Re: Re[2]: What is in a name ? And who should it be registered f

With all due respect Samantha,

I do not intend on holding a prospective client, or any potential client,
hostage, because they chose someone else after I did some extra work to
impress them.  It simply isn't responsible, respectable nor professional.

A small business person learned a lesson the hard way.  It happens.  Since
when is experience free?

BTW ... as I mentioned, what cost needs to be recovered?  The registration
of the domain? ... c'mon, chump-change

The cost of the development?  From what I read, the developer decided to
create the 20 or so pages, not the potential client ... my understanding is
that the client asked for a temporary presence ... how hard and time
consuming is that?  It's business.  Had the contract been won, the recovery
would have been imminent ... since the contract was lost, the loss should
have been only minimal.

There is always going to be that element of risk ... it's the nature of the
beast.  Not all clients are going to be drinking buddies either ... nor are
they all going to be the epitome of professionalism.

Additionally, the costs involved to try and prove the "verbal agreement"
theory is much more substantial than the development of 20 pages.

cmj

At 01:58 PM 6/26/98 -0600, Samantha Clise wrote:
>
>     No way.  I would at least try to get some of your cost back.  
>     Experience is a wonderful thing, if it doesn't cost any money.  And 
>     what I mean by some of your cost is for the registering of the domain 
>     name and the expense in putting up the pages.  Sounds to me like they 
>     are pretty interested in the name, if you keep it for a while (not too 
>     long) they might be a little more generous.  And just so you know it 
>     sounds like your customers were real _________ like Kevin said they 
>     broke a verbal agreement.
>

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