PSA: do not accept "training" from Kutataxoa/SongSong/HeartShaker

Just wanted to share this story.

In late December I was randomly messaged over voobly by the Vietnamese 2k2 player [sT]Heartshaker, who also goes by SongSong or Kutataxoa. Very good player.

He offered to help me improve by giving me continual feedback on games and showing what I was doing wrong, in return for a payment. He rejected my proposals for game-by-game compensation and instead insisted on $100 for a straight month of a large amount of training.

Okay, now right here you might be thinking "Why would you ever agree to that, that's way overcharging....you're an idiot." I know that. I was thinking something similar at the time while we were discussing it. But the truth is, I was okay with losing $100-- I can afford that, I'm doing okay financially. To me, it was worth the potential loss of $100 for the chance that it would be worth it and he would really help me learn to play better. If he really did help me a lot, I would consider $100 a fair price.

Unfortunately, here's what resulted: he spent 15 minutes helping me practice a certain build order, gave me some feedback on about 2 or 3 games over a few days, then vanished. He's barely been online in the past month. When I messaged him to ask about a game, I got no response for 4 or 5 days, and when I messaged him again he said "Sry bro, I busy some day, I go work" [sic]. Seven days later, I messaged him again to ask if I was going to hear from him at all this month, and he said "am back now" but never answered about the game I had asked about, nor have I heard from him since then, more than two weeks ago.

I could keep messaging him, but frankly I paid him up front and I shouldn't have to chase him for help. It's clear I'm not going to get much. There's 5 days left in our month-long agreement, but I already consider him to have defaulted on this.

I just wanted to warn other players to avoid having anyone else lose money for no reason.