HighlandLad

New member
Hello all i am new here and was recently looking for a new fta site to get my files from...so i started to look around and do some research to see who was the best at meeting these needs...

After about 6 hrs of cruzing thru the google pages i figured i had read enough.... Now im open to both sides of every story but the general consensus of pbp.com can be found at:

ht*tp://fta-haeven.com/forum/showthread.php?t=6654

obiviously remove the stat in http for link to work....

id like to hear your side of the story before invest any money into your site
 

CASPER

New member
well If you be believe what everything you hear or read .....Then if you look around and see for your self it's a different story
 

HighlandLad

New member
Well here is the thing i have read alot about u and *pbp.com* and im not an idiot its not hard to doctor your own site up to point the finger at someone else. I was hoping u could be an honest person person with me cause they like u have proof that its you who is the one to not be trusted. And thats what im trying to do is figure out which place has more genuine peoe at it. Im trying to trust u and ur showing me that they are right...
 

Cobra

Administrator
I'm sorry for how long it's taking me to respond with PBP's side of things. I'm fighting off 3 young kids and will be posting our side shortly. Please be patient with me. I assure you, things were NOT altered here in regards to what happened. I am the head of HR here at PBP and I am the one who dealt with a lot of the BS that occured.

Thanks,
Cobra
 

Cobra

Administrator
First of all, NO ONE has to invest any money here. Posting 25 times or more will gain ANYONE access to the files.

As for what is being said out there on the net, these are very angry and disgruntled individuals who are holding a grudge for things that took place here on PBP. Yes, there may have been some unnecessarily banning of some
individuals, however, not all were unjustified. Things started to heat up around here when one of our members complained about another of our members named bruksn. the complaint was about being sold an fta unit on Ebay and then
was told to come to PBP and pay for VIP for access to IKS private server.

#1) PBP does not have/give ANY access to IKS private server.
#2) This does NOT fall under "testing" and is illegal.
#3) Anyone caught doing this or suspected of doing this on our site HAVE BEEN/WILL BE dealt with accordingly.

Upon this coming to our attention, the user bruksn starting insulting CASPER, one of the Admins (which is against the forum rules) and was banned. BUTTMAN302 then complained stating that this was his friend and he was going to find
out what was going on. Things got really heated between BUTTMAN302 and CASPER and so I stepped in as it is my duty to do so.

I asked for both sides of the story as to what happened. CASPER responded promptly with more posts and PMs than I could possibly read in a day about the conversation that he/she and BUTTMAN302 were having. I asked BUTTMAN302
specifically what his friend bruksn's side of the story was and when he/she finally responded, he/she stated that he/she would get all the information together and give that to me. I waited. The next thing I got from BUTTMAN302 was
a PM saying that he/she and CASPER talked things out and everything was fine now. I perused it no further even though I knew things were NOT OK, but I had done what I could do at the time.

Now, it doesn't take a genius to figure out that when someone isn't forthcoming when you ask them what happened, that they are hiding something.

People got banned. People who were associated with BUTTMAN302 and bruksn here as well as on other sites, got banned to not take any chances at them continuing their illegal activities. BUTTMAN302, in a post, stated that he was
buying IKS private server access and selling it to people.

This has since escalated into them harassing this site as well as our sister sites. Hacking into this site and our sister sites.
These individuals, especially BUTTMAN302 and CBMAC2001, (2 of the users banned), have been relentless in trying to shut PBP down and telling people we are ripping them off.

We used to have open downloads for files before this incident occurred. Because of this, we HAD to lock down our once open forum and only allow access to those who have contributed to the site via paid VIP or post count.

We have NEVER refused to refund any legitimate claim of wanting their money back. BUTTMAN302 and CBMAC2001 NEVER asked us for a refund. And besides, only 1 year's access was paid before they became mods which gave them permanent
access to VIP. Yes, BUTTMAN302 had DONATED money throughout his time with us, but those were DONATIONS. No one forced him to give us money!

I don't know where the claim that Preferred By Pete "owns the internet" came from. We're just here doing exactly what we've been doing for the last 4 years. Nothing has changed except the fact that we've tightened security due to
some bad apples.

For some of the story please follow the following link:
https://preferredbypete.com/forum-a...e-all-members-about-recent-member-banned.html

We've been hacked at least twice and the in the last month, the database was stolen and we're trying to nail down who it is. We've been logging IPs of those who are trying to hack in.

Due to our ties with the RCMP, we know exactly what they are looking for so they can catch the culprit(s). And trust me, this person/these people WILL be caught.

If more information is needed, please feel free to ask. I'll answer what I can.
 

VS Pro User

New member
From this side of the fence, as a long time member, but none poster, I can verify that this has happened as stated by Cobra. I can't verify what happened behind the scenes, but that it happened suddenly, but spread over a period of time from then, and at least one hack, (music video if I remember correctly). Nuff said
 

FTAGOD

New member
First of all, NO ONE has to invest any money here. Posting 25 times or more will gain ANYONE access to the files.

As for what is being said out there on the net, these are very angry and disgruntled individuals who are holding a grudge for things that took place here on PBP. Yes, there may have been some unneccessary banning of some
individuals, however, not all were unjustified. Things started to heat up around here when one of our members complained about another of our members named bruksn. the complaint was about being sold an fta unit on Ebay and then
was told to come to PBP and pay for VIP for access to IKS private server.

