...something bad must have happend to him...
Yeah. Greed.
No, something has not happened to him. Several people have left messages and emails. Sometimes his answering machine is full and you get a message saying such. Then a week or two later the answering machine is empty. Someone is taking the messages and not returning the calls. On my last few messages I implored the person taking the messages please call back and let me know why John is not returning calls. Yet, still no replies.
Yes, like Wat, we have left dozens of messages to no avail :'(. For a long time, I too thought something must have happened. At one time, we were friends. I just could not believe we, and the whole community, had been duped. Sadly, it appears that that is exactly how it is. He took off and ripped us all off :'(.
To his credit at one point he did give me a $250 deposit out of the blue to hold until he shipped out the packages (presumably to cover the CF as I was pissed at the time I wasn't getting anything out of him despite all the things he produced), BUT the packages never came and after nearly a month paypal suddenly reversed the charge because he was claiming I never provided him with what he purchased >:( >:( So I guess that's not really to his credit.
Geez Gil, I wish you had let someone know about that at the time :(. John has literally thousands and thousands of forum members' funds. Maybe if some of us had compared notes at the time, we could have saved others some grief :'(.