[orionblastar]

This looks like a father and son operation in Chicago.

You got many Mom and Pop operations like that who have technical skills but don't have a lick of business sense or business experience. It is ironically the main reason why so many Dotcom startups and Dotcom companies fail.

I figure they were in a hurry to add that link and so they rushed the job and botched the link back to their web site. Then maybe they were locked out of editing the web site because someone changed the password to the account they were using. I figure someone will erase their notice and nobody will know the difference. The only evidence will be this HN thread about it.

But seriously they need a lawyer to review their contract and find a way to collect on the money. Unless the client is filing bankruptcy (there is a cycle to it where a debtor can collect and cannot collect in the process of a bankruptcy but it is so complex only a lawyer can figure it out). Writing about it in public may even violate the contract in the first place if not some laws as well.