It would seem that this is exactly what this thread is about. You started out by complaining about a developer and I don't think anyone can make an opinion about wether your complaints are founded or not without all "documentation and emails". What is clear to us is that there has been miscommunication, and without the documentation and emails, we have no idea what caused this miscommunication. - But please don't start publishing this here, *I* would not spend my time to go through them just to put the blame on the one or the other.

The cause of miscommunication could lay in language differences, but from the reply of the developer in this thread, I think I may conclude his English understanding is quite acceptable.

The cause could also be that you made unrealistic expectations about the project. But as long as we don't know what has been agreed upon or if anything has been formaly agreed upon, it is difficult to make a judgement. I would think, if you explained your requirements to the developer as (un)clearly as you did to us, you might also be (at least in part) at fault.

Or would you be trying out avenues for revenge, now that you feel you have been let down?  I could still think about other motives.

Anyway, if that all it is, I think we have spent enough bandwidth on the subject. Let's move on.

We have used other legal methods to resolve our issues with the developer. We wanted to post a simple warning to other developers and did not expect so many people wanting to put our case on trial. We did not go into a ton of detail, because it wasn't necessary to get the point across. It wasn't about price, who communicated better, it was about ethics! They quoted, we paid, nothing was delivered.

We have been doing this for years and have worked hard trying to communicate customer requirements clearly. We laid out what we wanted and felt the pride they quoted was reasonable for working on one mod. If you are ok with our experience, then use who you want to use. The comments and assumptions are wasting bandwidth.

We do appreciate those who added more than just personal comments or assumptions to the discussion. If we would have know there was going to be so much passion injected from other developers, we would have spent more time writing our initial post. So for that, we apologies.

We were just trying to help others who are looking. There is no financial gain for us to promote Rent-a-Coder. This thread is about DNN! It is about sharing our experience and having a discussion around outsourcing.

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