[consulting] Failed Outsourcing Job

[Joel Willers]

I would communicate with him. Tell him you're going to find someone else, the deadline has passed and you're not satisfied. However, if he would like some compensation, offer to pay for the work he's done, and then negotiate what you think is fair. 

Communication is always key.

Joel 


-----Original Message-----
From: consulting-bounces at drupal.org [mailto:consulting-bounces at drupal.org] On Behalf Of Fred Jones
Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2013 7:25 AM
To: A list for Drupal consultants and Drupal service/hosting providers
Subject: [consulting] Failed Outsourcing Job

A question of legality and ethics: I hired an outsourcer (from
freelancer.com) to make a D7 theme. The deal was crystal clear that he has until the deadline to finish it 100% or I pay nothing and he agreed to that.

He has done about 80-85% of it but no more than that. So I will not pay him and that's that.

But he put in download links on the Appearance page and so I downloaded his work and I have it. I could now finish it myself and hire another person to finish it and pay them $100 instead of the $500 that he was supposed to get.

Question is should I just take it and run because we never clarified who owns anything and he *did* make it downloadable. Or perhaps I should tell him that I will pay him $100 and take his code and if he accepts, then OK.

I don't want to continue with him because he clearly can not finish the job--he keeps asking me to review it and the dropdown menus are wrong each time plus 30 other details that he just can't get right.

Thanks for any thoughts.

Fred
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