Hope, The bug still exists. There was absolutely NO work done. He was asked to provide screenshots and documentation of the bug before making any code changes. That wasn't done either. He tried invoicing another well-respected member of this list 65 hours for "reading documentation" when he was tasked with building a simple web form. $150 is a small price to pay to smoke-out a fraud. This guy's a fraud.
Greg On Dec 12, 2007 11:58 AM, Robinson, Hope A <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There is more to programming than writing code. > > If the bug no longer exists, Vince did his job. If we didn't charge for > the time it takes to investigate, we would go broke as programmers. The > way to make this right is if Vince offered to look again if the bug > exposed itself within a certain timeframe. It is unfair to use this > forum to essentially discredit someone's work. This is why we have the > Better Business Bureau. If I was Vince and I lost potential clients > because of the email, I would seriously consider getting some legal > consultation especially if the accusations were false. Giving an > unsolicited reference on someone's work in this way is both unethical > and unfair. I am sure that those hiring for telecommute work are > intelligent enough to ask for references and if not, it's their own > fault they got slighted. > > Have a wonderful day everyone!!! > > Hope A. Robinson > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jesse B [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2007 11:10 AM > To: CF-Jobs > Subject: Re: Senior Coldfusion Developer wants Telecommute work for > $25.00 > > I'm probly going to get flamed for this but I feel it is necessary to > expose the fact that this guy Vince is not always on the up and up and > anyone considering hiring better check with some of his recent clients. > Also consider covering your backside when you make payment and use a > credit card so you can chargeback if your deal goes bad. > > After being hired to do some bug fixes by a buddy of mine Vince invoiced > him for 6 hours of work fixing a bug. Now I will admit his work should > have been validated prior to payment but my buddy is a very trusting > person and figured based on Vince's claims about his experience that > working with him should not be a problem. So Vince was paid via check > for his time. Then when he was asked to deliver the code for the bug fix > that he was hired to take care of he started coming up with these > different excuses about the task he was to work on. After it was said > and done Vince never produced one line of code and finally admitted he > was unable to reproduce the bug, so he got paid for "getting familiar > with the code" as he puts it. > > So the question is will Vince give back the money or will he honor his > agreement with his client and fix the bug? He is $150 richer for just > looking at some code and doing nothing... > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Get the answers you are looking for on the ColdFusion Labs Forum direct from active programmers and developers. http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/categories.cfm?forumid-72&catid=648 Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Jobs/message.cfm/messageid:6065 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Jobs/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.13
