
Need some advice, troubling me for a while
Then he requested something extra, a customized solution. I calculated the costs via outsourcing this and gave him a price. And started work.
Now here comes the problem. Realized this type of business site is so big scaled that unless 50k+ is being pumped into this, it will not even work as well as expected. Especially with his customized points.
And luckily for me my outsourcer isn't that bad, but isn't that good either. Work is being done, but I can see that it's being done slightly sloppily and I have to keep reminding him etc. It's been going on like this for about a month (Deadline's not up yet, soon though), and I've been pulling my hair out. It's on a Magento platform, so there's newletters, small inner pages, templates, work flow etc and many other small details.
And this client has their sales team ready, their lawyers ready to start working on this business, and I look at the site and I don't see anything comparable with the original business site he wants to clone. I'm basically so flustered about managing this whole thing knowing it doesn't look and 'feel' as well as he expected. I've asked around, a site like this costs around $30-60k to make, I've been working for less than 15% of it, thinking I'd make a profit. One of the worst decisions I've ever made. Been killing my life the last 1-2 months.
I'm not sure how he's going to respond seeing the site. I myself wouldn't even use this site at all...seeing there's plenty of other big clones out there already.
Now I'm moving onto another business and web design isn't going to be done anymore, I have no idea what do I do now. Finding another company to take over this client when I'm done and maintain and take care of this website seems like an impossibility.
This has been affecting my life, my mood, my relationship, my business and everything else. I just become worried all the time. I can't even refund him, I don't even have money right now to return him and also pay my contractor. My contractor's been requesting for funds and I've got none till the project's completed and the client releases the funds.
I just seem to be in a big mess and really stressed out over this, and hope to hear what you guys think.
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