Chris Fantich brother of Fantich Media Group owner Marc Fantich was indicted on March 17, 2010 at 4:20 pm in what seems like a hairy plot in what has two defendants Chris Fantich of Fantich Media Group and Chance Lee Jenkins being charged with conspiracy to commit aggravated assault which is a 2nd degree felony in the State of Texas which carries a penalty of 2-20 years prison term or a $10,000 fine..

Now why would Chris Fantich or Chance Jenkins want to cause me bodily harm? If you your just now tuning in you let me tell you. Marc Fantich owner of Fantich Media Group and RGV Magazine,  the brother of Chris Fantich owed Chakery Design $1000-$1500. Marc Fantich didn’t want to pay the final balance. So I decided to post online about how Marc Fantich breached his web agreement, which upsets Marc Fantich very dearly. He even threatened to send someone to my door to cause me bodily harm.. Luckily for Marc Fantich his brother Chris Fantich will take the fall for thoughtless endeavor. One would ask how did Chris Fantich get involved in this matter since the dispute was between Fantich Media Group and Chakery Design.  I have to ask what would you have rather spent $1,000 or time in prison of a family member.. plus court cost and attorney fees..

I came across this video clip of Chris Fantich featured in a Rainbow Play Systems TV Commercial.. I have included the clip for your viewing pleasure. I particularly would not want this guy showing up to play with my children..

Click Here To See Commercial:  Rainbow Playsystems RGV “Kicking Can” TV Spot

Click Here To See Indictment: Fantich Indictment Document

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Chris Fantich of Fantich Media Group indicted for conspiracy to commit aggravated assault…

I guess I would have liked a little better communication and a good way out of the agreement since the service does not work inside of my house or around it. I am committed to bringing this news to as many people as I can about how bad the service is for the iphone in my area as much as they are committed in making sure that they take care of me as a customer and not just activating my line of service and making sure that they have me locked in for the 2 year agreement. If your having problems and need support these are numbers to the higher ups that may be able to help you. It’s better than talking to the customer care reps that hang up with you after you ask  to speak to their supervisor right?

AT&T Mobility Office Of The President: 1-877-707-6220
Paula Burke, Executive Care: 952-703-2640
Mic Murphy, Executive Care Manager: 952-703-2310
Reyna Selena, Executive Care: 952-703-2369

I remember when AT&T would ” Reach Out And Touch Someone” now they don’t even return your calls…

I hope there is a better future for the customers of AT&T who have the iPhone and have been forced to use a sub par service because they have no way out of the big GIANT phone companies legal arm..

Have a Creative Day,

Malcom Chakery

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The iPhone and AT&T’s superfast 3g network..

So the auto industry promotes a $4500 “Car Allowance Rebate System” which is the foundation and formation of “Cash For Clunkers” up to $4500 for your clunker http://www.cars.gov

Now not to be mean or anything.. But there is a reason why people drive clunkers. They drive them because they can’t afford to make payments on newer model vehicles. Didn’t we learn from the home mortgage loans that could not be paid back so many homes where foreclosed on?

Here is what I see happening in the very near future.. All of the people who cashed in on the cash for clunker proposition that Mr. Obama our dearly beloved president whom most of you adore will soon be having those vehicles repossed because they can not afford to make the payments on the vehicle that they traded their clunker in for. Yes, $4500 is allot of money but once that car payment falls behind say 60-90 days those people who cashed in will soon wish that they still had their beloved clunker still parked in their yard.

Now is the time for the repo man to make a ton of money. Now will be the time for the creditors to start calling the people that could not keep up on that clunking payment. I personally think that the government could see that this plan clucks and should have never approved the spending for such a clikky bill. Let me know your thoughts.

Malcom Chakery

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We have been clunked!! Cash For Clunkers

With all of that said and if you are just hearing about what has happened you can fully catch up on this story on my blog here or on a website that we purchased http://www.fantichmediagroup.com

Also see the video on you tube.. Fantich Media

Also we have a new domain name called http://www.fantich.com and that site will be live soon with full details about the scenario that Marc Fantich has put him self in by simply not keeping to his part of the deal that he made with us.

