Originally Posted by AmeliaG

That guy stole without having to. The money he stole from me was for something which would have taken almost no labor on his end -- literally like 15 minutes if he had to do it manually and was lying about his software capabilities -- and it would have cost him nothing, but he decided he would rather just rip me off.

He insisted we speak on the phone when negotiating, which is usually a red flag to me. Last rip-off artist I allow to coerce me into chatting on the phone.