primomade.com

Here is a perfect example of why craigslist cheap skates don’t get what they pay for…..

Now this is TYPICAL of taking the cheapest bid, they are undercutting everyone for this very reason. YOUR NOT GOING TO GET what you paid for, or if you get something its going to be flawed!!

• NO SEO (Search Engine Optimization)
• Some flash site – that search engines don’t like in the first place, don’t beleive me …… do a search on ANYTHING and I guarantee the top 20 – 50 sites will have no flash sites.
• Simple template you won’t be able to edit later.
• A free store (e-commerce) hmmmmmm free sounds good right? yes it does, to all the guys trying to hack the website, sure makes it easy for them when they can look thorough the code without having to buy it.

So essentially what happened to this guy is he gets the best (cheapest) deal available, from some guy overseas and now is stumped because he is ass deep into this project with no more cash and a half backed website to try and salvage.

Found this on Yahoo answers

“I have had a e Commerce / Internet Retail website built from scratch for me from a friend who is a Web Designer / Programmer.

What he created was something he built from scratch, but I had trouble working with him because of a language barrier. He did

not speak good English, it was hard for him to understand me and vice versa.

I had another friend of mine who was more experienced make a few changes but being that it was built from scratch from somebody

else and not a site that was bought “ready-to-use” he had some trouble making the changes but was successful with most. The site

is about 90% complete, there are a few little additions and changes that I would like to have made before I open the site for business,

right now its still under construction and has been for almost a year.

What I need is some changes to be made with the Shipping Options and Email options, might be one or two other things but as of

right now the most important is Shipping Option. In the Back-end of the website I can’t seem to add additional shipping options

for the customer to choose, so right now it has one option which is “Standard” but I want to add other options like “1st Day”

“2nd Day” , “Expedited”, etc. Something in that nature. Also, I would like to add an additional $0.35 per pound on certain shipping

options depending on the amount of the order and the weight of the products that the customer bought.

I wish I could do this myself, and trust me I have decided to take up classes and or courses on Web Design / Programming so I can

eventually edit or upgrade my own website when needed. But right now I need some help, I would like to have this done soon, I am

not expecting someone to quit there day job or working all hours of the night to help me out. If you get the job all I ask is that its

done at a reasonable time, i know that things come up and things happen so I am not expecting this to be done in an hour or so.

I do plan on making more changes to the website in the near future so if things work out I will definitely have you help me

out with that as well.”

• “college students welcome”  MEANS “we will pay you minimum wage to do Skilled work”
• “add to your portfolio”  MEANS “we don’t want to pay you”
• “partnership” MEANS “we won’t pay you”
• “excellent income potential” MEANS “we still won’t pay you”
• “we split the profits”  MEANS “you do all the work, from his idea written on a napkin, to a legitimate money making reality”
• “outsourcing firms welcome”  MEANS “you need to compete with overseas companies charging $10 an hour”
• “full time job” MEANS “we are too cheap to pay for Craigslist’s fees and so we are cheating the system by posting in the Gigs section”
• “answer a technical test” MEANS “cheat for me because I want a job I can’t do”
• “please call to discuss project”  MEANS “it is possible I have no idea what I want”
• “need help finishing a project”  MEANS “the last developer left because we kept changing requirements and delayed payment”
• “need a web designer for project” MEANS “I really need a web developer but don’t want to pay design rate”
• “locals only”  MEANS “the outsource firms keep spamming us and we’ll likely still get spammed”
• “web Intern needed” MEANS” “We want free labor”

Yet another of the many and growing number of ads asking for cheap website design, cheap customers expecting to get a Lamborghini for the price of a Yugo. Doesn’t anyone remember the old adage “you get what you pay for”.

The worst case scenario is the customer who thinks they know enough to be dangerous, if that was the case they could do it themselves, but because they think they know enough they know it’s simple?

Like the following example:

Website Design for Small Business (Toronto)

Date: 2009-08-27, 8:45PM EDT
Reply to: gigs-cm2zz-1346002469@craigslist.org

I’m an interior designer who’s starting my own company and am looking for someone to help me get my website up and running, along with creating business cards and a brochure for my business. I have the write up, images, and logo, but just need someone with technical know how to implement this. I purchased a template for the business cards and brochure (template can be manipulated using InDesign or Illustrator EPS), so essentially it’s a matter of plugging in my material into the template.

This is ideal for a student or someone looking to gain some experience, as I’m looking to do this on the cheap. Please forward a couple of samples of your work and your rates.

• Location: Toronto
• it’s NOT ok to contact this poster with services or other commercial interests
• Compensation: Negotiable

The problem here is she is already setting her new venture up to fail, the least you should do on a new startup is invest at least a reasonable amount of your capitol on your store front!

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This opinion coming from me a stanch advocate for the cheap domain registrar GoDaddy,
as is widely reported on assorted industry news feeds, what essentially was happening is after you let a domain lapse Bob would then pull those domain names into a company (subsidiary or sister company of Godaddy) called Standard Tactics LLC and hide the registration information, and either put them up for auction or hold them for the google ad revenues as parked domains.

The conflict as I see it is that they are in a very advantageous position to know inside information about when its going to expire, and have absolute first dibs at scoring the domain name and either reselling it at auction or just holding it for the revenue stream it will bring in based on the parked /adsense value it can pull in based on traffic to the site.

I would say that’s a little more like insider trading. But what do I know.

I think there should be a fair system for releasing domain names back into the public for resale other than to keep them unavailable for resell until the registrar has milked the name for all its worth prior to releasing it to the public, or to hold it hostage for the original owner to redeem it for a reasonable fee. $75+ I think is not a reasonable fee for a $10 domain name, unless of course you think 700% profit / penalty is a reasonable fee?