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Originally Posted by k0nr4d
It's not necessarily an unreasonable or malicious request. My guess is you see some issue he is unable to recreate in his own environment and needs to see it first hand to see what is wrong. We do it sometimes too - albeit usually something more complex like broadcasting live video etc, not really on a simple website. Probably you have your display settings in your OS set to zoom or your browser zoomed.
$80 is not expensive, and if he's billing hourly you probably want him to resolve this as quickly as possible - if he has to spend hours figuring out how to recreate the issue (which is the first step to fixing it) it'll cost you more then just letting him use chrome on your computer for 3 minutes.
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Konrad knows best on this... and the fact that you needed to ask the question implies that you should always go with someone you trust and vetted them. In short some circumstances it is required - I won't comment on pricing since every programmer knows what their services are worth and what they need to do - so likely he's trying to do his best