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The Mysterious Disappearance of Callwriter.com (Part 1)

Once upon a time, a man named John Brasher ran a service named Callwriter.com. As occasionally happens in the financial industry, the service was here one day and literally gone the next. I intercepted a forum thread back in March 2013 and today I begin presentation of select posts from that thread.


> Does anyone know what happened to Johnny Brasher and
> his site Callwriter.com? It disappeared a while ago now
> very quickly and all trace of him seems to have
> disappeared as well – what happened?


> It seems he had his house up for sale and there was a
> contact number (his wife I believe) for the ad. It was
> abrupt and I believe he left some people with more than
> month-long subscriptions high and dry.


> He left me high and dry. I had about six months left on
> the subscription.  Don’t know what happened.  It worked
> one day and the next the plug was pulled.
>
> Too bad, it was a really good service


> We spoke with someone close to John a couple of weeks
> after the site went down. We were told he didn’t have
> the money to keep the site up and his ISP pulled the
> plug after he was behind on paying them. We were told
> his health is fine, and we believe the decision to
> abandon the site was a business decision.
>
> In early 2012 we tried reaching John through several
> channels for a couple of months but he never
> responded. As his competitor, we’ve fielded dozens
> of calls from his former subscribers, none of whom
> were able to reach him. To our knowledge, no one got
> refunds on the unused portion of their subscriptions.
>
> [company name withheld]

This company, of course, stands to gain new
subscribers from Callwriter’s disappearance.

I will continue with this thread in the next post.