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Beware of Fraudulent Cards Sold By Keith Dumoulinpage  1 2 

Gunnar von Boehn
(Apollo Team Member)
Posts 6207
02 Mar 2018 11:47


Background story:
 
Igor did design the Vampire V500 and the Vampire V500 V2+.
After Igor did design the V500 he did some measurements
and was not fully happy with the card.
He decided that he wanted a higher quality for the customers and designed the improved V500 V2+ and it was decided that the V500 should NEVER be sold to users.
   
Keith Dumoulin stole files from Igor Majsta server and populated those V500 cards which should never had been sold.
   
Keith is motivated by greed - and does not care about users getting bad cards or about the teams reputation.
 
 
If you assume that you bought a fake card, then please contact us directly with information from whom you bought the card and when.
We will try to solve this matter and we will help you.
 
 
In case that you really got a fake card,
we would advice you contact Paypal customer protection to reclaim your money.
 
 


Sebastian Blanco

Posts 148
03 Mar 2018 04:16


The fake cards got green pcbs on them ?
  like this one:
  EXTERNAL LINK 
or this

EXTERNAL LINK


Henryk Richter
(Apollo Team Member)
Posts 128/ 1
03 Mar 2018 08:24


Sebastian Blanco wrote:

  The fake cards got green pcbs on them ?
    like this one:
    EXTERNAL LINK 

  All legitimate V500's are black. Some team-internal prototypes (developer cards) came with other colors.


Markus Jehuty

Posts 10
03 Mar 2018 09:20


So all Fake Cards are V500 V2 not V2+ ?
I got a black V2+ card but forgot to register.


Miki Popovic

Posts 16
03 Mar 2018 11:16


Markus Klotzberg wrote:

So all Fake Cards are V500 V2 not V2+ ?
  I got a black V2+ card but forgot to register.

But you can register now or any time you want..


Gunnar von Boehn
(Apollo Team Member)
Posts 6207
03 Mar 2018 11:28


Miki Popovic wrote:

But you can register now or any time you want..

We are not letting users down.

Even if you got a cloned card  - we will help you and enabled you to run GOLD 2.7.

But you need to register your card for this
and you need to do this fast.
This free registration options for cloned cards will be closed soon.

 




Markus Jehuty

Posts 10
03 Mar 2018 14:39


I don´t think that my card is a clone. And meanwhile i done the registration.


David Wright

Posts 373
03 Mar 2018 16:14


So what does Mr. Dumoulin have to say for himself?
Any defense or explanation?


Mr-Z EdgeOfPanic

Posts 189
03 Mar 2018 16:24


David Wright wrote:

So what does Mr. Dumoulin have to say for himself?
  Any defense or explanation?

Not much other then making wild accusations and getting himself banned almost everywhere.


Chris Jones

Posts 11
11 Mar 2018 17:11


He denies the accusations entirely. Has anyone posted any proof of these cards existing, with proof that people bought them from Keith?


Chris Jones

Posts 11
11 Mar 2018 17:18


(for example I believe it's the case that some of the people who got early test team cards have sold the old green v500 cards, also I believe kipper had a hard drive crash at some point and lost some serial numbers. I see a lot of certainty about the accusations of clones existing, but I've not seen any proof)


Mr Niding

Posts 459
11 Mar 2018 19:46


I have a Kippercard, and Im very happy with it. Likewise Kipper provided very good service etc.

That said; I registered my card as soon as it opened up, so if my serial nr was lost in the harddisk crash, it got re-verified by me directly.


Gunnar von Boehn
(Apollo Team Member)
Posts 6207
11 Mar 2018 20:43


Chris Jones wrote:

He denies the accusations entirely.

So he is a liar?
But we know this already.

Keith has a history of not speaking the truth.
Keith posted a lot of lies about Igor, Kippa,
and posted made up number of license costs.

Be careful when you do business with him.
And if you buy any Vampires from him - you need be aware that GOLD 2.7, and future cores will not work on it.



Vojin Vidanovic
(Needs Verification)
Posts 1916/ 1
11 Mar 2018 21:26


Gunnar von Boehn wrote:

  Be careful when you do business with him.
  And if you buy any Vampires from him - you need be aware that GOLD 2.7, and future cores will not work on it.

Now with authorized dealers one should not buy it via ebay, with expection with direct majsta sales.

Sad end of someone who demonstrated Vampire on Amiga 1000 on You Tube and I suppose was interestee at some point of time.



Chris Jones

Posts 11
12 Mar 2018 09:19


@Gunnar: I don't see much point in going back and forth about this with just words. I note that when I asked if there is any evidence of fraudulent vampires, or evidence that Keith was involved, none was presented.

Now, you don't owe me any evidence, because I'm just some random guy, but I think it's a little unfair to ask the whole community to believe this accusation without showing any proof.


Igor Majstorovic
(Apollo Team Member)
Posts 406
12 Mar 2018 09:34



 

 

 

 

 

I m sure that other team members have more imgs to show.


Sean Sk

Posts 488
12 Mar 2018 11:04


Keith Dumoulin goes under the name of Freemilk in the other forums doesn't he?


David Wright

Posts 373
12 Mar 2018 12:59


Well, we ask for proof and we got it now. Unscrupulous to say the least, or larcenous.


Sebastian Blanco

Posts 148
12 Mar 2018 14:52


Man from that facebook post that keith guy make you angry just by reading it. He deserves no less than a punch in the face, he have the gut to rob majesta publish his work and then ask him for the core ?.

Every day you get surprised from the kind of shitty people one can find on the amiga community.


Manfred Bergmann

Posts 226
12 Mar 2018 14:54


Sebastian Blanco wrote:

Every day you get surprised from the kind of shitty people one can find on the amiga community.

I don't think this is restricted to the Amiga community.
There are shitty people everywhere.

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