This contractor fooled me into thinking he is part of a team. He is not. He is a one man show who will bid on your job and try to sub-contract out the programming. His bid proposal/project outline looked professional. My best guess is that he has some graphic design knowledge. He was able to cut-and-paste my sample sites together to appear like something I wanted. But the show stopped right there. He did provide a few jpegs (wire frames) of what my interface would look like. But when I asked for a couple of simple tweaks he had a hard time grapsing simple concepts. So I let them go hoping to address them later. So for
the 1st week everything seemed to be going as planned. I paid $650 up front and once I saw the "wire frames", he asked for another $650 to continue on. Well here I am 10 weeks later and $1300 in the hole and I have nothing but 3 jpegs of what my interface might look like. I started to get nervous after about 1 month and asked Raman if this job was too much for him and "his
team". He seemed a little offended by the question, and insisted his "team" was capable of the project. After another week of nothing, I insisted on seeing any snippet of code to prove that any progress was being made. 2 days later I got back some patchwork of my own code I sent to him prior to hiring him. Now I knew something is really wrong. And I was upfront with
Raman with my concern. Again, He stated that a lot of work was being done and that I will be surprised with the results in another day or 2.2 days later I saw nothing until I contacted him again. Then he sent me a link to some little
menu that was probably from some previous project patched together to look like it was my project. And it didn't do anything. Now it is a few days beyond the project completion date, and the only thing I have is 3 mediocre jpegs. And the
whole time Raman is swearing he is making good progress, but now I am done. I want to cancel the project. And get a refund so I contacted elance and followed their advice. Now that I have been jerked around for over 2 months, Now Raman
won't respond to me or Elance. I will be pushing Elance to have this contractor removed from this site. Raman had prior feed back that seemed positive which also influenced my decision to hire him. Why he decided to take my money and
run I don't know. I was very fair and upfront, and didn't bother him until Istarted to get concerned. I have all correspondence via elance as proof that this contractor is totally at fault. Theonly thing Raman was good at was responding to my e-mails. But now that I filed for a refund he has chosen to disappea
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