[thelist] My company got ripped off

[Wesley Mason]

Seen this phenomenon myself a few times, last time was the father of a 
college acquaintance who decided to go with a local "rip-off" webdev 
company rather than myself, and ended up paying ~£10K for a few 
EMCAScript coupled pages and supposedly professional photographer, who 
ended up using a £200 digicam to take rather sub-par shots of the 
business.
Took me a while to get over the stupidity of that one, but in the end I 
just laughed at their stupidity, still makes me laugh to this day.

--
Wesley Aaron Mason
(1st Vamp)
Weblog from nowhere: http://1stvamp.org/
Webcomic from somewhere: http://gfbowl.com/


On Jan 17, 2004, at 16:26, Scott wolpow wrote:

> 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
>