Last week I had the pleasure of meeting and contacting four of
Alphashare's new members, some I have personally seen others via telephone.
For reasons I will not mention names as I don't want to upset anyone - however, upon meeting these companies I realised that there are so many rip off designers out there that string jobs out over months and months on basic sites which would take a normal straight designer one week, charging ridiculous prices which I could not justify myself - prices which would get you an all singing all dancing site which would fly you to the moon and back, promise everything under the sun and fail to deliver such as
SEO work which is basic stuff but still not done and taking these poor agents for a complete ride!
One agent paid 1000 US dollars for one template! Another paid 5,000 euros for a joomla website which could not be found if you sat there and stared at it, another is paying 600 pounds sterling a month for
SEO work which doesn't have a title, keywords, description, etc - basic stuff that you do before you design the site! Obviously I am in the wrong job and probably the rest of us that can build sites!!!
Now these agents are in the safe and professional hands of
Alphashare so all worries are gone....
And you begin to understand why there is a lot of mistrust in the web industry especially when you have spent thousands of euros or pounds on a project which is not just a waste of time and money but also a really stressful experience.
I thought I would post this to see if any more of you have had bad experiences with website designers and
SEO firms - for you to vent your anger!
