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		<title>By: Blog Scam Awareness Day&#160;&#124;&#160;Hope Dies Last</title>
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		<dc:creator>Blog Scam Awareness Day&#160;&#124;&#160;Hope Dies Last</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 13:12:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] Last year I wrote a detailed post about my personal experience with a particularly popular blog designer. You can read the full post here. [...]</description>
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		<title>By: Tambourine Queen</title>
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		<dc:creator>Tambourine Queen</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 00:39:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>ARRRRGGHHHH Thanks for sending me this link. THIS is EXACTLY what happened to me too, like down to the detial. I dont live in the states so its hard for me to take any legal action but I am with you all the way if you need any support on anything.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>ARRRRGGHHHH Thanks for sending me this link. THIS is EXACTLY what happened to me too, like down to the detial. I dont live in the states so its hard for me to take any legal action but I am with you all the way if you need any support on anything.</p>
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		<title>By: 35 in 2009 &#171; Hope dies last</title>
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		<dc:creator>35 in 2009 &#171; Hope dies last</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Jan 2010 20:03:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] Jessica Bailey or the (con) artist formerly known as Delicious Design Studio [...]</description>
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		<title>By: Miss Devylish</title>
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		<dc:creator>Miss Devylish</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Dec 2009 19:52:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Correct me if I&#039;m wrong - but t&#039;s and c&#039;s aside, if a business doesn&#039;t put out what they promised in writing, isn&#039;t that just plain stealing? I&#039;d move from calling her overwhelmed to con artist. Just my two cents.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Correct me if I&#8217;m wrong &#8211; but t&#8217;s and c&#8217;s aside, if a business doesn&#8217;t put out what they promised in writing, isn&#8217;t that just plain stealing? I&#8217;d move from calling her overwhelmed to con artist. Just my two cents.</p>
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		<title>By: Anonymous</title>
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		<dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 14:10:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I think Jess has a new design business. Can&#039;t be too certain, but the layout and writing style are almost identical to her past business.

And I think she&#039;s the brains behind another tattoo website that just started up. Could be the real reason as to why you all are still waiting.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I think Jess has a new design business. Can&#8217;t be too certain, but the layout and writing style are almost identical to her past business.</p>
<p>And I think she&#8217;s the brains behind another tattoo website that just started up. Could be the real reason as to why you all are still waiting.</p>
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		<title>By: Andrea</title>
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		<dc:creator>Andrea</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 03:24:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I had a similar experience. Waited a year almost for my blog to be designed after being promised it would be 6-12 weeks. But, Jess ended up coming through...almost 11 months later, of course. I got a decent design (not quite what I wanted), and she did do a lot of back and forth with me, but only after I posted an unfavorable review on Yelp.

I really think she&#039;s a talented person who got in way over her head. I&#039;m not making excuses for her. She had no business taking our money and not delivering what she had promised. But, I don&#039;t think she  sat around maliciously thinking that she&#039;d take everyone&#039;s money and not deliver. I think her intentions were good, but once her designs were noticed and the orders gained momentum, she didn&#039;t know how to say &#039;no&#039; and was afraid to turn off the spigot. It&#039;s a shame for her that her talent now has such a humongous black eye. She&#039;s a good designer but a terrible business person...She needs to just focus on design and let someone else run the business end of things.

I&#039;m so sorry for all of you have had to deal with this. I know how maddening it is.  You feel paralyzed.  Best of luck to all of you!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I had a similar experience. Waited a year almost for my blog to be designed after being promised it would be 6-12 weeks. But, Jess ended up coming through&#8230;almost 11 months later, of course. I got a decent design (not quite what I wanted), and she did do a lot of back and forth with me, but only after I posted an unfavorable review on Yelp.</p>
<p>I really think she&#8217;s a talented person who got in way over her head. I&#8217;m not making excuses for her. She had no business taking our money and not delivering what she had promised. But, I don&#8217;t think she  sat around maliciously thinking that she&#8217;d take everyone&#8217;s money and not deliver. I think her intentions were good, but once her designs were noticed and the orders gained momentum, she didn&#8217;t know how to say &#8216;no&#8217; and was afraid to turn off the spigot. It&#8217;s a shame for her that her talent now has such a humongous black eye. She&#8217;s a good designer but a terrible business person&#8230;She needs to just focus on design and let someone else run the business end of things.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m so sorry for all of you have had to deal with this. I know how maddening it is.  You feel paralyzed.  Best of luck to all of you!</p>
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		<title>By: Sunny</title>
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		<dc:creator>Sunny</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 17:31:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Here&#039;s another site I found with DDS complaints. Wish I researched before I signed up with her!

