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Originally Posted by pontylad
There is a lot of stuff in that list that sounds so stupid/strange that it's giving me a hard time believing it.
Didn't want the hassle of getting paid the $90k he was owed? accepting 1.2k? No way that is real/how it is portrayed.
It's not even a case of whether the contract was unfair or not, no way he originally agreed to it thinking he was getting a bad deal or he wouldn't have done it.
If you make an agreement then change your mind and find a loophole to break it then you should expect to be viewed as untrustworthy. Not sure how people put blame for this on upswing, He was happy with an agreement until he thought he should earn more money. That's why you do your research, have a lawyer help you with the contract and make sure you only sign a contract that you are happy with. All these grievances should have been mitigated, rather than agreeing x then ****ing over the other party because you regret it.
I don't know anything about how this would work, but his explanation seems reasonable. Sueing out Switzerland would be expensive and it still wouldn't gurantee that he would get paid and I assume he would have to travel and spend time dealing with it, which could be stressful so it might be okay to let it go. My impression is that at this point he already talked with a lawyer about it.
I also think he was fine with the 30% cut, (obv wasn't super happy about it, but he said okay to that) but what pushed him over was the fact that Doug tried to take care of his boy, Joey, which is admirable to an extent, but this happened at the expense of JNandez, so he found a way out of the contract. If what JNandez said is true, than Joey got paid for essentialy doing nothing, because he never made those extra videos. Someone who bought the course through his link maybe could confirm this. I think the Upswing team definietly took advantage of his lack of experience.
The irony of this whole thing is that Doug ****ed over one of his fan (JNandez) just like he kinda got ****ed over by Ben86 and Doug was a fan of him.