Craddock abandons BTG180 legal action
Just twenty-four hours after announcing BTG180 had been “classified as a Ponzi scheme“, Robert Craddock is now abandoning his plans to launch legal action against the company.
Craddock’s short but colourful campaign saw him urge BTG180 affiliates to contact a journalist and file scripted complaints with local authorities.
BTG180 were quick to respond, threatening to file their own legal action against Craddock. BTG accused Craddock of failing to perform the duties the company paid him for and using “disparaging tactics”.
Yesterday Craddock (right) responded by escalating the standoff. In a communication Craddock referred to as a “formal cease and desist”, he claimed “reports” had been filed with the North Carolina AG, that a 30-60 day investigation had begun.
Between yesterday and today it then surfaced that Craddock was asking his followers for a $25 “legal fees donation”.
Only registrations that include valid payment information, allowing us to pay the legal fees will be included. If you do not intend on providing that information please do not continue.
Within hours of this being made public, Craddock then pulled the BTGLegal site down and issued the following statement:
Due to the lack of participation of the people wanting to proceed forward with a motion against BTG180 and Bids that Gives. We will be returning all funds received and not proceeding forward.
We will be pulling down the site as there is no reason to continue at this point.
If anyone wishes to continue we would recommend contacting your State Attorney General office and requesting their assistance.
Please forward to your team members.
And with that, so ends the latest chapter of Craddock’s crazy MLM adventures.
How many people Craddock did manage to convince to send him $25, whether or not anything was actually filed with the North Carolina AG and whether or not BTGLegal’s closure was indeed the result of low interest and not because of legal action taken by BTG180, all remain unclear.
I suppose those who did send Craddock $25 this time around are thankful he’s at least offering them refunds. Those who sent their money to ZTeamBiz were not so fortunate.
What a bummer.
I was so looking forward to seeing a court case featuring “scammer vs scammer”
Doesn’t pass the sniff test. He didn’t have the donation page up for more than a few days, not enough time to see how much of the flock could be fleeced.
No, that isn’t the reason he took the site down. My guess would be that taking the site down would save more personal legal fees he would be certain to face than he could potentially raise if he kept the site up.
But all is not lost, he might have better luck ginning up more support for an effort against OfferHubb:
leadhubb.com/offerhubbtookmymoney
I wasn’t aware of his efforts against OfferHubb (someone asked me whether he’d left a few months ago but I wasn’t sure).
Craddock is truly the gift that keeps on giving. I can’t help but wonder if he had any MLM exposure before Zeek Rewards?
Since when does Craddock return money??
His LinkedIn Profile at one time listed FHTM (that’s when I Google him after he filed that bogus takedown notice), but that could be him playing bait to Joe Isaacs… or maybe not.
I happened across leadhubb dot com a few hours ago using one of Robert’s email addys as a search term. The site looks like it was set up to help monetize his mailing lists and when I saw the “offerhubb took my money” link I knew I had to share.
Craddock’s pre-Zeek MLM experience? Fortune High Tech Marketing, which much like Zeek is being liquidated by a court appointed receivership.
Robert sure knows how to pick ’em.
Most people know when they find themselves in a hole to stop digging, but not Craddock. He brings in a backhoe to keep on digging.
How anyone still believes anything he has to say defies logic and common sense. He should have zero credibility now, but sadly there will be people who will still believe him.
I think he is a pathological liar and a sociopath.
Cognitive bias, Lynndel. 🙂 Too close to the tree to see the forest, for instance. Or denial. Or just enjoys general manipulation of other people, maybe. But do we really need to sink our minds to his level to psychoanalyze him? 😉