http://www.complaintsboard.com/bycompany/delicious-design-studio-a138375.html</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Here&#8217;s another site I found with DDS complaints. Wish I researched before I signed up with her!</p>
<p><a href="http://www.complaintsboard.com/bycompany/delicious-design-studio-a138375.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.complaintsboard.com/bycompany/delicious-design-studio-a138375.html</a></p>
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		<title>By: ellie</title>
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		<dc:creator>ellie</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 01:23:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hi there!  I stumbled across your thread researching my competitor, and I just wanted to throw my name out - I&#039;m Ellie, of Rainy Day Templates, and I design blogs for the Blogger platform.

I do have a short wait list, but there&#039;s absolutely no charge to be on it, and no charge to get off it it, either.

Anyway, I invite anyone who&#039;s had problems with Delicious Design, or who&#039;d like a cheap template built to their specifications, to come check out my shop.

Thanks so much. (I hope this doesn&#039;t constitute spam.)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi there!  I stumbled across your thread researching my competitor, and I just wanted to throw my name out &#8211; I&#8217;m Ellie, of Rainy Day Templates, and I design blogs for the Blogger platform.</p>
<p>I do have a short wait list, but there&#8217;s absolutely no charge to be on it, and no charge to get off it it, either.</p>
<p>Anyway, I invite anyone who&#8217;s had problems with Delicious Design, or who&#8217;d like a cheap template built to their specifications, to come check out my shop.</p>
<p>Thanks so much. (I hope this doesn&#8217;t constitute spam.)</p>
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		<title>By: Disgruntled</title>
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		<dc:creator>Disgruntled</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 06:14:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>To continue... this whole thing just makes me sick. Wish I did more research before signing up, but I thought her portfolio spoke for itself. Ha.

She does a great job of covering her ass, that&#039;s for sure. It&#039;ll all catch up with her though, I would think, if she keeps this up.

This is not customer service. Either she is running a scam or she actually believes that it&#039;s ok to treat customers like s*it if &quot;the policy&quot; covers you.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>To continue&#8230; this whole thing just makes me sick. Wish I did more research before signing up, but I thought her portfolio spoke for itself. Ha.</p>
<p>She does a great job of covering her ass, that&#8217;s for sure. It&#8217;ll all catch up with her though, I would think, if she keeps this up.</p>
<p>This is not customer service. Either she is running a scam or she actually believes that it&#8217;s ok to treat customers like s*it if &#8220;the policy&#8221; covers you.</p>
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		<title>By: Disgruntled</title>
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		<dc:creator>Disgruntled</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 05:52:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Here&#039;s my DDS story:

I wanted to have my blog professionally designed at a low cost, and I was very happy when I stumbled upon Delicious Design Studio. Jessica&#039;s portfolio looked good, and she was quick to reply to my quote request. Of course I was a bit wary hiring someone thousands of miles away, over the internet, but I put my trust into her. She was quick to take my money (paid Jan. 21, 2009 50% deposit), but soon after that things started to seem not so rosy.

I understood that Jessica is a designer with many clients, and thus the waiting list could be long, and I was fine with that. I sent her documents with my ideas, and she confirmed that she would save them until my project would begin. After asking if she had a better idea when my project would begin, she sent me an email on Feb. 27 saying that she would begin my project at the end of March. After another email from me with some questions, on March 27 I received an email from her that stated she would be back in the office &quot;on Tuesday&quot; (March 31) to look over the documents I&#039;ve sent and begin my design. So I waited patiently, but received nothing from Jessica.

