{"id":310,"date":"2007-01-04T23:33:31","date_gmt":"2007-01-05T04:33:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/myvogonpoetry.com\/wp\/2007\/01\/04\/hilarious-offer-for-web-design-services\/"},"modified":"2007-01-04T23:33:31","modified_gmt":"2007-01-05T04:33:31","slug":"hilarious-offer-for-web-design-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/myvogonpoetry.com\/wp\/2007\/01\/04\/hilarious-offer-for-web-design-services\/","title":{"rendered":"Hilarious offer for web design services"},"content":{"rendered":"

I posted recently on Candy Addict looking for someone to redesign the site<\/a> completely (via a WordPress theme) and one of the responses I got via my contact form was so funny I just had to share. This is the actual email I received – I can’t make this stuff up. I only changed the “NICKNAME” of the guy.<\/p>\n

Is this the latest internet scam? I kept waiting for the line where he says he is the son of the webdesigner for the king of Nigeria. Or maybe he is a spy and “webdesigner” is his secret identity? I feel all James Bond-ish. Maybe it’s just that he’s French, but since when are the French so secretive and covert?<\/p>\n

Hi Brian,<\/p>\n

This is my proposal to you, valid till Jan-10:
\n____________________________________
\nPROPOSAL:
\nI will design a new candyaddict.com prototype portal (about 2\/3 of the definitive one) before the end of January.<\/p>\n

If you like my new candyaddict.com prototype portal, we will negotiate then the fee\/payment (50\/50 should be ok), and then we will work for the definitive design.<\/p>\n

No compromise from you, nor from me, but I will appreciate that if you contract another web-designer you notice it to me asap to stop any further job.<\/p>\n

No pre-fees.<\/p>\n

This definitive job could be ready to publish & promote at the end of February.<\/p>\n

I understand that your main income from candyaddict.com comes from referrals, this implies a special strategy in design and marketing tools\/implementations to promote the portal, and this is included in my design offer.<\/p>\n

I will not send you for now a portfolio, nor an identifiable identity, but my nickname “NICKNAME”.<\/p>\n

I will not invoice you, you will pay me in any e-currency as e-gold.com or similar. If you really need an invoice, I will be forced to charge you an extra fee of about 500 US$, and my invoice will come from a “STATE webdesign inc.”<\/p>\n

Please note that my native language is french, so I might need from your team some text-syntax final check, or I can order it myself for an extra fee.<\/p>\n

No personal meetings, no phone contact, only e-mail.<\/p>\n

Final fee should be around 1000 US$.
\n____________________________________<\/p>\n

Let me know your comments about this proposal.<\/p>\n

NICKNAME
\nWebdesigner<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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