[thelist] My company got ripped off

[Scott wolpow]

My favorite is after they realized they got screwed, then they call you.
But what they say is
"we just wasted 15k, so you have to do a great site on next to nothing"
I came to the conclusion a long time ago that people loved to ripped off.
I had the father of a childhood friend pay 40k to get five pages and fake 
listings for his site. He did not go with me because I did not have glossy 
brochures.

Now he thinks the Internet is a big scam.
Scott
scott at publiccto.com


At 10:24 AM 1/17/04, you wrote:
>At 10:01 AM 2004-01-16, you wrote:
>>How is it, that we struggle to make 1-2k on a full corprate website
>>free-lancing...  and yet, firms like this score 10k on a RE-DESIGN?  And
>>half-ass it at that.
>
>
>Salesmanship. Most people are as stupid as ravens and will drool at 
>anything that remotely excites the sense. Standards are abstract, 
>unimaginable and boring to Joe CEO, or John Marketer. If it doesn't 
>sizzle, it doesn't sell. Can you imagine that years after the fact 
>Microsoft is STILL in business? Same principle: "Just good enough" because 
>it's instant gratification.
>
>You've got two choices:
>
>1) Let it affect you and feel like crapfor the length of your life.
>
>2) Suck it up and deal with the unfortunate fact is that it is, has always 
>been and will always be part of the world.
>
>I can, however relate. The titillating and the political will almost 
>always over-run the sensible and logical. Humans are emotionally triggered 
>creatures, not logically triggered. Even those of us who like to think of 
>ourselves as logical.
>
>Them's the facts of life for webdevs. Sucks, eh?
>
>
>
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