April 27, 2009
Hi, Jo-I have put together a list of all current user names and passwords for the BoydCoddington.com web site servers.
You already have the user name and password for your domain name registrar at Enom.com, of course.
Before I sent the information out, though, I wanted to also speak with my attorney regarding our signed contract, which has been in breach for 27 days. We reviewed all of the work that I have done for you, the letters written and sent, the hours of research invested into your trademark and copyright status, the veiled threats from the "Sons of Boyd" I have endured, the frequent updating and editing, the Google AdSense ad placements, RSS set-up, the search engine optimization, Google site map, the photo gallery and wall paper downloads, and front page design work, plus the building of the PromorEvents site including the design, coding, server and domain set-up, video files, Flash coding, and all the rest that was never part of our original contract in the first place.
As I understand it, you were paying someone (I hope it was not the incompetent Luis FX what's-his-name...) $11,000 per month to build and maintain the BoydCoddington.com site.
I have given you much better service and results for less than a quarter of that amount.
I believe you are certainly in a difficult position - but believe me, ours is far worse.
I sympathize with what you are going through following the loss of your husband and the hostile takeover of everything BoydCoddington by the "SOB", as well as the inability of any of your four attorneys to accomplish anything on your behalf in more than a years time.
I have neither the financial resources nor the will to try and enforce our signed contract and demand payment for the agreement we have and the work that has already been done on your behalf. The only protection I have against being abandoned and left behind are the user names and passwords for the two sites I have built and rebuilt in fulfillment - and far beyond - of our mutually agreed upon one year contract.
With all of this in mind, my attorney has strongly advised me against releasing any of the access information for the servers where the BC site is hosted, until our one year contract has come to an end and the commitments made therein are fulfilled.
I've really enjoyed working with you and I like you very much personally. But I have to think of my own family and my future, as well. I must begin to try and recover some of the clients I turned away once I began working on the BC project and seek out new clients that will help generate enough money for my family.
If you would like to post an add for the sale of your home or any type of property on the BC site, I would be glad to do that for you, although I would recommend against it. If it's come to that, you might want to consider simply selling the BoydCoddington.com domain name; it could be worth thousands of dollars and I could advise you as to how you would go about doing that.
But user names and passwords for the current BC web site will not be released until our business contract has been honored and all payments agreed to have been paid. And since the contract is already in breach, my attorney has advised that I take both web sites down as of May 1st, 2009, until such time as the terms of our contract are honored.
All I have tried to do is help and to do what I promised to do, and I feel I have fully complied with our agreement from October of last year.
Good luck to you and good luck to us in the days ahead; it sounds like we're both going to need it!
Bob
The Surfboard"