When you draft the contract, have them pay a portion up front, and another portion after approval of the fixed site (but before moving it to production). This way, they're already well into the project financially and it would make them think twice about backing out given the amount of money they've already given you.
-- Mosh Teitelbaum evoch, LLC Tel: (301) 625-9191 Fax: (301) 933-3651 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW: http://www.evoch.com/ > -----Original Message----- > From: chad [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2002 11:24 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Advise Needed > > > We were approached by a company to refresh their web site. It currently > is a mess of PHP, CGI, and perl. Basically it does not work. It pulls > a 500 error everytime something is added to the basket. > > They want us to quote moving the site since they cannot get anyone to > fix their current web site. I am really afraid of moving the site to > one of our servers since we don’t have one that is PHP/Perl. > > I am afraid we will spend more time fixing the old site then it is worth > and once we got it running they would bail out on the CF refresh we > quoted them. > > I would rather leave the site at the current provider, fix the site so > it at least works, then start developing the CF refresh. > > Then comes my fear that once we get the site running they will never > want to do the CF refresh we quoted them. > > I suppose we will have to invest in a lawyer to draw up a contract that > says we will fix the current site and they WILL contract use to do the > CF refresh. > > Any other ideas on how to approach this situation? I don’t want to get > burned. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists&body=lists/cf_talk FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Signup for the Fusion Authority news alert and keep up with the latest news in ColdFusion and related topics. http://www.fusionauthority.com/signup.cfm
