Does somebody have info about tboulley

Hi,

I have bought fews modules from tboulley but know there are gone from the market, and his profile is deleted :-(

any informations ?

Thanks

I think there was a support issue with tboulley; the account may have been suspended.  This is a problem though if someone needed access to modules they purchased.  The key here is to download all your modules, back up to a disc, back up to an off-site storage.

Yes, tboulley was suspended for a week because he went MIA after a dispute. I'm afraid I don't have the ability to restore access to market item downloads, but BoonEx is aware and will hopefully code something in soon.

 There's been a few times and many lost modules later I wish I had done this ...

google drive online is a safe spot too I still have scripts  stashed in there from way back when it was called google docs . I do not download google drive ... dont want or need that crap on my computer . I just put things in a folder and zip it up.

 Thanks for the answer, but if I understand correctly, he was suspended because he was not answering your mail and for one dispute with one only customer...???

So now others customers that need to contact him, download purchased modules ,... lost everything ?

There have been more problems with him then just one customer.

His mods will be back when his account is re-enabled, or when boonex adds the system to allow downloads from suspended members which i guess they plan on doing soon.

For a week, I'm afraid so. When his account returns, I recommend downloading your purchases - this should be common practice anyway. I'll likely hold-off on another suspension until BoonEx makes the needed changes. I can't treat vendors as untouchable, however. Apologies for the inconvenience - I don't like having to inadvertently punish customers as well.

You could try to contact at his website http://www.dolphinmodules.com/

The module are now back in the market. thanks.

And Tboulley is also back on dolphin.

It annoys me when tboulley sells mods which are free else where.  For example:

http://www.boonex.com/m/site-monitor-for-dolphin

This can be found for FREE at: http://www.phpservermonitor.org/

I'm going to look for mods posted by this person to see if they're available elsewhere for FREE.

I'm not impressed.

his price are too high!!! 

splash page 75$ ?!

http://www.boonex.com/m/parallax-mobile-splash-ii

and it don't have form!!

If you think his prices are too high, you don't have to buy the modules.  That is a mute point because you are not forced to buy from any vendor.

Perhaps what you are buying is the integration into Dolphin; have you considered that?

 Not sure if any rules are broken, I just think it's shady to do this.

http://www.boonex.com/m/web-3-0-fluidity-splash

is made with this,

http://html5up.net/uploads/demos/big-picture/

http://www.boonex.com/m/video-mobile-splash

is made with this,

http://mobirise.com/

These are nothing more than a splash page made with these "free" products.

 i bought many modules from the market. and even if i sum them up it don't get to this price.

i think the mute point is yours geek_girl

 Wow - I almost bought his splash page made with mobirise for $75.... That's a tad shady.  Thanks Newton for the link so I can do it for free now.

Moot.. Not mute...

Thank you for the correction.  Do you want to compare university degrees?  How about skills levels; not just in the area of computers but other areas as well?  I think I will end up doing quite well.

Personally, I would prefer when GG had 'mute' points.

 Wow, I was actually correcting the other person, I didn't even notice you did it too. But as always thanks for your kind words.

 We sure you got some skills girl...

Where's 7.2 ? 

You people are always crying the blues when you purchase something that you say can be found for free, or created with a free program.

Sure some of my mods were created using either open source code or free code found around the web in dark little corners where someone like yourself would never have the chance to find.

Then we spend time modifying the code, adding images that you can legally use (which are not cheap) and then the most important part of all, integrating this code into the Dolphin platform.

Sure I used a program to create 4 splash pages, and I used the software to add all of the text and images for you, so that you don't have to spend money and time doing it, and then I integrated the splash pages into the Dolphin platform.

So let me guess, where you found these same free files or free program to create a splash do they also include all of the free images, text and free integration into your Dolphin site?

You are like those same people who buy a car and then find out 4 months later that you can buy that car for 1/2 of what you paid, and then you run into the dealership crying because you don't find it fair, expecting them to give you back 1/2 your money .

Plugins for Wordpress work the same way, you can find a plugin like the following being sold for many many different prices around the web:

http://goblogmarketing.com/jvz/wpscarcityplus/   ($9.95)

https://www.fiverr.com/quinnj102/sell-you-wp-scarcity-plus-wordpress-plugin  ($5.00)

Do you think everyone cries like a baby when they paid $10.00 for their plugin when they could have purchased the same plugin somewhere else for only $5.00? No, they just kick themselves in the ass for not spending an extra few days searching the web for a better price. But not here in the market, no not at all. You people slander and request investigations and that vendors be banned or punished.

Do you think I am the only one here who sells products using code that you can purchase with a developer license? This is the norm around the Internet, except for here in the Boonex Market.

Why would anyone reinvent the wheel, is that really necessary here? It should be based on what we do with that code to make it usable for you on the Dolphin platform.

So many times I have heard complaints about someone buying a mod used from source code, they whine when they find out they could get it for free, sure you could, but that is all you get, is the code. Now do something with it. Can you integrate it into Dolphin? Or do you think someone should do that free for you as well.

