This is for all of you developers out there who have busted their tails to produce a quality product. I have built a fairly complex website utilizing VB.NET with a SQL Server back-end. The database itself has over 20 tables and thousands of records.
The other day I got an e-mail from my client that she had received an e-mail that said the following:
"Could you Notify the Corp. Office, that their website is broken, and that the website company is a bunch of Idiots? None of the Database connectors work, and the services to send email from the website does not work either. Now, I don't have to tell you how important it is, to do all of that work and advertise the Businesses on the Web, so international public can view the offers. But How embarrassing is it, when you find a client, a buyer like me, that cannot even contact the Agent of the Opportunity, because some Yahoo does not know how to do his Job? I'm a Software programmer myself tired of Programming and wants to buy another ****, but when I see incompetence like this, it just makes me upset.
Please send this e-mail to the CEO of xxxx.com so he can see that the Public cares.
/ Thanks, Carl
Carl Schon
Doktor@Army.com"
The e-mail was sent from a gmail account, "[mailto:prince1099@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Doc".
So, if any of you come across this extremely lame marketing technique, just wanted to make sure you were aware. Pass it on - maybe this person will realize that if he/she wants help from other developers out there they shouldn't do this underhanded crap.