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by ge96 3297 days ago
Haha I thought this was a how to guide initially as a "good entrepreneur" mind you good to me is subjective, or is it personal. Money is money right? I can't ask my clients to pay me so I obvs don't support that.

Nice into the rabbit hole though, should see how bad it gets with VMs.
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mark_edward 3296 days ago
Are you saying you're a scammer? I'm having a hard time understanding this comment
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ge96 3296 days ago
No I'm not a scammer. I can't even ask my clients to pay me. Most recently these people got a big SEO audit pdf and I'm the poor bastard that has to do it for no pay hahaha. They're like "alright so... all these urls and how the db/pages work? Rewrite them..." and I'm pretty sure I'd break a good part of it, just because of how expansive the site is. (I'll decline at least on this part as it's beyond me, like being asked to integrate a PayPal recurring API payment thing)

Nah they're like my second best client ever but it's still I don't get paid hourly/"a reasonable fixed price" so no in short form, I have no self respect.

I was scammed once (at least), it was a site that said "Sell your ideas for money!" hahaha, I "sold my ideas" For a non-refundable fee of $99 and this also overdrew my bank account.

^^ That reinforces my original thought, I could build a similar "legit looking site" throw a payment system on there and get some poor schmuck like myself to fall for it and pay. Good job on me who built that site for say $17.00 and some time.

edit: I was scammed by this lady (beat up looking face) and this guy, her "son" or whatever... they were asking for gas but insisted I give it to them in cash (at the gas station). Yeah I'm pretty stupid.

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mark_edward 3295 days ago
I see, i commiserate. I got stiffed for a months work by a recent freelance client, i empathize. I'm sorry if I slighted you, guess I read the wrong thing out of your comment.

I hope you don't get scammed in the future.

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ge96 3294 days ago
No I'm out of line anyway (talking about clients when I'm publicly traceable), but it is true regarding not being paid. I've had a great client that actually paid me hourly but my skills were not up to par though. Mostly I've just been doing "fixed price" work which can drag on for months. Oh well... hopefully I build "SAAS" products or something.

No prob I didn't take offense I just talk too much haha

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