#1) PBP does not have/give ANY access to IKS private server.
#2) This does NOT fall under "testing" and is illegal.
#3) Anyone caught doing this or suspected of doing this on our site HAVE BEEN/WILL BE dealt with accordingly.

Upon this coming to our attention, the user bruksn starting insulting CASPER, one of the Admins (which is against the forum rules) and was banned. BUTTMAN302 then complained stating that this was his friend and he was going to find
out what was going on. Things got really heated between BUTTMAN302 and CASPER and so I stepped in as it is my duty to do so.

I asked for both sides of the story as to what happened. CASPER responded promptly with more posts and PMs than I could possibly read in a day about the conversation that he/she and BUTTMAN302 were having. I asked BUTTMAN302
specifically what his friend bruksn's side of the story was and when he/she finally responded, he/she stated that he/she would get all the information together and give that to me. I waited. The next thing I got from BUTTMAN302 was
a PM saying that he/she and CASPER talked things out and everything was fine now. I persued it no further even though I knew things were NOT ok, but I had done what I could do at the time.

Now, it doesn't take a genius to figure out that when someone isn't forthcoming when you ask them what happened, that they are hiding something.

People got banned. People who were associated with BUTTMAN302 and bruksn here as well as on other sites, got banned to not take any chances at them continuing their illegal activities. BUTTMAN302, in a post, stated that he was
buying IKS private server access and selling it to people.

This has since escallated into them harassing this site as well as our sister sites. Hacking into this site and our sister sites.
These individuals, especially BUTTMAN302 and CBMAC2001, (2 of the users banned), have been relentless in trying to shut PBP down and telling people we are ripping them off.

We used to have open downloads for files before this incident occured. Because of this, we HAD to lock down our once open forum and only allow access to those who have contributed to the site via paid VIP or post count.

We have NEVER refused to refund any legitimate claim of wanting their money back. BUTTMAN302 and CBMAC2001 NEVER asked us for a refund. And besides, only 1 year's access was paid before they became mods which gave them permanent
access to VIP. Yes, BUTTMAN302 had DONATED money throughout his time with us, but those were DONATIONS. No one forced him to give us money!

I don't know where the claim that Preferred By Pete "owns the internet" came from. We're just here doing exactly what we've been doing for the last 4 years. Nothing has changed except the fact that we've tightened security due to
some bad apples.

For some of the story please follow the following link:
https://preferredbypete.com/forum-a...e-all-members-about-recent-member-banned.html

We've been hacked at least twice in the last month, the database was stolen and we're trying to nail down who it is. We've been logging IPs of those who are trying to hack in.

Due to our ties with the RCMP, we know exactly what they are looking for so they can catch the culprit(s). And trust me, this person/these people WILL be caught.

If more information is needed, please feel free to ask. I'll answer what I can.

Apparently there are some hurt ex-members that were doing wrong and Benefiting from it going around posting at other site and bad mouthing this site all FTA Download are free only requirement to have 25 legitimate post the only other Download that you need to be a VIP MEMBER is in the Private VIP FORUM and no one is forcing anyone it's Voluntary to Join there if you want valuable items that you need for PC and or Personal use etc..
 

Rumas

Administrator
Staff member
It can take up to 60 minute for the site to update the data base...have patients.

Its updated once per hour.
 
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FTAknight

New member
It can take up to 60 minute for the site to update the data base...have patients.

Its updated once per hour.
Thanks Rumas..

Didn't knew about it.. I thought the process was automatic.. Anyways, thanks for the Info. Appreciate it.
Cheers!
 

askendria

New member
Even this thread is over a year old I did read it over and over again withh posts and trying to picture the whole thing in my mind to understand what was the event that took place for this thread.

In a way I do agree with mods that took the necessary actions and considration first and above all to this site but in a way I see and this is my own opnion some actions were over stated such as the requierd 25 posts for new members before they can download files or they can make donation and become VIP without the need to have those first 25 posts.

I understand the 25 posts was and still a security countermeasures to prevent spammers/scammers or such events like this thread was all about, I see we can lower the required amount of posts to 8 or even 10, I wish it can be just 5 and the reason is to make this site more active and more traffic will benefit this site to get more funds from Google AD's.

For sure this is up to the owner/owners of this site to make this changes and I hope to see this site the busiest site of its kind
 

Rumas

Administrator
Staff member
Members DO NOT need 25 posts to download files, new sign ups can download once they confirm their emails. The 25 posts restriction is ONLY in place to prevent SPAM, once 25 post are reached new members can post links as they are trusted members at this point.

This site is 100% free to any members who sign up.

If you think lowering this SPAM prevention technique will help, we can try it. But its at 25 because new members from China and India were signing up, making 10 short, useless posts unrelated to the threads to get past the SPAM restriction and then posting links to penile implants, Viagra or web sites selling something. So it was raised to 25 to make it harder and deter them, and not to stop people from accessing the files.
 

askendria

New member
Thank you for clearing this up since this thread was never up dated to reflect no need for 25 posts for new members to download files.

And I agree 100% with your post, no need to lower the spam prevention technique or change it, looks so far it did prevent spammers big time. Also now I know what the spammers doing... thanks to your posting, I have learned something new. :)
 
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