I'm in
this funny position, stuck between the new technology and the way it
was done in the past. Sort of like the day my mother decided to
retire when her company announced they were going to get computers!
My mother was terrified of this new thing called a computer. She was
so scared that she retired a few years earlier then she had wanted
to, just to avoid learning about this new scary thing.
Myself,
I embraced it, even though I had a lot of struggles with them. I was
determined to understand this new thing. I wasn't scared, but I have
a friend who has never owned one and knows absolutely nothing about
the internet. WOW, she is missing so much. She could be in my
Facebook group with all of our childhood friends and find that
keeping in touch has never been easier. Yet she is sort of like my
mother, she likes to hold onto the old way of doing things. She likes
to call you and talk on the phone. Not that that is a bad thing, it's
just that we could be in touch a whole lot more often in the social
network world. But she knows nothing about it.
This
brings me to my point about trust. In this new internet world we are
in, I found that I had to learn how to trust doing business. Yes, it
used to be that you did business primarily with companies in your own
city. You would always generally just walk into a business and do
business in a physical building, with real life people in front of
you.
The
internet changed that. Now I do business with people in many other
states and other countries. And it's super AWESOME. Yet at first I
did not trust them. Because I came from the old way of doing things,
how the hell could I trust a business that I could not physically
walk into?
Well I
trusted someone only one hours drive from me and they ripped me off 3
thousand dollars. They never did one inch of code on the web site I
wanted built. Finally I cut them lose and found another web builder.
ChopdawgStudios, I was interested in them building my website. But they were
like 1,775 miles away. I could not visit them. I could not go and
find them and beat them up if they did not deliver! So we discussed
all the details, by phone and email. I really, really liked them, but
I was terrified. Was it just a scam? Could someone be wanting to rip
me off? Of course that can happen. How do you prove they are
trustworthy? Get references. But those could be set ups themselves,
if it's a scam. Check out legal records. Yeah I did that. Still, I
was super terrified when I sent them a 8 thousand dollar
check. All I could think was, I'm sending 8K to some stranger I met
on the internet. Gulp! This could be an even bigger rip off then the
loser who lives one hour drive from me.
It
wasn't a rip off. It turned out to be a super great business
relationship that I still have today with Chopdawg Studios. I found a
great bunch of really incredible people who deliver what they say
they will do, and more. I could not be happier.
Yet
this is the world we live in now. You could be in some super small
town of two thousand people and doing business with some people in a
city of 19 million people. I think overall that most of us humans are
good. Most people do good business, yeah your going to stumble upon
the scam artist like I have. We can never rid our society of them,
just cut your losses and get away from them as fast as possible, and
even though it seems hard to trust the next guy. If your gut tells
you it's okay, then it probably is.
My gut
did warn me about the scam artist, yet I fell into it. Then my gut
made me worry about the truthful man. Yet I took the chance to trust
again and I'm thankful I did.
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