Duane continued:From meeting with Galina, I am CONVINCED of this: She has been manipulated. She has played the part of the respectful wife, allowing her domineering husband free reign. She IS NOT involved. She wasn’t on the mortgage notes except for the first one, and when she realized things weren’t as they seemed, she had Casey take her names off all the properties. She doesn’t deserve the beating she has taken. To date, she has been a shadowy figure in the background with Casey planting continuous seeds of doubt over her. The fraud, the lies the manipulation from Casey is all about Casey, not about Galina.
Okay, after meeting with the 2 of them I came back and was relatively silent. Mostly out of respect for Galina.
I got this email from Casey shortly after the meeting…
“Good meeting. Thanks for the dinner and drinks. I hope your friday ends up being productive.
Galina and I want to seriously consider selling the domain. How much are you willing to offer?
The will help us knock off our personal loans, and create a little padding untill we get out finances going and will make Galina feel a lot better about our situation.”
My response?
“I enjoyed putting a name with a face. Sorry I left when I did, I just
> literally ran out of steam. I tried to "sleep" in this morning, I
> only made it to 3:30 San Fran time, that means I will burn out early again today.
>
> As for as the domain, I really haven't put much thought into it. My
> initial reaction is if I do a lump payment it would be less than if I
> pay a monthly payment.
>
> Nothing firm... just thinking off the cuff... 15K, if you wanted it
> all up front, or we could do something like 2K for 12 months... again, just off the
> cuff. Or I could make a bigger payment in less months, something like 3500
> for 5 months. My thinking for you guys standpoint - it would be better for
> yall to spread the payments, have monthly stability coupled with 2
> jobs and you would have really nice cash flow...
>
> I would strip the url bare and rebuild into one of my sites. It
> wouldn't be a blog per se so comments about you and Galina would drift away...
>
> Thoughts??
To which he replied…
“Ok, will run by Galina and get back to you. Thanks for the generous offer.”
I got silence for 3 days and then I emailed him this:
” Casey,
>
>
>
> If you are planning to sell the website to me, I would need
> confirmation by 5pm EST today. I have a shareholders meeting tomorrow
> and would need the approval of the board to make this happen. If I
> don't hear from you by 5pm, I will not proceed.
>
>
>
> I wish you well.”
He came back with:
“Duane,
XXXXXXXXXXXX is offering $2,000/month over 18 months = $36,000.
Like you they just want the domain without the content.
Galina is open to both but prefers a lump sum. She wants me to pay off her credit cards ASAP because it's weighing heavily on her.
Can you accommodate a lump sum of $24K? That is is 80% of her 30K
debt. I'm fairly sure we can get everybody to settle for at least 80% (maybe lower but not sure since the debt is not that old).
Of course we'll also have to pay taxes on the money, but I'll worry about that later.
Please consider. Clearing her debt will be HUGE step toward her trusting me as a provider. I have usage of my cell phone back for certain activities. So you can call me.”
I replied:
“> Casey,
>
> I will have to pass. What I threw out is kind of the max I would be
> willing to do.”
He replied:
“Ok, are you still willing to do $15K lump?
If that's the most you can do, let me run by Galina and I can get back to you before the 5 PM EST deadline.
--
Casey Serin”
Now, I put conditions on the 15K. A non-compete, he called me to discuss. I told him I wasn’t trying to hold him back from making money, and if he had the book deal I would make it to where the non-compete wouldn’t interfere. The non-compete was strictly to keep Casey from doing a foreclosure assistance site. Roughly 20% of our business is helping people in foreclosure, and I didn’t want Casey to sell, then start Casey 2.0.
(And for those that think I was making a play for his domain, we buy an average of 20 per week. If I bought Caseys url, great, if not great. I could care less.)
Silence… so I emailed him this…
Casey,
I never heard back. I am assuming you decided not to move forward. That is okay. I would have appreciated a courtesy email from you though. You will learn one day that little things make a big difference.
Word is your starting another blog. True?
Anyway. just wanted to write one last time to wish you well. “
This is his final email that came to me on the 5th of June…
“You're right... I should have at least sent an email. Don't have a good excuse. Honestly, my wife and I have been talking about our issues late into the night and I completely forgot. I have a lot to improve on in the area of reliability.
As for selling, yes, I decided NOT to move forward.
Thanks for everything!”
So like everyone else… I saw him re-launch. I scratched my head.. but what do you do…
Then I had someone reach out to me… and everything I had thought about Casey just multiplied 10-fold.
