that ancient printer...that ancient customer
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Charles256
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that ancient printer...that ancient customer
Okay. So the deal is in order to bring him a system that I'm writing in PHP he's going to have to get a new printer. why? because his printer won't work under windows. no way, no how. too damn old. solution? buy a new printer. problem is their 255 bucks a pop, it's a dot matrix printer that runs unde3r every damn OS known to man.. client doesn't want to spend the money..if he doesn't I can't complete the project. I live in the U.S., would I have to give a refund? or is this his damn fault?
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guess I'm just too nice a guy at heart. Okay. Thanks for the analogy. I told him it had to run on windows. he should have mentioned the printer didn't work with windows. he didn't. i found out. his fault.got it. good.no refund.either he upgrades or he's otu 200 bucks and still has to find a solution to his problem..hope he doesn't do that.i will feel bad about it
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If the contact called for you writing the app to do what was asked for, then you did your part. If what you asked for requires additonal equipment, software, code or other stuff, that is on the client to worry about. If you went out and bought hardware that required a particular piece of software to run, you;d have to worry about getting that yourself. Seems to be a similar case.
NOTE I know that analogy was bad, but I couldn't think of a better example.
NOTE I know that analogy was bad, but I couldn't think of a better example.
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