I came on here to vent about a situation that has come about lately. As some of you know i filmed a few bands at a recent festival down here in Australia. I was originally going to tape the bands i intended on taping but was asked a favor by a certain respected member on this forum if i was to change my plans and film some shows for him and i agreed to do this in exchange for 2 of his masters he had filmed. I decided i would help him out because he had done many things for this community and was a respectable person here and i am a generally a good person and know what it means to re-live concerts i attend.
So the day comes of the festival. I end up skipping some bands my partner wanted to see and met him b4 one band was about to start. I thought this was going to be a good friendship or contact forming so i filmed the show to his wishes so he could be front row. I later spend the rest of my afternoon/evening filming more bands for this person so he could be happy and relive these shows at a later date.
Fast forward to the next week. I spend the next 2 weeks of my time syncing up and authoring my masters only to get asked if i could send one certain show as a priority for him which i agreed and sent out this show to him. I then waited sometime for him to contact me to confirm he received the show to which i was informed he did and that I was not allowed to trade out my own master/authored copy of this show to anyone. I found this quite rude and unjust at somebody telling me what i can and cannot do with my own master. I also found out this person was PAYED tickets/accommodation and extra costs to film more shows for another collector whilst i happily did this free of charge and out of my own good will.
The person works a lot and only gets a certain time period of his busy commitments which i understand and respect and had no intention of intruding. I sent out all the other shows he requested of me some week later and awaited his response in regard to receiving and watching the shows. I sent him a message asking if he had indeed sent out one of the shows he promised to send only to get verbally abused over and over and just felt quite shocked that someone i had done a huge favor for was just being rude to me for asking a simple question. So a few days later i finally received 2 dvds in the mail...1 which was his mater which i am grateful for and another which was badly compressed onto 1 dvd and FUCKING watermarked? I sent him 7 dvds in total only to get 2 back and now is unwatchable with this giant watermark across it.
To me this is utter crap and i believe he has ripped other people off thus the reason he is not seen around on these forums before. I have send him messages asking him to finish the trade as promised and to resend the 2 dvds i asked for of this show watermarked only to be ignored.
I have left his name out of here because i have somewhat the tiniest bit of respect left for him in a final hope he does complete the deal/trade we organized.
I am not very happy i spent my time and effort for someone who is greedy and doesn't give a crap about others hard work just because he wants to have certain shows and calls my masters Poxy.
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