minerskinz closed

[lostincable]

Dissapointing to here this as I just purchased a skin a couple of months ago with a year of upgrades and i didn't recieve any communication about this.

@Miner given we are so close to 1.2 have you considered updating your skins to 1.2 for your customers or is this it for now?

 

[optrex]

Dissapointing to here this as I just purchased a skin a couple of months ago with a year of upgrades and i didn't recieve any communication about this.

@Miner given we are so close to 1.2 have you considered updating your skins to 1.2 for your customers or is this it for now?

He cant if his coder has left, I think that is the problem here. He was stuck and unable to make fixes, leaving miner to pick up the pieces. I bought a skin that was unusable.

 

[lostincable]

He cant if his coder has left, I think that is the problem here. He was stuck and unable to make fixes, leaving miner to pick up the pieces. I bought a skin that was unusable.

Understand his coder has left but he may have been able to negoiate a final update.

We have paid for a product and not recieved what we paid for.

Don't want to sound harsh but given how close 1.2 is and dropping everything right now is pretty bad.

 

[MattW]

Understand his coder has left but he may have been able to negoiate a final update.

We have paid for a product and not recieved what we paid for.

Don't want to sound harsh but given how close 1.2 is and dropping everything right now is pretty bad.

Open a request through PayPal for a refund. I pushed for a refund from Miner for the Metro theme and got one.

 

[lostincable]

Open a request through PayPal for a refund. I pushed for a refund from Miner for the Metro theme and got one.

Nah don't want a refund miner is obviously struggling as it is and I am happy overall with what i paid but more dissapointed in the timing and handling of it all given 1.2 is so close.

Ill have to find some one to either update gamingo to 1.2 or go with something else.....

 

[zappaDPJ]

Sorry to hear about your problems Miner. You have a great talent, I'm sure you'll be back in business soon

 

[patrick91]

Miner is wish you all the best, hope you will be back in buissines soon!

 

[jmurrayhead]

Best of luck to you, @Miner . My first ever skin was a Miner skin back on vBulletin 3.6.

 

[Cupara]

@Miner Check your inbox.

 

[rexxxy]

My first skin was from miner and I always used his christmas skin sorry to hear that miner.

and thanks for all your hard work I appreciated it

 

[nlmquan]

First i am sorry for my late reply regarding closing of Minerskinz.com, i am in such depressed mind past few days, as i never had or thought of closing my site in my life as i love forums so much and designing themes is my passion then business.

Many senior members/forum owners knew me well from way back in 2003, i started my designing as hobby and offered free graphic service like creating rank images etc at TAZ, yes taz is the school where i learned all about forums and still you can find my old posts there...

Money is not always a motive for me from 2005 to 2009 i provided about 50+ themes for vB3.x and i was maintaining all my free themes with each updates until 2009, the total number of downloads of my free themes exceeds 30k which i provided at various admin forums, vB.org and at my site, check at vB.org still i have the record of providing highest themes then any forum designer, if i would have charged $10 a pop i would have earned millions.

Bingo theme was my hottest free theme which comes in 9 colors and downloaded more then 8500 times, still my free themes are wildly used by 1000's of vb forums, search 'designed by Minerskinz.com" you will find so many forums using my free themes even today.

I have given to the forum community more then what i earned!

I am graphic designer by trade and my coding skills are negligible, i was able to code theme for vb3 as it uses tables and comfortable with my skills but vB4, Xenforo use very latest standards which is out of my knowledge.

So i had to always depend on another person who is expert in coding themes and he loosed interest due to low revenue with forum themes, as he was saying he could easily earn more then 10x times then what he gets now if he works on other scripts like wp, e comm etc and left me, i am not blaming him as its 100% true he is highly skilled coder plus he knows PHP well and code custom CMS etc.

So closing Minerskinz is the toughest decision i had to make in my life and i did not do this just like that, i never thought i would get so many messages from many well-wishers and also got few offers from other designers to help me continue my service (so looking into options).

My current plan is to learn HTML & CSS by joining a reputed institute and then come back try coding my themes & try resume my forum business, so i can run the show myself and not depend on others anymore...

Once i learn coding and even if i am unable to continue my forum business in future, i will sure come back and provide few free themes for Xenforo, due to my love for forums and lately Xenforo users have given me their warmth which i will never forget.

Good bye for now, Thanks.

3 days before you closed Minerskinz, I bought Metro Theme.

Now who will help me to upgrade it to 1.2?

 

[Shelley]

3 days before you closed Minerskinz, I bought Metro Theme.

Now who will help me to upgrade it to 1.2?

You'll either have to attempt the upgrade yourself, request someone to help you or consider switching to a new theme that is supported. Offhand they are the options available to you.

 

[Deepmartini]

If he gets refunds, then chargeback requests and extra fees added on top of that by paypal and the credit card companies, he'll never come back. So probably is best for everyone to just wait it out. I'm sure he'll make good on things eventually.

 

[lostincable]

Have a read -

http://minerskinz.com/

On a side note I am running Gamingo on 1.2, responsive doesn't work and three templates are outdated but it works until i can sort other thing out.....

It may pay to set up a duplicate of your site and test out the 1.2 upgrade.