Exactly one month later, on April 27, I sent Jessica an email inquiring what happened to that March 31 date since I hadn&#039;t heard from her for a month. I received no response. On May 5 I sent her another email, asking the same questions and asking her why she did not reply to my previous (April 27) email. I stated that I was still willing to work with her despite the lack of communication on her part. On May 5 I received a reply to my email, where she stated that a family member passed away and she is extremely busy. Somewhere between May 5 and June 4 I sent Jessica an email asking for a refund. No reply. June 4th I received an email from her explaining that she has had a bad month, wants to do my project still, etc. She does not mention my request to cancel whatsoever. On June 8 I replied to her email, asking if she received my email request to cancel and that I am sorry for her bad month, but that this has been going on far longer than this past little while. I again asked for a refund, nicely. I did mention some personal issues for me wanting to cancel - I wanted to appeal to her human side vs. going on a tirade how angry I was with her lack of customer service. Yet again, I received no response, so I sent another email on June 29 asking for a refund and pointing out that she keeps ignoring my emails. Today, June 30, I finally get a response. Jessica says that she is sorry - she &quot;somehow missed&quot; my last email (the June 8 one I guess), but that she wants to complete my project and that at the time I signed up, I was aware of the waiting list and the no-refund policy.

We&#039;ve been emailing back and forth today, and she refuses to give me a refund. Where is my project now? If she&#039;s on top of things, why have I not been asked ONE DETAIL about my blog since the March 31 &quot;start&quot; date? This is just insane. The waiting list was NOT the problem. I waited. It was her lack of responses and the falsehood of the March 31 date. I think this deserves a refund!

Worst customer service experience EVER.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Here&#8217;s my DDS story:</p>
<p>I wanted to have my blog professionally designed at a low cost, and I was very happy when I stumbled upon Delicious Design Studio. Jessica&#8217;s portfolio looked good, and she was quick to reply to my quote request. Of course I was a bit wary hiring someone thousands of miles away, over the internet, but I put my trust into her. She was quick to take my money (paid Jan. 21, 2009 50% deposit), but soon after that things started to seem not so rosy.</p>
<p>I understood that Jessica is a designer with many clients, and thus the waiting list could be long, and I was fine with that. I sent her documents with my ideas, and she confirmed that she would save them until my project would begin. After asking if she had a better idea when my project would begin, she sent me an email on Feb. 27 saying that she would begin my project at the end of March. After another email from me with some questions, on March 27 I received an email from her that stated she would be back in the office &#8220;on Tuesday&#8221; (March 31) to look over the documents I&#8217;ve sent and begin my design. So I waited patiently, but received nothing from Jessica.</p>
<p>Exactly one month later, on April 27, I sent Jessica an email inquiring what happened to that March 31 date since I hadn&#8217;t heard from her for a month. I received no response. On May 5 I sent her another email, asking the same questions and asking her why she did not reply to my previous (April 27) email. I stated that I was still willing to work with her despite the lack of communication on her part. On May 5 I received a reply to my email, where she stated that a family member passed away and she is extremely busy. Somewhere between May 5 and June 4 I sent Jessica an email asking for a refund. No reply. June 4th I received an email from her explaining that she has had a bad month, wants to do my project still, etc. She does not mention my request to cancel whatsoever. On June 8 I replied to her email, asking if she received my email request to cancel and that I am sorry for her bad month, but that this has been going on far longer than this past little while. I again asked for a refund, nicely. I did mention some personal issues for me wanting to cancel &#8211; I wanted to appeal to her human side vs. going on a tirade how angry I was with her lack of customer service. Yet again, I received no response, so I sent another email on June 29 asking for a refund and pointing out that she keeps ignoring my emails. Today, June 30, I finally get a response. Jessica says that she is sorry &#8211; she &#8220;somehow missed&#8221; my last email (the June 8 one I guess), but that she wants to complete my project and that at the time I signed up, I was aware of the waiting list and the no-refund policy.</p>
<p>We&#8217;ve been emailing back and forth today, and she refuses to give me a refund. Where is my project now? If she&#8217;s on top of things, why have I not been asked ONE DETAIL about my blog since the March 31 &#8220;start&#8221; date? This is just insane. The waiting list was NOT the problem. I waited. It was her lack of responses and the falsehood of the March 31 date. I think this deserves a refund!</p>
<p>Worst customer service experience EVER.</p>
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