Knightlyguy
11-21-2008, 05:32 PM
Hi everyone,
I have a problem. I hired a developer on elance to build me a simple small website. I paid them and they developed 90% of the site.
For the past two months I have been trying to contact them and they have many excuses and have not done any work on the site in two months. When I hired them, three months ago, they did most of the work, but as of now nothing. I'm in the USA and they are in Russia. I have been trying to contact them for the past month and a half and they don't respond. Just last week I called them and they gave me another excuse and never got back to me.
I told them to just send me the files and I would have another company finish the site and they don’t respond and elance has now terminated their account for ripping off people. Seems they have done the same thing to a lot of others that hired them.
Can anyone tell if there is any way to copy the files from the web so I don't have to pay someone to start everything from scratch?
At this point I don't want to lose anymore time, let alone money.
I have a link to a beta site they have up and a link and a log in to the administration panel for the site, but I don't know if that is enough to salvage anything.
I REALLY need your guys and gals help. Any advice will be appreciated. I know most developers are good people, but these guys are not.
Please help!
I have a problem. I hired a developer on elance to build me a simple small website. I paid them and they developed 90% of the site.
For the past two months I have been trying to contact them and they have many excuses and have not done any work on the site in two months. When I hired them, three months ago, they did most of the work, but as of now nothing. I'm in the USA and they are in Russia. I have been trying to contact them for the past month and a half and they don't respond. Just last week I called them and they gave me another excuse and never got back to me.
I told them to just send me the files and I would have another company finish the site and they don’t respond and elance has now terminated their account for ripping off people. Seems they have done the same thing to a lot of others that hired them.
Can anyone tell if there is any way to copy the files from the web so I don't have to pay someone to start everything from scratch?
At this point I don't want to lose anymore time, let alone money.
I have a link to a beta site they have up and a link and a log in to the administration panel for the site, but I don't know if that is enough to salvage anything.
I REALLY need your guys and gals help. Any advice will be appreciated. I know most developers are good people, but these guys are not.
Please help!