Well, this is the second time I’ve seen one of these type of posts about dLook. Why bother spending hundreds of thousands developing a website, when you can get a cheap clone for between $300 – $1,500? Yep you too can have a dLook clone. This request was posted by kcashion from Townsville.
What gets me curious is “I only require the back end be cloned and I will provide the artwork…”. Perhaps that explains the 18x increase in “401 unauthorized” errors in February.
Wow, 21 bids already – be quick, only 36 hours left….
6 responses so far ↓
Happy Harry // March 3, 2007 at 8:12 pm
Lets hope this idiot has a good lawyer and very deep pockets.
Luke McCallum // March 3, 2007 at 11:28 pm
Gee Meg, it sounds like you paid too much!
I agree that it is flattering, but another F word also comes to mind, frustrating.
People just don’t seem to understand what it takes both in time and money to design and develop a successful website or web application.
The least this clown could have done was to give you a bit of respect and post a higher budget!
Meg // March 4, 2007 at 10:35 am
Hi Luke
I couldn’t agree more!
Alister Cameron, Blog Coach // March 5, 2007 at 1:10 pm
You have to wonder what the bidders are planning to do! Sometimes I’m suspicious that there are people out there, getting fired from (or just quitting) development companies and taking code with them… then selling that for chips.
How else can they get anywhere near providing the functionality of something like dLook?!?!
Either way, if the adage “you get what you pay for” is true, and if this guy is too stupid to know that… then I don’t he’s is going to cause anyone else stiff competition for business any time soon!
- Alister
ben barren // March 8, 2007 at 4:37 pm
all these auto-generated scripts are awful but rest assured not one successful website ever has had success. my first job at ninemsn, then microsoft was sidewalk, microsoft’s $1b attempt at dominating the local search/content market. so it can go to the other extreme too ! look at somewhere i used to work spending many millions to attack google and not a dent in search ads anyway
Meg // March 8, 2007 at 8:35 pm
Hi Ben
That’s comforting (well the bit about the auto-generated scripts)!
Thanks for stopping by