got screwed - dont trust anyone

[kovan]

some people just have NO morals...

the place i work at there is this guy that got a little hubby club.
they wanted me to do a website for them..
so i put a little detailed package togather...

and they agreed to give me 350$CAD
the page was done...
and this guy comes n says "i am sorry but we had a better offer... "
now i got screwed for all the time i put into the project
and mind you i woudn't do such project for 1500$ for a company..
but i was being nice and wanting to get them started...

there was no contract, just a verbal one..
so DO NOT DO VERBAL AGREEMENTS

I agree with you 100%. I too did web pages for companies, and let me tell you, if it were not for the contract, I would have been hung out to dry too.

Knight

[Arbiter]

My friend,

I learnt long ago that verbal agreements are not worth the paper they're written on.

If I do ANYTHING nowadays, I want it signed, in triplicate, in the devils own blood!

[tumblingdown]

I'm friends with the Devil, some maybe i could hook you guys up.

For a fee, of course.

[PRIVATE1]

The best way to do some thing like that is send them SCREEN SHOTS only . Don't EVER give them a finished product .

They screwed you for $350 CANADIAN?????? Cheap-assed
bastards.

Next time, deal with a higher class of *******.

DerFarm

And next time, think American. Americans, like me, like to get paid a little before we do a job. So always try and get a little money from the person first to show that he is interested, and once you are done, you get paid the rest.

Pretty smart? Eh? That is the American way.

Those bastards, that's definitly considered getting screwed. That's pretty mean, but than again, people are just like that .
Can't believe someone would do that. Did you give them the website and they use it? When you get sh*t on, it ****ing sucks! *hears a sudden voice...* KILL KILL KILL!

Yeah,
after whipping the **** out of brits in the revolutionary war, than whipping the **** out of each other in the civil war, then whipping the **** out of some poeple in WW1, and whipping the **** out of some more people in WW2 and korea, and getting the **** whipped out of us in vietnam, than whipping the **** out of iraq in persion gulf.... well, us americans have learned that you must get your money before doing any work like that... than you can screw the person who was trying to screw you...

[kovan]

i aint that dumb usually
but when you have a co worker that you trust and that you actually like..

so i said "what the hell i will do it.."
and now they r not paying me
looks like am going to court for it
got to find where the freaken small claim court is and how to go about going to it
350 is NOTHING
i make that from selling ONE computer
but its just the moral aspect of it that pisses me off

[Chris_SE]

I was supposed to do a large business site for a wireless direct store in my area. I was getting paid about 1,000 for it. I finsihed about half of it when they decided to go for a million dollar ecommerce site. Bastards GRRRRRR

[Juan Carlos Rey]

I close friend got screwed by a big company. Cinemark. They contracted him to make an automatised phone answering machine, some 8 lines, to announce the programs. HE made it in 7 days. They told him they would tst it for a couple weeks (no payment still) and then they decided not to buy it, thou it worked better than expected (my friend added a few features on his own). Also no contract, only verbal agreement. My friend lost not only his work, but a big bunch of hardware also.

[Edited by Juan Carlos Rey on 10-18-2000 at 11:16 PM]

[PJB]

I've been going through the same thing, i hate to ask for money down but nowadays ya pretty much have to, anything to do with hardware i at least get the cost of parts up front, if it's for a program or web-site i ask for a minimum of 30% down, i feel like a bastard at times doing it but i've grown accustomed to eating over the years...

[Sacred_knight]

EH!

"And next time, think American. Americans, like me, like to get paid a little before we do a job. ....

Pretty smart? Eh? That is the American way. "


What a typical arrogant American point of view.

Do you actually think America originated or practice this concept?

Why is the attitude typically American? I would say it is
typically smartass, knowitall, youngsters who drink too much.

Anybody whose been in any business long enough has gotten
screwed, either in reality or in their own mind. Most of
us deal with it by getting contracts that define a certain
non-refundable amount based on the proposed completion
date. Some of us deal with it by becoming ..... other
things.


DerFarm