Well let me enlighten you all a bit. There are many mods here in the market selling for $40.00 or $50.00 which you can actually by the code yourself for as low $7.00, such as the following here:

Paypal Recurring Donations Module - Selling for $34.00
http://www.boonex.com/m/paypal-recurring-one-time-donations-for-dolphin

BUT

You can purchase the code here for only $8.00
http://codecanyon.net/item/paypal-recurring-online-donation-form/3187531

Free SMS Sender - Selling for $34.00
http://www.boonex.com/m/sms-sender-send-sms-messages-to-any-cell-phone-f

BUT

You can purchase the code here for only $20.00
http://scripteen.com/item/scripts/scripteen-free-sms-script.html

SoundCloud - $44.00
http://www.boonex.com/m/soundcloud-import-embed-connect-version-3-0-0-im

BUT

You can purchase the code here for only $7.00
http://codecanyon.net/item/soundcloud-search-api-integration/3378704

Now I am sorry to have to bring another developer into this but I am sick and tired of always being the scapegoat here in the market. Wake up people, I created some products that your imagination or skills would not allow you to create yourself. Then when you find out I used a free program or some code purchased and you react like I stole your first born child, rather than admit you purchased something that you thought at the time would improve your site, and if you had not known that a free program or free or purchased code was used, you wouldn't care. Don't you think the time involved to create, customize integrate, make sure it is search engine optimized and support it when you have issues is worth what you pay for a product? If you don't then why did you purchase it in the first place.

Someone finds bananas in the jungle and brings them back to America to sell them to you, do you freak out when you realized that you could have went into the jungle and picked them for free? To make sure this never happens to you maybe you should all go into the jungle and pick your own damn bananas.

I could not be happier to be leaving the Boonex Market, it is time to move on to bigger and better things.

To all my clients please feel free to contact me via my direct email address and I thank you for your patronage and support over the years.

Good luck and cheers to all!

Hahah.  Bye tboulley.  Integrating a splash page that you didn't even develop is not worth $75.  Good riddance dude.

I personally recommend to message first the developer before purchasing  and clarify things first its the best way..


Lets grow together as Dolphin grow..

Just my opinion..

 I love you too HL.

@tboulley

So you are going to let this person's whining drive you away?  If you do that, then they win.  Don't give them the satisfaction.

Why don't you go and see the cost for acquiring the rights to redistribute images before you determined the value of the module. Or sit down and do some coding so you can see how much time is spent. 

Many modules in the market are under priced in relation to the amount of time that was spent developing them.

I probably overreacted, but felt like it would have better business on his end to at least give credit to mobirise for the splash page. There was no unique coding on his part.  He may have put his own images in, but I would have used my own anyway. I just personally feel it was a little shady, but you're right I don't have to buy his mods and I won't.

The person had quoted me.  If you had said, I think you meant... , and then had actually added your opinion on the topic then maybe I wouldn't have gotten upset.  Everyone makes mistakes.  I often type "mute" when I mean "moot" and I know the meaning of both of the words.  It is just something I do and usually I will catch it.  No human is perfect, not even houstonlively.  We type on the forums in real time and often things will slip by; it is difficult to proofread one's own writing which is why authors pay others to proofread their manuscripts.

The all point of open source is free hence its growth in this era 

for instance deanon free module "deano tools" brought me to purchase dolphin.

and i bought another module from him later. because he is fair and has quality.

when people like tboulley make static page, splash page without a even a lousy form

and sell it for 75$ while dolphin licence was 99$ (in my days) with all the modules include. its real shady.

Do you know what I do when I see a product that I don't like the price of?

 This is exactly my thoughts.

It's fine to use something to build it, just credit all sources!

 All good webmasters actually create images for their websites, I do. I have professional camera equipment and friends willing to help. This is no excuse.

It's common sense that you wouldn't use the images provided for their demo.

Not necessarily; there are many photo/image repositories where one can buy the rights to use photos and you have a large amount to choose from.  I can not take a trip to India to take my own photographs; however, with the photo repositories, I can peruse and choose images and then pay for the right to use them.  This really makes good sense from a business perspective; much cheaper than a ticket to India.

Dolphin has code developed by others that is not listed.  They keep the licenses intact in the code view itself but they don't list all the code developed by others.  It is not necessary for anyone to list code from others as long as they keep the proper license notices as required by the license.  If you are going to fault tboulley on this matter then you need to fault Andrew Boone as well.

