Monday, December 2, 2013

Give Trust A Chance When Doing Business Long Distance

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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