More to come soon…

Malcom

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Fantich Media Group

Marc Fantich, Fantich Media Group

Marc Fantich from the Fantich Media Group breached his web agreement with our website design company. So instead of hiring an attorney or passing it over to collections I chose to simply talk about it on my blog, facebook, twitter, and youtube.

I sent out a blast email to some of Marc Fantich’s closest friends so of course it made me look like the bad guy. But who wouldn’t side with their personal friend Marc Fantich in McAllen? Marc did a great job though of sending me the feedback from his friends, threatened to have someone come choke me, and even brought my children into the matter whom are only 3 and 2 years old.. which I have the emails again to back up.

I have been accused of handling this unprofessionally and can understand your points.. some people agree with how I am handling it seeing how you can go to www.fantichmedia.com and see that he is using the website design that Chakery Design provided him. He agreed to a cost.. and if I was late on finishing the project I offered a $250 discount for the lateness on my behalf. He seems to like the site and is using it.

At any rate here are some of the responses from some of Marc Fantich’s closest friends in the McAllen, TX area who seem to agree with Marc’s position that stealing files and using them without paying for them is simply ok.

This email is from Marc Fantich to me.
“Yikes! No you didn’t? Did you…. Did you…… Holy God. You thought I was ruthless? Better hide Bitch. Manasse gonna rip you to threads!”

This email is from Chris Vonwald who seems to work for The Monitor in McAllen. I hope he doesn’t kiss his mother with that mouth..
—–Original Message—–
From: Chris Von Wald [mailto:cvonwald@themonitor.com]
Sent: Friday, July 24, 2009 4:14 PM
To: mfantich@aol.com
Subject:

Marc,

Just got a crazy e-mail from some idiot about your company. Tell him hes an ass for putting that out.

-Chris

This short message from Pete Salas from Entravision
well this guy just made an enemy for life…..

Note to Pete: When you have friends like Marc Fantich… Who needs an Enemy..

This next email is from James Judkins and he gave his assement of the situation but again a friend of the Fantich Media Group.
” I hesitate to do anything but delete this message, but….

Typically in a situation like this, both people are at least 75% wrong.
And, the first person to start talking, usually tells the biggest lies.

If I was in the market for new web designers, and in fact I am, after receiving this from Mr. Chakery — and see that he has disclosed to the public personal and private emails — then I would hesitate to do business with that company.

Note To James: James.. when I sent out this message I wasn’t trying to earn any of Marc Fantich’s friends website design business. If you are in the market for a website please by all means contact Marc Fantich he will farm it out to someone like me but just not as good. It might look good it just won’t bring in any traffic. Good luck with that sir.

This email comes from Connie Bearden out of La Feria, TX to Marc
“Well!  That put an interesting end to a very long week!

Does the man realize what he just did?!  Blast email?  That is so RGV!!!  lol… This is a war that he will NEVER qualify to participate in — let alone win!  Looks to me like his business just got a better/faster rating (to the negative side) than if dealing with BBB or D/B!

Take a breath… enjoy your weekend… he will be trying to recoup from this stupidity for a while~with little or no success!”

Connie

Note To Connie: Connie, I enjoyed your message as I am sure Marc did as well. I took a very deep breath, enjoyed my weekend and worked a little because that’s just what I do.

This next email came from Patti Sunday and it was a direct reply to everyone. Marc fabricated this one a little or I will never know. he told me that Patti Sunday claims to pick up the clients that I have lost. But I don’t see any record of that nor would it bother me as clients do change providers from time to time. Marc would know that first hand. But here goes Patti Sunday’s Message.

I see a lot of pain here. I do not even want to read it. Look, times are challenging. We are in a recession. McAllen folks are really talented- and in many different ways. We need to help each other..lift each other up. Turn the other cheek and I guess find a constructive outlet for our frustrations.. or just be able to say

I suck.. I need a time out..

