Fed-X
08-24-2003, 01:40 PM
This is a notice to everyone that is considering hiring Corey Wojen , www.Ravio.com, or www.vbskins.com to do any design work for you. Corey / Ravio have screwed a large number of people in the last 2 year to the tune of many thousands of dollars, not to mention lost time and revenue.
What primarily happens is people end up paying him 1/2 or full down and he disappears without a trace for months at a time. If & when he returns, he has a number of excuses, many of them that are grossly repetitive and unrealistic.
I first became a client of his back in October of 2001. I paid him to design my first online community. At that time he was doing work for about $150.00 for a simple design. I was happy with the work but it still took weeks longer than I was told and many of the features promised to me ended up not being implemented into the design.
There probably would not have been a second time if there had been anyone else doing nice custom designs, but my options were limited. I contracted Corey to build a high-end custom design for my second online community, www.PWCRacer.com, and this is where I had major problems with Corey that have continued until this day.
I paid him $550.00 for this design and was told it would be ready in two weeks. Two weeks came and went and I absolutely could not get a hold of him. After a month, I had a relative contact him in regards to design work and he answered right away. He had been totally ignoring my emails and pleas to at least contact me.
Now that I had finally gotten in contact with him, he told me he was busy and did not have time to design my site!! He offered a refund and I stated that was not going to be good enough! I had already lost three advertising sponsors for the new community, and had spread to everyone that I raced with and online about our grand opening, which had now past.
I was looking like a total chump and feeling like one too.
At this point I made a post at www.vBulletin.org about this incident with him, and he had it erased, as he was a moderator there at the time.
He finally designed my site after I strong-armed him, but it was considerably lame compared to what I wanted and in comparison to some of his other designs. I had to suck it up and deal with it because I just wasn't going to get any more out of him.
There were a number of things that were not completed that I needed on the site and he promised to add ASAP. Over a year later, these things still have not been completed. Further, when he went into fix the photo gallery after all this time, there was some type of error and it was rendered completely inoperable. This would have been fine but Corey disappeared once again and it has been over a month now that our Photo Post photo gallery has been offline!
There is much more to all of this. I just wanted to get the word out so that hopefully no one else will be a victim.
There is a site dedicated to warning the public about him that includes submissions by individuals and companies that have been robbed by him.
Site URL: www.RavioWarning.com
Here are links to threads addressing problems with Corey / Ravio on various sites. All of these people can give you more details if you are considering using Ravio / Corey Wojen. Do yourself a favor and ASK before you PAY dearly!
Most detailed thread at Web Hosting Talk Forums. Many people here that have had problems with him!
http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=162298
Here is a thread in the design community that he started. They used to love him there but even they know he is screwing people right and left and are sick about it. (This may not be around long. I think he still has the power to delete threads here)
http://forum.yaxay.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=20487&perpage=10&pagenumber=3
And another one in the vBulletin.org design community where my original thread about this was deleted.
http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=56241
And the one at the main vBulletin.com software community forums, which was shut down by an admin over there.. Imagine that!?
http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=72535&highlight=ravio
http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=73614&highlight=ravio
What primarily happens is people end up paying him 1/2 or full down and he disappears without a trace for months at a time. If & when he returns, he has a number of excuses, many of them that are grossly repetitive and unrealistic.
I first became a client of his back in October of 2001. I paid him to design my first online community. At that time he was doing work for about $150.00 for a simple design. I was happy with the work but it still took weeks longer than I was told and many of the features promised to me ended up not being implemented into the design.
There probably would not have been a second time if there had been anyone else doing nice custom designs, but my options were limited. I contracted Corey to build a high-end custom design for my second online community, www.PWCRacer.com, and this is where I had major problems with Corey that have continued until this day.
I paid him $550.00 for this design and was told it would be ready in two weeks. Two weeks came and went and I absolutely could not get a hold of him. After a month, I had a relative contact him in regards to design work and he answered right away. He had been totally ignoring my emails and pleas to at least contact me.
Now that I had finally gotten in contact with him, he told me he was busy and did not have time to design my site!! He offered a refund and I stated that was not going to be good enough! I had already lost three advertising sponsors for the new community, and had spread to everyone that I raced with and online about our grand opening, which had now past.
I was looking like a total chump and feeling like one too.
At this point I made a post at www.vBulletin.org about this incident with him, and he had it erased, as he was a moderator there at the time.
He finally designed my site after I strong-armed him, but it was considerably lame compared to what I wanted and in comparison to some of his other designs. I had to suck it up and deal with it because I just wasn't going to get any more out of him.
There were a number of things that were not completed that I needed on the site and he promised to add ASAP. Over a year later, these things still have not been completed. Further, when he went into fix the photo gallery after all this time, there was some type of error and it was rendered completely inoperable. This would have been fine but Corey disappeared once again and it has been over a month now that our Photo Post photo gallery has been offline!
There is much more to all of this. I just wanted to get the word out so that hopefully no one else will be a victim.
There is a site dedicated to warning the public about him that includes submissions by individuals and companies that have been robbed by him.
Site URL: www.RavioWarning.com
Here are links to threads addressing problems with Corey / Ravio on various sites. All of these people can give you more details if you are considering using Ravio / Corey Wojen. Do yourself a favor and ASK before you PAY dearly!
Most detailed thread at Web Hosting Talk Forums. Many people here that have had problems with him!
http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=162298
Here is a thread in the design community that he started. They used to love him there but even they know he is screwing people right and left and are sick about it. (This may not be around long. I think he still has the power to delete threads here)
http://forum.yaxay.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=20487&perpage=10&pagenumber=3
And another one in the vBulletin.org design community where my original thread about this was deleted.
http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=56241
And the one at the main vBulletin.com software community forums, which was shut down by an admin over there.. Imagine that!?
http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=72535&highlight=ravio
http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=73614&highlight=ravio