Dear @gailr,
We don’t want to create any drama and it is quite wrong to bring issues with the professional/paid versions of the plugin into the repository. Huge-IT has a forum for that. www.remarpro.com is for the Lite/Free versions of the plugin only. In any case, if you need to be replied, we could, but again, we think your review or the comment is not the correct place to be written on. We will leave it for moderators to review and decide whether this shall be kept here or not.
Let us divide your comments into sections and try to explain kindly.
1. In a word – you have been refunded for your purchase and we have stopped the customization after the fact when CEO found that you have been rude and disrespectful toward our support staff member. He found her being upset. He asked us to stop the conversation with you as the support staff member felt very bad after your comments. We try to be positive here and do the utmost in order to handle even the most difficult cases and do the most to find common ground with everyone, yet we do not tolerate disrespectful speech or insults toward our staff. For this case, CEO wanted the support staff member to cancel the conversation, apologize for nay inconvenience and refund you. This will help us not to waste any time for both parties and keep away from stress pressure.
2. “Most developers are grateful when you point out a bug in their plugin” – of course, we would have been grateful had you respectfully pointed to a bug, yet as mentioned there was NO BUG, just a missing feature that you thought have to be in the plugin for some reason. It wasn’t. WE suggest you to make a change and help you with that and send a customization for free (have in mind the fact that developers had spent time working on that customization). Yet, the point , described in 1. made us to stop with the customization.
3. “I was unable to get my gallery to duplicate” – As mentioned it was a website specific issue, the mentioned issue wasn’t recorded at our end. This is why we kindly suggested to a live chat session and a Team Viewer (pretty common practice), or any other solution that would have satisfied your needs in order to help you with the fix, with no luck.
Once again, it is never a wise solution to come up with all the negativity. WordPress is a community of volunteers , where we HELP people, not abandon or desert someone by pressure with negativity.
Have a great day and thanks for your bad review. Good luck and all the best with your project.