Just the physics of the wasted energy and creativity in whatever is going on here…

Maybe this is your type of therapy to vent…

Looks like a potential power struggle to me-

can we do a take #2 on this whole thing

or just crash this file …??Patti

Note To Patti: You hit the nail on the head! This is my way to vent. That is all I am doing here. I have tweeted about, facebooked about, youtubed, and will continue to blog about it. Could I take down the files? Of course! Will I? Ask yourself this question. Would Marc?

Well as I bring this post to a close here are some of my latest games for the weekend…. Do this… Go to www.google.com and do a search for “Fantich Media Group” on page 2 or 3 you will see a cool youtube video explaining in person what this is all about. You can also view the video by clicking here. It is all about Fantich Media Breaches Web Agreement.

Oh by the way I am selling a domain if your interested please let me know. The price is negotiable.
Fantich Media Group Domain Name For Sale: http://www.fantichmediagroup.com

Yes I own that domain name and I am selling it. If your interested in it please contact me at chakery@gmail.com

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Fantich Media Group Update

Marc Fantich even went on to send me feedback from his son that he appointed as the project manager for this project. In an email dated 3/5/09 at 1:49pm.

“Just heard from ERIC….. here’s what he said…. (Hope you understand 24 year olds)

expletitive beaaaauuutiful! “

So we are off to a good start and building out the website that we were contracted to design. The client wanted the site ready by April 1, 2009. We worked with the client and we fell behind a little on the project at some points but offered a discount to the client for this delay on our behalf. But… I must say that our web agreement clearly states that we do not begin a project till we have the content to build the website. Anyone can understand that right? In this case we were still recieving content on 3/31/09.

Needless to say the website went live on 4/1/09. You can see the website here .  On 4/29/01 I sent the client the final invoice. Here are his responses below.

“Cash is a little tight… I’ll do my best … There is no discount for being 200% late? Or is that just the way it goes?”

Marc Fantich, Fantich Media Group

Special Note: Chakery Design gave Fantich Media Group a $250 discount for lateness…

More emails from Marc Fantich of Fantich Media Group Below.

Date 5/12/09 in an email to me cc’d to Marsha who is Marc Fantich’s mom in accounting see below.

Business is real slow and I need a week or so…. Marc

Marsha, This $1000 is for the web site we ordered for our company a few months back. We need to pay him as soon as we can. Marc

Date 5/27/09 in an email to me from Marc Fantich of Fantich Media Group

Cash is really tight…

Things are really slow right now and I have a guy doing a redo on the (3 month site) site.

I’ll pay you, but it will be delayed.

Date 6/1/09 in an email to me From Marc Fantich of Fantich Media Group

you are making it hard to sign this $500 check. It’s been on my desk since Wed.

Ok… Marc Fantich actually owes me $1000.00 but refuses to pay it. He has since used the site till yesterday when I asked him to remove the site and take it down. He tried to intimidate me by telling me that he was in a meeting with 3 lawyers, a judge, a candidate, and a guy with 40 million dollars. Working on an election. He said they took a short break to tell them that i planned to blog about this and he said that they were laughing at me. He told me to look up defamation of charictor… yes he spelled character incorrectly.

I was warned about Marc Fantich before i started doing business with him. I was told clearly to make sure that I got paid upfront. But I trusted him. Silly me…

Irony has a funny way of playing itself out though. Marc wanted me to offer a very close friend/business partners a great deal on a website design project.

He sent this email below…. Dated 2/18/09 Subject New Client and he CC’d his friend Ryan Murphy.

Malcom… “Undisclosed Name” is my business partner in this business here

He needs a website… Please contact him and extend him all courtesies that you’d extend to me.

His email is above.

I think his project in much more complicated than mine.

How’s mine coming? Marc

In the very next email sent to me from Marc Fantich of Fantich Media Group he instructs me to make sure that I get paid in full upfront his message below.

From Marc Fantich To Me

“For your eyes only… CASH UP FRONT!”

