Reviews Of Freelancers

Jason
http://www.sitestomp.com
jason@sitestomp.com

I found Jason from Ohio on this message board - http://www.wickedfire.com & contacted him on August 29, 2008.

I asked him if he was available to do work for us & he said yes, his turnaround time was 12 days.

I sent him a list of questions which he was surprised about. That should have been my first clue that he’s unprofessional, & that anything that isn’t 100% easy for him meant he was eventually going to cause me a who lot of stress. Sometimes I never learn.

Any real professional shouldn’t be surprised at all by simple pre-sale questions, so it was clear to me that none of his clients really send him questions prior to hiring him.

I was very patient with him waiting for over a day each time just to get a response back from him & I told him I would like all the preliminary issues to be finalized by the end of the weekend & it was even a long weekend, so I thought it wasn’t that big a deal to expect us to address my simple questions by September 2, 2008. Boy was I wrong.

Then he tells me he doesn’t use Photoshop, he uses Corel PSP x2 which doesn’t produce PSDs, only PSP images. I discuss this with my assistant who says there should be a way to save it as a PSD. I don’t hear back from Jason until 2 days later. He tries to make excuses that the Corel won’t save the image properly & his friend & him tested this out.

Since I’m really being patient here, I tell him that I’d like this all finalized (not the design, just all the business type issues) by this coming Saturday, as it’s already been a week now & not much has been settled which means I can’t even order anything from this guy. This is when he starts to piss me off telling me I should probably go look for another designer. I was waiting on this unprofessional graphic web designer this whole time & NOW he decides to tell me this, so I tell him this is VERY unfair to me to keep me waiting & can he sent a copy of that file to my assistant to fool around with it, & I give him the e-mail address.

Here’s where I really lost my temper.

Jason has the NERVE to tell me that he told me he was too busy, that he was busy this weekend etc. (all lies). Jason never told me that it would take this long to deal with simple payment & file type questions, I mean come on, my questions should take no more than 15-30 minutes to talk about via IM.

He tells me his other clients are obviously way more important than me (great business person - NOT) & that he knows I’m going to be difficult, so I should go find someone else. When people are a certain way, they tend to tell others they are just like them. Jason was clearly difficult to deal with, so he tries to make ME out to be the problem instead of accepting responsibility for his mistakes, miscommunication, unprofessionalism etc. Then he lied again on the message board when I warned others about him saying he NEVER told me he didn’t want to work with me & to find some other graphic web designer.

I guess saying: “I can already tell you’re going to be extremely difficult to work with, so I would prefer if you found another designer.

Thanks for your time.

- Jason”

doesn’t mean that Jason told us to go take a hike. Boy, don’t graphic web designers understand the same English language I do?

Once again, these arrogant, unprofessional, immature graphic web designers string a professional business along, lie about when they are or not available, & cause me to lose my temper.

When will I ever learn that these graphic web designers who come from these message boards aren’t respectful, they don’t really care about anything but money, because if they cared about the person, they would be upfront & honest & say they can’t address any of this now, please check back in 2 weeks when a lot of my work has settled down, but Jason never said that.

And what kind of a designer can’t even produce a simple PSD file?

<sigh>