What A Free Website

Sucked in by “FREE”

What free cost me

Taking it back a couple years I wanted a website and a mate of a mate suggested he would looove to build me a site.

OK

I offered to pay up front, but he insisted he wanted to do my site for free.

What do you think? Why Not.

I had nothing to loose, I knew nothing about websites.

SO FAR SO GOOD

That site at the end looked choice, at least to me it did.

A month went by and the bloke gave me a call and said he was gonna be charged $100 for the domain name. I had to pay for it if I wanted the site to stay up. No worries I paid and asked for a receipt, he was ok with that.

A few months later he hit me up again for an annual fee to pay for hosting $400, he explained what it was and again I was cool with that, paid the money, received a receipt.

Later on down the track for some unbeknown reason I came across a web builder, we chatted as you do, I told him about my site he had a look at it, then he asked me, if in the future I wanted to update my site consider his services.

He went through all this stuff that should be on my site to get traffic, blah, blah, blah, interesting

He then went through his prices one being hosting $120 a year? My ears perked up

HANG ON

Take that back a step $120, remember I paid $400 for hosting?

Then the web builder mentioned $20 for a domain, why was I charged $100? Go figure.

After hearing this, curiosity got the better of me so I called that mate of a mate and asked what hosting company he was using, would you believe it, it was the same one as the web builder.

I didn’t carry on with the conversation I believe karma has it’s own way.

You know I had no problems paying any money, but to be told “Bull Shit” this is what pissed me right off.

THERE WON’T BE A NEXT TIME

The next time this mate of a mate chases me up for more cash, you know where he can shove his website.

NO WORRIES

You move on and learn.

Head over to Marketing Plan and check it out, if you are ever offered a free website ask what is it exactly you are getting for FREE.

“FREE” in some cases ain’t free at all. What’s your experience of Free. Leave a comment.