I don’t do this very often and it might land me in hot water to do it but as a service to humanity here goes.
If you are looking for an IT partner: someone, say, to build a database driven web site and someone to help you with your email requirements, there are many companies to choose from.
Now, when you have an IT partner, you don’t expect them just to type out a load of php code that gives a web site that is not in the least bit interactive do you? You don’t expect to find HUNDREDS of coding errors do you? You don’t expect them to take thousands of Pounds in advance from you and then, having made all of these mistakes and having been very late on delivery, to charge you some more do you? Moreover, when you try to enter into discussions over the mistakes and lateness and you ask them to revise their charges in the light of that, you don’t expect them to take you to Court do you? You don’t then, whilst the negotiations are still under way, expect them to take down your web site and for them to place a notice for all the world to read that says that you have failed to pay your bill do you?
OK, in view of all of your ‘No’ answers; and bearing in mind that you would like a good and clean IT partner,
DO NOT under any circumstances approach Adstockweb of Milton Keynes
They may become very angry at this message if they hear about it and their managing director is a very wild character who screams in writing. He wrote at one stage to say that his people had worked overtime on our project that we had not been charged for and he KNEW that they had made just one mistake, a spelling mistake, in the entire project. When I confronted him with the hundreds of mistakes they had made, he didn’t respond. No apology, no retraction. He just carried on with his claim in the Court.
DW
2 comments:
Don't be apologetic about it, Duncan. There are far too many rogues and charlatans out there who will charge you oodles of cash in exchange for a tin helmet.
Take them on. You have the evidence, after all. You might like to have a peek at my blog - a little extreme, perhaps, but in my case, we're dealing with an extremely bent 'businessman'!
We did take them on, Wally. However, the man I was working with whose business was the victim here is financially inept and I had to put his company into insolvency so we couldn't meet these bleeders in Court. I'm sure we would have won but weren't to be given our day.
My blog entry, then, is the best that I can do to try to get at least a little bit back.
Duncan
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