I am a code canyon regular.  I realized this was happening a long time ago.  I actually paid $50  here for a code canyon module that was $12.  I knowingly did this because it was integrated into the Dolphin platform.  Now the module doesn't work and the author is a no show or? atleast a no reply.  The module is Social Slider by alcodev.  This person has a 60% rating from customers and still has a broken product for sale in the market.  Boonex needs to clean up the market and take some sort of control to prevent market saturation while keeping some vendor freedoms.  Code canyon stuff is too cheap and those guys make squat on their products over there.  It's nice that Boonex allows vendors to actually profit from their work. Only my opinion that mods here are extremely too expensive.  The new license fee coming out soon is too expensive.  The current license fees are too expensive.  I suppose we will have an elite 100 instead of a happy 1000 who can buy license and help the product grow.  I'm gettting off topic. My big question. Is it legal take someones licensed work from code canyon, integrate it into dolphin and charge for it as your product? I don't mind it but I need the legal aspect of it.  I can't fathom how its acceptable without the original authors permission.

The whole f market is shit ! I always said the prices for some module in this Market are way too expensive !!!

Honestly ...

Anyway where's 7.2 ?

Unrelated, but Andrew said it's due on or around September 1st.

Regarding tboulley, he recently suspended his own profile due to a dispute with a former customer. As a developer needs to keep their profile accessible, he's decided to pull out of the market. He says he's sending out his contact information to his customers, so you'll need to send him an email if there's an issue with any of his products.

As for alcodev, I'll take a closer look and make sure they're still around. It looks like neither of their products have compatibility information - never buy a product with unspecified compatibility without first checking with the developer. And if they don't respond... well, there's your answer. But we can't do anything unless we receive reports, and the only way to do that is to send a PM to me or another mod.

I understand that for sure.  Thats great advice and I agree fully.  I purchased the mod a long long time ago.  It hasn't been but since the YT api change that I've tried to contact alcodev about it.  This is when I've noticed his decline in customer reviews (non of my business).  I chose to purchase and it was right for me at the time and suited my needs.  I own it and actually had positive things to say about the integration as you will see on the product listing review.  I should have clicked to report the listing.  I have allowed over ample time for a response.  Thanks for checking it out for me.  I will have to figure a fix myself soon.  I am not complaining about my purchase.  I was just looking to repair the existing module.

tboulley is now permanently suspended. Anyone willing to get in touch with them should seek direct contact (use payment information for details). Anyone willing to request refunds is advised to act through payment processor (PayPal, 2CO).

Issue closed.

It depends on the license.  Many licenses will allow you to integrate the code into a product that you can resell.  

Can we, the community know why tboulley was permanently suspended?  Transparency is important if we are to feel good about being a part of the Dolphin community.

Issue closed?  I think more discussion on this is needed; especially if you want people to come into Boonex and feel comfortable selling modules.

GG - Here's an example of tboulley's shady behavior - Selling MobiRise splash pages for $75.  This requires zero integration, other than installing it.  Yes, he changed the text and pictures around, but anyone buying the splash pages would customize it to there site anyways, so literally no value to the end user. Especially when they could use the mobirise software for free and build their splash page to their liking without having to go through tboulley. Also, he was not compliant with Mobirise's terms of use; specifially, "You MAY NOT sublicense, lease, rent, sell this software to other person or business" 

Source: http://mobirise.com/license.txt

It would be different if he got MobiRise's permission and explained this in his market page for these products, but he didn't.  This is just ONE example.  Look at all of his products and you'll see a trend.  Yes, one could make the argument that if you don't like it, then don't buy it.  However, newcomers will be more trusting of anything listed in the market and won't do their due diligence.  For that reason, I am very supportive of Boonex's action here of suspending his account.

I do not know the person in question and when purchasing anything Caveat emptor (let the buyer beware) is a wise way to conduct business But I do have to point out that  dudical24 your allegation is unfoundended and untrue the licence granted by mobirise was not breached Mobirise.com grants you a non-exclusive license to use Mobirise v1 for any legal purpose. 2. Mobirise v1 is free for both personal and commercial use. Back links to http://mobirise.com/are not strictly required, but any form of spreading the word is always appreciated. this section of the terms are in regard to the software used to generate content 3. You MAY NOT:3.1 sublicense, lease, rent, sell this software to other person or business;But you are legally allowed to generate and sell content using the software that generates it  dudical24 If you are going to put a man on trial who clearly no longer has a voice here at least have the decency to provide evidence and facts that are both truthful and relevant 

Okay, I stand corrected.  I read that incorrectly at first and apologize.  I think it's time to move on from this topic. There's clearly a subset of the community that sits on either side of his business practices. Let's all agree to disagree here. If you want to buy his splash pages, I'm sure he'll sell them to you if you email him. 

Okay, I stand corrected.  I read that incorrectly at first and apologize.  I think it's time to move on from this topic. There's clearly a subset of the community that sits on either side of his business practices. Let's all agree to disagree here. If you want to buy his splash pages, I'm sure he'll sell them to you if you email him. 

Anybody selling cakes around here ? Not generated by software please.

As I said I do not know this person nor have I conducted business with this person and am certainly not part of any subset here. boonex is apparently built in order to promote unity which is sometimes lost in these forums .

My only interest in this instance is the truth .

To me $75 is a lot of money but I almost have the skill set and time to make my own splash page to others $75 is not a lot of money and their skill sets lay in other areas .