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It has been over a week and I haven't heard from Stephen. Too bad, his designs look awesome, but he quoted 4 - 5 days to complete and after almost twice that still no answer to my messages.
» StephenHarrow's reply: My account was verified in that period and because of this it had to be suspended until my ID card was checked. As soon as things got back to normal I explained the situation and accepted my client's dispute so that he received 100% of the payment that he had placed in the escrow account. Since the project failed to be completed until deadline the project was closed, but I proposed my client a considerable discount for the remake of the project or for the future projects he will have to make it up for this unexpected situation and I hope to have the chance to do so.
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10/10 the work is excellent. 10/10 the work is excellent. Minor issues which are related to project management from both sides which have been addressed. Key point is the written scope of work must be well defined and realistic schedule provided. It doesn’t matter if the project is a couple of hundred or multi-million. Project management methods must be used especially when working remotely.
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Stephen Harrow seams to have good potential, but has failed to complete our project after three months. The original project time line was for one week to one month. It has been three months and our project still isn't near completion. There was a time where we couldn't even get into contact with him for over a month.
Looking at Stephen's other work, it seams he has the potential to be a great web developer, it is also nice that he can write in clear English. But the ability to stay on task and the interaction with customers needs to improve before I would choose him.
» StephenHarrow's reply: My Getafreelancer account was suspended for some time while my identity was being checked and this slowed me down with all my work. This is the second project from a total of 4 I lost because of this situation, but I'm glad I managed to save all my other projects and deliver them as promised with top quality. The template requested by Stillavantis was fully functional for a long time but the design was off schedule. I take the blame for it and will consider more in the future unexpected events that might occur and interfere with my schedule.
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His work was superb. We had good communication while he was working on my project and offered me unlimited revisions until I was happy with the template he made for me. I will most definitely offer him work again.
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He can take your picture and make addons and edit it so it matches your vision. He do for what i knows unlimited reviews and are very politeful. My recommendations is strong. Tony
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The work went very fluently with Stephen. He delivered everything as agreed and he was reachable almost at any time, if we had a problem. I can only recommend him.
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Stephen did a fine job for me, and he was very patient with me because I was busy and didn't respond quickly to his questions. But he remained professional through the project, and I will gladly work with him again.
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He is such a cheater! He was bidding for $100 and when I choose him as a winner, he change it to $1200 and he will ask for the first thing to put an escrow payment because he will make sure he will get some money from that escrow after your project been despite with GAF according to the failure of his job !! and he will send you some rubbish work and tell you I cant work with your current budget!! WHY THE HELL YOU ACCEPTED FROM START THEN ??
I never recommends this cheater to any service buyer which need his service been done or accomplish, all what you will get from him his promises, promises and promises!!
Please Do NOT choose this provider, because he will lay and cheat to you and he will tell you you budget is $1 so I will work according to this money only and then he will request to increase to $100000 !!!
BTW, I give the same project to someone else, and he did it for the same money and great work!
I give this cheater --------------------0/10
» StephenHarrow's reply: In the initial terms of the project we agreed that I shall design 60-70 small images for an online game in exchange for 100$.After we agreed,he noticed me that he wanted animations instead of simple images. Since this was still in my area of expertise,as you can see on my profile page and I decided to continue the project even though he broke the agreement.He was unhappy with the animations I designed because he wanted them to be 'more hollywood-like' and 3D,a request I found offensive in the given conditions and decided to give up his project.I recommended him to find another graphic designer and warned him that he won't receive what he wants from any decent graphic designer for his budget,I gave him under GPL license the work done so far free of charge and agreed to give him back the money he deposited in the escrow account which eventually did happen.I won't comment his reaction and the way he treated me and the agreement, and will consider this a precious lesson to learn from.