I will never ever work with this guy again. I was using a Wordpress theme with Demo content. The site was already majority built, I just needed him to make some changes to the site.
I paid him $200 to make the changes, $100 up front, $100 after, which is more than he charges for a website. Throughout the time, he had sloppy work to where I had to go back and correct it myself. I figured it’s only $200, so it’s to be expected and dealt with it.
About a month and we finish only the front end of the website. The website we were doing was a basic listing website, where users can come to upload their listings. He now asks for the rest of the money. I still needed him to finish things, but he would not until I paid him the rest.
Specifically what I needed done was to activate Owner users to be able to create listings. It’s a setting somewhere and should only take 5 total minutes max, but I do not have the time to find it, that’s why I paid him so I wouldn’t have to worry about it.
He then demands to pay him the rest of the money before “beginning new points”. I didn’t want to, because I figured he would stop working on my project. Which is exactly what he did. I tried telling him it’s a simple setting that needs to be enabled.
Now he is snippy and wants $50 just to enable the setting. I still have the whole backend user of the site that needs to be done and was willing to pay him extra for more work because I just need it done. But now he goes back and forth.
He also told me to leave a positive review in exchange for enabling the setting. Which I refused and told him I’d gladly pay him instead.
Overall, use him if you need some decent work that you’ll have to go over and fix. I wouldn’t have made this negative review if it wasn’t a combination of everything. Expect difficulty with communication