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Originally Posted by pliggedit  Hi sancho,
I have experience with professional development companies and centre's throughout the world on a daily basis handling pretty large projects, we also however use individuals for some specific work on projects. You say you have paid CMSTheme already for the work you required, but you did not give any information on what details you provided Ramil with. 1. Have you detailed your project to Ramil already so he knows exactly what you require design and feature wise also do you know if he began work when payment was made. Often referred to as a project development plan or as a scoping period? 2. Did Ramil give you a project completion date / delivery date for the work you paid for? 3. Has Ramil been in contact with you since payment was made on the 21st? 4. NEVER pay the full amount upfront, professionals are normally more than happy to work on target system normally four 25% payments. If they don't meet targets they lose cash, individual developers are normally more than happy to work this way also.
First payment at Planning stage, second at Start of development, third at testing stage of project and fourth after you take ownership of the project.
If you are still dissatisfied in a day or two's time with lack of replies from CMSTheme or the lack of anything you can see having been done to your project ie actual working proof not an image snap, you can contest your payment with Paypal and get your money back 
Hope you answer some of my points and the advice helps you, in my view Ramil should have been in constant contact with you throughout the project, if he has taken time off for the festive period he should have notified you of dates he would not be working and should not have taken payment at the time he did.
Basic courtesy is missing here as far as i can see. I would as always give benefit of doubt until i received a full explanation from Ramil however, somthing may have happened that hasn't to take priority, family illness etc.
Hope it all works out m8  |
This is the 2nd email I received from Ramil
Hi Andre,
You have contacted CMSTheme before about a Pligg template but for some reason we were not able to make a deal on designing a custom Pligg template for you.
Recently, I just released a non-exclusive Pligg template which is for sale. I thought that you might be interested on it. This template will be sold ONLY TO LIMITED NUMBER OF PEOPLE. This means that not everyone wanting this template can have this.
Demo:
Web CMSTheme / Published News Web CMSTheme / Modify profile
Template License:
CMSTheme.com Non-exclusive Theme Terms Of Use
The price of this Pligg template is only $115.
FREE Service Included
A purchase of this template will also get you:
1. Free new Pligg installation plus installation of this template.
2. Free template upgrade for every new Pligg version that comes out.
3. Free color customization.
4. Free text graphics change such as the text in Navigation, Categories, on header tabs, etc. However, graphics text on the sidebar such as Navigation, Quick Login, etc. can be replace with just pure text by using <h1>...</h1> tag instead of <h2>.
Please let me know if you are interested on buying it. Remember, it will be sold only to a limited number of people.
Thank you,
Ramil
I then asked him for a shade of blue similar to Microsoft or Google blue, also if possible to have a OLPC custom ad be placed where the Google ads would normally go. On the 23rd he said he had been sick and would be going on vacation until the 27th and asked if he could start then. I said no worries and have a good trip. On the 28th he contacted me saying that he had returned and would begin my project. So really it's been only 4-5 days. I was upset though that I hadn't heard from him so I asked if it was something I had done, to date he has not responded. If two weeks is a fair time from today, then I will contact him in 2 weeks.
Thanx for your help.