Casey, the coward, the manipulator, the child pretending to be a businessman, up and left his wife.
He spent some time with his family… he needed to get away I guess… and he calls Galina to say he is leaving, that she could come pick up the car, but she was not to try and discourage him from leaving… he had to be at the airport in 1hour. ONE HOUR notice to leave your wife.. COWARD.
He fled the country.. he is in AUSTRALIA....
My comments on Australia later after you adsorb all this. At least the family is safe.
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@ Duane
Well, I was thinking more about LMP than you when I said that, and obviously I can't speak for what you were thinking when you first met them. I can only speak as to my impression of you. My impression of you is that you're the type of person who wants to see the good in others. I applaud that. My point was that both you and LMP had personal contact with Casey and misjudged him, so it's possible you've misjudged Galina as well. That's all I'm saying.
My main problem with what we've seen of Galina is that she appears to believe that there is "his debt" and "her debt". She hasn't shown any recognition that "his debt" became "their debt" when it paid "her rent."
I don't believe even KC is stupid enough to take it on the lam because of subpoena or indictment. As others have said they have extradition, he would need to find a boat and keep moving from there. He is probably hiding in the basement of his mother's house.
flailingforward: Nice Swann job there.
Random thought: has Turdflake sent Yulia a refund request for the balance of his prepaid rent? I wouldn't put it past him.
My guess is Snowflake is gay, or bi. Why?
- He lived near SF (biggest gay community in world)
Oh, come on, that's a stretch. He lives (oops, lived) in Sacramento because that's where his family settled.
Seven million people live in the Bay Area. We're not all gay.
Not that there's anything wrong with that, and not that Snowflakes' metrosexual appearance doesn't encourage speculation, but still: "he lives in Sacramento ergo he's gay" is reading an awful lot into nothing at all.
I'd say Galina is a ways from being "available". Leave her alone, guys.
You really have to know we don't want to marry this "innocent" chick, we just want to bone Galina! Gosh!
Don't send her money, her family will take care of her. Sometimes people have too much "dumb" sympathy for scammers!!
I still want to bone Galina!
Also in the "possibly reading too much into it": has he really "left" Galina in an "end of the marriage" sense?
Or does he see this jaunt to Australia as just another "got to get away to nature, clear my head, brainstorm" vacation from his responsibilities? One from which he again intends to return from as if he did nothing wrong?
Duane's comments make this sound awfully final. Is it? Or do we need to wait for more information?
I still want to bone Galina!
Yeah, yeah. Camp Idiot is that-a-way. Thanks.
You know this son of a biotch had the money socked away? 170k in credit card bills, more money from the cashback deals? That's 300k or so that's unaccounted for..and if you look at the properties, I'm with the guy in the post above - none were fixed up like they should have been!!
He took the money and ran..he knew exactly what he was doing!!
If he ever makes it back to the country, it should be fair game to whip his azz good!
Rat bastard should have his nuts cut off!! And I should bone Galina too!
OneOfTheLurkerz said...
"(9) shows arrogant, haughty behaviors or attitudes
Wow, 1-8 describe Casey perfectly. Not sure about 9."
Yes it does - listen carefully to his treatment of callers on the next to last(?) fraudcast.
Also in the "possibly reading too much into it": has he really "left" Galina in an "end of the marriage" sense?
Or does he see this jaunt to Australia as just another "got to get away to nature, clear my head, brainstorm" vacation from his responsibilities? One from which he again intends to return from as if he did nothing wrong?
Depends on how this plays out. If he needs Galina at some point in the future, then he'll apologize and be on her doorstep begging to be allowed back in. If he hits it big (unlikely), then he'll leave her out in the cold as much as possible.
Regardless, best thing for her is to take the opportunity of his departure to initiate the divorce process as soon as possible. In addition, she should resolve not to let him back into her life under any and all circumstances. But there's no doubt in my mind that Casey only sees returning to Galina as a fallback option if/when he other schemes fail.
I want to bone Galina first! You can be murst.
It is alot easier to leave the country than to get back in.
That's bullshit thinking galina isn't responsible. If Casey managed to make a million she would be right there lapping it up.
She wants the rewards but doesn't want the risk? Typical american bitch.
@Anonymous 11:46 AM:
Being American has no more to do with Galina's behavior than her hair color. Don't be a bigot.
And, per Twinky's latest post on IAFF, he does indeed claim to have a dupe in OZ; Someone who's willing to let him mooch and sponge. Lovely.
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