That Dreaded Word
Every so often there is an enquiry that fills one with hope and causes a surge of optimism in one’s breast.
When further enquiries are made, the respondent informs you that they would love you to ‘partner’ with them.
Ahem, that means either pay cash (usually several thousands) to get on their directory or it means ‘do lots of work for us for nothing’ on their website. Sorry, there is a rate for the job.
On another matter, I was talking to a local trader today who informed me that, over two years ago, he had forked out R8,000 as a deposit for a Joomla website to one of the local web designer yokels. As of this morning, nothing. It turned out fairly early on that whoever it was who said that they could put a Joomla website together disappeared off to Oz. Instead of refunding the client if there was no way of getting his job done, they have clammed up. Talk about giving website designers a bad name.