<html><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>They just fell off the map<br><br>Sent from my iPhone</div><div><br>On 10/05/2009, at 12:30 AM, William Smith <<a href="mailto:william.darren@gmail.com">william.darren@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>"Four contracts with four developers, four 50% deposits, and the site still isn't live. <br><br>
Well, something is seriously wrong here."<br><br>Indeed. It does happen that things can go off the rails sometimes (illness, an inexperienced dev shop biting off more than their schedule will allow them to chew, etc..), but 4 developers with the same result? It certainly seems bizarre.<br>
<br>"Superwoman", I'd be very very interested to know where you sourced these developers from. Was it a *lancer type site? Were they all from the same place? Etc..<br><br>Were there any complaints from the developers before they ditched, or did they just fall off the map?<br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 10:14 AM, Mehboob Alam <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:malam@thinkx.com"><a href="mailto:malam@thinkx.com">malam@thinkx.com</a></a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
"Fool me once, shame on you.." scenario comes to mind.. after the third time, the client should look inward and figure out what they might be doing wrong. It takes both sides working to make a project successful.<div>
<br></div><div><div><div></div><div class="h5"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 9:17 AM, Sam Cohen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sam@samcohen.com" target="_blank"><a href="mailto:sam@samcohen.com">sam@samcohen.com</a></a>></span> wrote:<br>
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Ok, first developer situation goes bad -- and unfortunate.<br><br>The second goes bad, less common, but it happens.<br><br>Four contracts with four developers, four 50% deposits, and the site still isn't live. <br><br>
Well, something is seriously wrong here. <br><br>I'd be curious for you to share more details about the situation.<br><font color="#888888"><br>Sam</font><div><div></div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 5:48 AM, Ashish Gupta <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ashish.gupta@tekritisoftware.com" target="_blank"><a href="mailto:ashish.gupta@tekritisoftware.com">ashish.gupta@tekritisoftware.com</a></a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Hi Superwoman, not sure if you got my mail. Please send across the details<br>
of the project to me as well so that we can take the discussion further.<br>
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No condescending tone from me pity u took it that way. Im just frustrated.<br>
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Thanks for the offer brian I will send an email off the post with a more<br>
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