Stale Partnership

With all that hype over the recent 'boyfriend stealing' story, mine is a 'customer stealing' story.

I have been in the blogshop business for quite some time now, over 2 years already. And over the years I had had a few collaborations with different partners.

Then came along Miss X. She's previously a customer of mine, but she somehow added me on Facebook & we somehow became mutual friends. It was up to a point where she suggested we start a blogshop together, and stupidly, I agreed.

Everything started as planned. We both took out money as business capital, we segregated tasks and so on. As I have a huge list of customers, it wasn't difficult to get buyers to visit out site once it's launched.

The first month went well, sales were good and we both had out fair share of work & income.

However, in the second month, I started to notice her slacking a little. She would forget CODs and would never have time to reply enquiries regarding measurements (cos she keeps the stocks) and is always posting items out late.
Really bad for business and people started complaining.
I didnt want to scold her or anything since I only knew her for about 8 months, so I constantly sent her reminders to complete her tasks.
But the last straw came when she purposely did not COD with a customer cos she was too lazy to exit the cinema and meet up with her. She left that poor girl waiting for over an hour before texting her to say that she cant make it!

I was so pissed and I told her off.
She got pissed and told me she wants to quit the partnership.
With that, she asked for her half of the profits and hung up the phone.
Seeing how pointless the situation was, I decided that would definitely be for the best. I banked in her half into her account and then texted her to divide the stocks as well.

No reply.
I called her. No reply.
She deleted me from Facebook & wouldnt approve me when I added her back.
She changed her number.
She changed emails too apparently.
And she exported ALL my customer contacts for her own usage.
I then realized that I never even knew where she stayed.
So it's obvious that she had been planning this from the very beginning.

2 weeks after, she started her own blogshop with another partner.
And the first batch of clothes are the leftovers from our blogshop which she had kept.
UNBELIEVABLE.

I had to get a friend to arrange a fake COD session with this girl before I finally confronted her.
And in the beginning, she even denied knowing me. WTF.

In the end, she just refunded me RM250 from the sale of 'our' clothes and never even apologized for stealing my customer list.
Some people are just too much, but Im willing to let it go.
Lesson learnt: Only start partnerships with people you know & TRUST.