In summary to my blog which are all facts and I have all of the emails backed up and saved to disk for proof I would pose the question why would anyone do business with a person who is willing to treat friends/business partners, clients, or vendors in this manner. I am simply a website design company based out of the Dallas, TX but started in the McAllen area. Thankfully I don’t have to deal with clients like Marc Fantich Media Group on a regular basis. If you have any questions or would like to share your stories about this company good or bad I would love to hear them.

Your Friend,

Malcom Chakery

Founder and President of Chakery Design, Malcom Chakery has extensive knowledge and experience in the workings of a web based business operation. Possessing great amounts of expertise in regard to marketing, web design and development, Malcom is extremely comfortable handling all details regarding the day-to-day operations as well as the sales and support of his many high profile clients. With a clear plan in place regarding operational procedures, all aspects of web design, marketing and promotional activities are managed and overseen by Malcom before they are completed. As a stickler for detail, Malcom believes in providing greater than expected support, superior customer service, and innovative programs, making sure to go above and beyond customer expectations.

Previous to his experience as President of Chakery Design, Malcom was employed as an Account Executive for several Fortune 500 companies including Blue Cross Blue Shield of RI, Nordstrom Department Store, Sprint PCS Business/Government and IKON Office Solutions Business and Government. With an eye on the future, it was clear to Malcom that his expertise could be more fully utilized by developing his own web-based company, which he has successfully achieved. Initially, Malcom started out almost exclusively as a print-media and website development agency. Today, his thriving company has grown to include everything from database development, e-commerce, web marketing, sales promotion, market research, public relations, new media and corporate identity. As the Internet continues to grow, Malcom’s role as a web related consultant continues to grow and expand as well.

Malcom attended Johnson & Wales University where he served as Freshman Class Senator. He also acted as DECA Chapter President. Malcom operates his business with his wife Lisa. They reside in Dallas, TX

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Fantich Media Breaches Agreement

When a new visitor lands on a website, of course initially they are interested in a unique, attractive site.  They may marvel at the intricacies of the site since most people tend to like pretty things.  But when it comes to the value of the website, the majority of visitors are more interested in what the site has to say and what it has to offer.  And although many designers know that flash is out of date, they still insist upon putting it on a site.  Flash and fancy graphics are simply annoying to the visitor and do nothing to hold a viewer at the site.  Simply stated, fancy graphics detract from a site’s appeal and just drives traffic away.

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Fancy.. Flashy.. Uh – Oh

They spoke with Rich, a current Office Depot associate, who said it happens all the time at his store:
Rich said that he was always honest with customers but had been instructed to lie about notebook stock both by one of his four store managers and by a district manager.

“I have witnessed lying about the availability of a notebook, and have been told to do so myself,” Rich told us. “Once I was talking to the customer and, while I am actually speaking, my manager comes on the radio and tells me to say it is out of stock if they aren’t getting anything with it.

The company also determines commission based on overall store performance, not individual sales, providing further pressure to game the system as necessary. “One [Product Protection Plan, or PPP] could make or break how the entire store gets paid for commission that week,” says Rich.
According to Rich, the district manager once visited his store and told all the associates to lie.

“We did get told by the district manager one time to talk to the customer, figure out what they want, do your normal sales routine, and figure out what they’re going to get,” he said. “Offer them the PPP. Offer them the TDS and then, if they’re going to get it, go check to see if we have it in stock and, if we do, bring it out to them. If they’re not going to get anything with it, just go check to see if we have it and then come back and say ‘oh, we’re out of stock on it.’”

LAPTOP makes a few suggestions on how you should go about buying a laptop from Office Depot now that you know about the inventory trick, but we think the best approach is a combination of two of them: first use the in-store kiosk to determine for yourself whether or not the laptop you want is in stock, then lie to the associate and say you want a PPP, and change your mind once the laptop is where you can see it. Or just buy your laptop somewhere else.

Read the full article, which has lots more dirt on Office Depot sales practices, along with a “we take this very seriously” non-comment from Office Depot, at LAPTOP magazine.

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Office Depot Employees Claim They’re Told To Lie About Stock If You’re Not Buying Extras