Charles Winters contracted to build two websites for me. Hetold me it would take 5 days. Two weeks after starting he told me the firstsite was 50% complete, and therefore he needed his second (of 3) payments. Iquestioned the work, he responded that he had completed the backgroundprogramming and that the site was essentially complete. Trustingly I paid thesecond payment. He then told me that the server on which my site was hosted hadproblems, so he needed to move the site to his own servers. This issue led to2 more weeks of delay. He called me desperate for money, requesting 50% of thefinal balance to be paid early. His phone was about to be disconnected and if Idid not give him the money, he wouldnt be able to be in contact and thereforecould not finish the job. It was either $200 immediately or no websites. Ifoolishly gave him the money. He then began working on my second site. Hetook the existing site offline, and proceeded to lose all the data. He blamedthis on a second server company crashing before he could back up any data. (Funny it had been working perfectly for a year before he accessed it). Every day for 4 weeks he told me the next day my sites wouldbe complete. Each promise was a lie, met by excuses about his car, hisroommate, ex wife, child, traffic court, and whatever reason he could conjureup that day. I finally demanded to be reimbursed. A 5 day agreement had turnedinto 6 weeks. My original functional site I had given him to improve, was gonewithout backup, and the complete site to be built was not complete andcertainly not functional. He refused reimbursement saying that he had done thework, nothing was his fault as the servers were at fault, and he believed hehad done the work (whether or not the sites existed). I threatened to sue him, his response was to threaten to destroy any site I ever built in the future, hewould destroy the materials I gave him, and unless I signed a release sayingthat all work had been completed satisfactorily, I would be sorry. Charles Winters is a pathological liar and incompetent atwebsite construction.in one 8 hour marathon work session, he managed to addone jpeg to a website. I do not believe he ever intended to do any work. He hascaused me 6 weeks of unrelenting stress for a job that was supposed to take 5days, he took my money, my books of photos to be used for the sites areprobably gone, and after all this time, I need to start again with someone new. I do not recall a more unpleasant transactional experience.
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