I am the new owner of the sites and have been attempting to make arrangements with Erik regarding the removal of his blog post link. I am the one who removed the link upon purchase of the site, unaware of the history involved. I received a list of links that were to stay on the sites with their expiration dates and contact information, Erik’s links were not on that list and thus were removed.
Please continue to attempt to contact the previous owner of the site for your refund; if you are still not able to reach him then I would follow through with the chargeback.
Jeffrey