Well I have worked with Rob for months now and excuse after excuse he promised me my site coded months ago. A month ago i lost patience with him and told him that i wanted my 150$ refund back, however he was very unwilling to do so and said that he would give it me back but said he would sell my site code, hardly professionial. On the worry that my site code would be sold i decided to give him another chance. He use to be on the internet every day (msn) however he hadnt been on for 3 weeks, and never responded to email. Then he finally came online said he would have it finished for monday at the latest, so now is Friday and yet again nothing!!! After looking through the internet it seems that I am not the first person that he has screwed, basically I am just warning people not to deal with this man
Right this is were the situation is at the moment, hes promised me everything will be completed by Wednesday, he has shown me about 10% of the work and to be fair this is of a very good standard, however I feel that it will not be ready has yet again hes broke ANOTHER promise. Due to contrasting timezones he promised to email me last night with the latest updates, however did not and this morning he was online and said that he has done lots of work but is too tired to uplodad it. I really hope Rob and his compmay sophmedia prove me wrong, but I am not holding my breath.
if you use freelance coders, go through reputable sites like rentacoder.com or elance. $150? No disrespect intended but its not a lot of money really is it so the code could not be worth "that" much either. If you have nothing signed in writing from him like an NDA or similar dont try bossing him around or threatning becasue there is not a whole lot you can do, he basically has you where he needs you.
I have heard bad things about that company name as well, may of been on here even. But i would move on and file a dispute, dont worry about your code it sounds like there is not enough for him to sell.