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I do appreciate Eli reaching out to me today and taking ownership of the situation. We cleared the air over a phone call and while I haven’t received any payments yet, I’m hopeful we’re heading in the right direction. I will gladly post an update if/when this is resolved, and look forward to putting this behind both of us.
What caused issue with me was his answers in the AMA, I haven't read Eli's book. If you’ve left a negative Amazon review on the book due to reading these threads, please do me a favor and remove it so we can keep the discussion here. Thanks all.
Good luck, Cole, and I hope you get paid.
Unfortunately, there is a very similar situation playing out in the NYPokerKing thread.
The scammer reaches out to the victim on a private phone call, acts very nice and agreeable, and promises payments in pieces.
The first small payment comes, and then the rest never do.
I've seen this occur countless times. It's directly from the Scammer/Deadbeat 101 Playbook. Claim you're going to make good when the heat turns up, make one small good faith payment, perhaps make a second payment, and then vanish.
My guess is that he's trying to scrounge up money to pay you for appearance sake, but if it was that easy, he would have done it weeks ago.
Pretty sure you're going to get one payment soon, and maybe a second one, and then the excuses/ghosting will start again.
On a side note, I had a dream last night about calling and talking to Eli about this situation, so perhaps I should start spending less time in this thread.