!

http://www.examiner.com/video-game-i...id-at-all-cost

[chemgear]

Interview with the dude later in the week, this is just a promo for it:

http://www.gametrailers.com/video/ep...7-gt-tv/725469

[Pizza]

wow, got a good look at this D-bag on a promo on gametrailers

http://www.gametrailers.com/video/ep...7-gt-tv/725469