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Originally Posted by AsianDivaGirlsWebDude
Harvey, I paid the deposit since you said you could do the work. If you had delivered the project you would have received the other $750. You had all of the contact info for the CMS people. It was the responsibility of you and them to work it out since you are the technical people.
Nonetheless, I intervened several times and tried to facilitate getting answers to the issues you kept saying were preventing you from doing the work.
I had five other sites which you would have received the additional design work and pay for if you could have successfully completed the first project, but I never saw more than one page from you that was 100% operational, and that was not even integrated into the CMS.
I know you have skills, and you seem like a decent enough guy (that's why I hired you in the first place), but I told you from the beginning that communicating with me was key and I expected results.
You said you would get the work done in less than a month, and after two months you had made very little progress. Also, for weeks at a time you failed to communicate with me.
So, after two months, I felt that I had to cut my losses at that point and seek out a different designer.
The bottom line is I lost $750 with you, plus CMS lease money, and hosting costs.
Unfortunately, that's how business goes sometimes.
Well, good luck making your big score with your secret plan!
ADG
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Laurence, just to be clear:
a) the programmer contacted me after like 3/4 weeks of request it. He said everything was fine and could never explain why the site wasn't working. You know it and I have the mails to prove it.
b) you never let me finish the site, simply canceled it
c) don't you think I'd prefer to finish the site and be fully paid?
d) the price was $1000 for the design and $500 for the integration. You paid $750 and LOVED the design. You said it, not me (well, I love it too, of course). So I could say that, TO THE VERY LEAST, you still owe me $250 only for the design. It's not my fault that the CMS in question had unprofessional support that didn't like to work, you hired me for INTEGRATION, not custom programming (which I wouldn't be able to do anyway). So, as I said, I left it at that, knowing that I was losing money on that project and probably on future projects. And I kept my mouth shut, so don't know why are you bringing this when you're the one owing me money.
Anyway, you know I really respect you and like you, and that's one of the things that bothered me most when you cancelled it out of the blue, more than the money. I'll just ask you a question, answer it if you want, no big deal: did the CMS work AT ANY GIVEN POINT? dit it ever work with its default config and skin? We both know the answer, and when I do an implementation, I assume it's over a WORKING SCRIPT. If it doesn't work, it's not my fault, I'll try to help you (AS I DID) but I can't do more beyond certain limits.
Anyway, feel free to hit me up on ICQ or by mail, I really have no problem with you