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Complaint Review: Mike Mihaylov - Des Plaines Illinois
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Mike Mihaylov
1400 East Touhy Ave Suite 255 Des Plaines, 60018 Illinois, USA
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847-347-9747
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www.montway.com
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Mike Mihaylov CEO - Montway Auto Transport Hires and Doesn't Pay Contractors for Work Des Plaines Illinois
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Mike Mihaylov and Montway Auto Transport Ripped Me Off For $16,200
Mike Mihaylov, the CEO of Montway Auto Transport, engaged me to help him with overhauling the Montway website to rank in Google organic search for high value terms again since Mike or a previous Montway employee had done shady things in the past and got penalized by Google for them.
Mike Mihaylov's Horrible Employee Treatment and Deceit
Our agreement was for a flat monthly contracted rate to be split evenly and paid twice monthly by direct deposit from Montway to my account. I am not attaching specific numbers, strategy discussions, or other documents to ensure adherence to an NDA. If Mike and Montway release me from the NDA, I will be happy to share more specifics highlighting the company's egregious and deceptive behavior. After 3 weeks of work, I inquired about expected payment date and was told to submit an invoice, and obvious tactic by Mike Mihaylov to delay payment and continue to receive service. I complied and submitted an invoice for the services that I had provided to date. The next morning, I attempted to log into the various systems that Mike Mihaylov had given me access to for Montway and found I had been stripped of access to all of them.
I emailed Mike Mihaylov directly to ask about the access issue and received no response. I messaged Mike Mihaylov over the following weeks to inquire into the status of the invoice multiple times and never once did he respond. I did not receive notice that the agreement Mike Mihaylov and I had place had terminated so I continued to provide the service that I had promised, but not the results back to Mike Mihaylov.
I have now informed Mike Mihaylov that I have discontinued work on the Montway Auto Transport site project and submitted the second invoice but have still never received a response from either Mike Mihaylov or any representative of Montway Auto Transport.
At this point, I am being forced to employ legal measures to recoup the thousands of dollars that Mike and Montway have agreed to pay but never lived up to.
If you are considering Mike Mihaylov or Montway Auto Transport as either a contract or full-time employer do so at your own risk!! There are many other reviews highlighting Mike Mihaylov's treatment of employees, including his horrible and unchecked temper and his policy of docking employee pay for mistakes, all over the internet. Look up Montway Auto Transport on sites like Glassdoor.com to see some of the reviews before you let what happened to me happen to you!!
Please do me and other potential victims a favor and tweet this out, message Montway on Facebook, post it in response to Montway's job listings or use the information anywhere you can think of on the web to help prevent companies like this from taking advantage of others!
1 Updates & Rebuttals
Desislav Kuzmanov
Sofia,Other,
Answer to Dylan Hamilton
#2UPDATE Employee ..inside information
Tue, February 10, 2015
As a Digital Marketing and SEO Service Specialist with New Rank, Ltd, I am writing in protest of the anonymous complaint posted on ripoffreport.com and pissedconsumer.com.
My company and I, Desislav Kuzmanov, have contracted with Mike Mihaylov and Montway Auto Transport for over three months. Montway has fulfilled all obligations and paid for all services on time.
The reason I am writing my review is that I do not agree with the comments of the anonymous user here and below I will disclose who that person is. Furthermore I would ask, why the user claiming those things did not reveal his identity?
Sounds fishy, isn't it..?
When New Rank Ltd. began working on the Montway website in November 2014, our first task was to address a number of SEO errors, issues, and penalties tied to the site. The majority were addressed and removed within one month. Our second task was to address a recent rash of malicious back links and aggressive spamming leading to Montway's Web site.
It was quickly evident that Montway had been the target of "black hat" or "negative SEO," the use of linking and keyword spamming to deliberately damage a company’s search engine ranking. Upon investigation, we discovered that many of the malicious connections could be tracked to sites managed or owned by one SEO consultant, Dylan Hamilton.
According to the company, Dylan Hamilton had previously been contacted to perform SEO services on the company website, but from our analysis we couldn't identify any recent SEO optimization etc.
I do not know the details of Hamilton's agreement with Montway and Mihaylov, however, as a SEO specialist myself, if services were provided, this work should have been evident. When New Rank Ltd. first examined the site in Nov 2014, we found blatant errors that any SEO specialist would have addressed. Furthermore, we have had to address the problems and harm intentionally caused to the site by the negative SEO actions that can be directly connected to Dylan Hamilton.
It is my professional observation that no optimization work was implemented before my company was engaged to work on the Montway Web site. As no work is evident, this reviewer's claims are not only false, but libelous. The untrue claims in this review, and the malicious actions taken by Dylan Hamilton, both display a complete lack of credibility and integrity. Targeting Montway with negative SEO is at best extremely poor business practices. At worst, these actions are fraudulent and potentially criminal.
The bottom line is that we have been working with Mike Mihaylov and Montway for over three months without issue, so why would this other person have been denied payment?
Desislav Kuzmanov
plus.google.com/+desislavkuzmanov/
NewRank Ltd.
