It doesnt make a difference, i have the emails saying it will be done on the due date, and i also have all the bullshit excuses emails along with the fake launch dates...

I do have documentation, he knows he bailed on the project and didnt finish the job he committed. He cant even deny that.

He just makes up excuses such as 'i was rude" after waiting for 5 months, apparently if you dont ignore someones email for over a week and th person says "Where the fuck are you" that is rude.

Who knew? i thought blowing someone off along with the project they PAID you for was rude..

Do you have a signed contract at the beginning with exactly what the project will entail?

Just pointing out what needs to get done before the project starts and while it goes on to make sure everything goes smoothly and if not, the legal means you have to not pay and/or get your money back. And beyond the legality make it go smooth.

Both parties, by what I read, are too blame on this. Both did not handle the whole situation right.

Only thing i did wrong was not make a contract..

Was anything delivered to you? Cause if it was, then you would actually have gotten what you paid for... Half the project for half the money... So the only issue would actually be that it wasn't finished...

Given you actually waited 5 months instead of taking action to get your project completed earlier, I suspect you're partly to blame as well.. If you were working for a company and this happened, you would be fired for not getting your project done on time.. I'm not saying the programmer isn't also to blame and isn't a dick for dropping the ball, but at the end of the day, you're ultimately responsible...

Stop being cheap

the site is more than 90% done and its all in his hands. he got way way way way more than his money's worth. :2 cents:

You have a lot of last comments.. but maybe is 75% done.. of what you "remembered we agreed on"

You are spot on!

thks for the info.... ")

Unfortunate; deadlines are a big problem in this business. It's hard to work with designers and coders.. ont he other hand it's hard to BE a designer or a coder...

fiddidy:upsidedow

let's keep this story alive..

That dosen't excuse the programmer. If he agreed to do something and isn't doing it, it's his fault.

hope you will find better man who will work on your site.. Good luck

You should refound his deposit if you're not going to finish the project.

Just by agreeing you took his deposit, and didn't finish 100 % of the work, makes it bad business.

As I said, it's YOUR fault for underbidding on a project, so you should either finish it, or give him a refound AND the work done as compensation for the time wasted.

My point exactly, and if for some reason he couldnt, give me more notice before 5 months goes by

keep it alive

not when finishing the project means doing a bunch of extra shit that was never specified or agreed upon. yes it was wrong to drag it on as long as I did, but I had every intention of finishing the project, I was only going to work on it when I had the extra time because it was a huge loss for me. His attitude is what fucked it up.

Banthis is what I call, a feature creep. His instructions were extremely vague and whenever I'd do something, he'd want to add several layers of complication to it that were unspecified in his project requirements. After he was well over his $1000 with me in time, the project had to take a backseat to other things. Thats what happens when you try to lowball someone. You can whine and cry about bad business all you want, but you are wrong. I'm all about good business and making money.. Not doing favors for 19 year old kids who try to weasel free work out of people.

banthis reminds me of sonofsam