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I posted an advertisement on Craigslist looking for someone to install a basic homepage graphic slider. Aaron Guldager from A&M Studios contact me and told me that he has experience and can do it right away. He started the work in the middle of the night and when I awoke told me he was finished and that its done. When I looked at the site he put the slider not just on the home page but on each and every page of the website. This included the checkout page which caused insecure pages to pop up and likely cost me money as customers likely did not place orders. I am not sure how he did not know that he did this. His work also cause other site problems including broken image zoom and other cosmetic issues.
I informed him of this and then 2 days later he put the slider in the right place however was halfway down the page. For some reason he had tons of spaces between the site logo and the slider. I had someone else fix this because Aaron wrote an email saying that it took him forever to do this and that he should have asked for more money. Not sure why he didn't know this and ask for more upfront rather than do a crappy job.
A few weeks later a simple google verification line of code needed to be added to the site. When it was this "slider" disappeared. I copied the original code and replaced it but still did not come back. I contacted Aaron to ask him to fix it and he asked me for more money. I was desperate but paid him anyway.
Again overnight he did the work and got the slider to show but had the same gaps that he did the first time. It later disappeared again when I went to make an unrelated change in the template (again backing up the file and then replacing it back in) I contacted my shopping cart host who basically told me that the developer rigged the slider in incorrectly and that anytime I make a change it will disappear and only he will know how to fix it. I did not hear back from A&M Studios all day so emailed them again asking them to fix the slider so that it works and does not have spaces. This was the response:
"I'm super slammed right now. I don't have the time to be looking at this stuff for free." For free? I paid him additional money to fix what shouldnt have had to be fixed to begin and he doesnt fix it and then gives the line above. I contacted him explaining that I did pay him and that it needs to be fixed long term and not just a fix that only he can do when a change is made.
He told me to find someone else to help and refused to refund any of the money. Stay away from this guy Aaron and A&M Studio. He is an amateur and does horrible work and offers no support for their work even when they do horrible work to begin with. Total rip off web developer, web designer, blog creator. etc. Would never use Aaron Guldager oe A&M Studios for anything. TOTAL RIP OFF FRAUD DEVELOPER
Have had great success doing so many times. This was the first bad experience
I do all the time. This particular job was outside the scope of what they actually do. Posting the ad on Craigslist is not the issue here. It's the particular person/company that was selected to do this job. Thanks Paul
Yes all this in hindsight is great.
Hello!
This posting was recently brought to my attention... I've taken quite a bit of time to compile a thorough rebuttal: http://anmstudio.com/blog/response
To any prospective, or current clients, I urge you to take 5 minutes and read my response and compare & contrast it with the original post. I know it's long, but I would appreciate it.
I should note that this is quite the dramatic conclusion based on just a couple hours of work.
@david -- I've only worked with one David in the past two years, he was located in FL. If this is you, please shoot me an email because I'd like to know what happened for you to write that.
Aaron over promises and under delivers - CONSISTENTLY! Look for another developer.
I agree with the poster we used Aaron and he took longer and never finished the project.
At the end he just stop responding to our emails.
Stay away.