God bless you! In most cases, a Nigerian developer will not bail out if you don't pay him what the project is worth.

Someone offered me a contract last year for a Polytechnic Android app. He told me it was a 'demo' and he wanted to see my performance to know if I'm capable before we sign the main contact (worth 6 million), but that he would pay me for the 'demo' first once I complete it.

I accepted because it was a senior developer in my company who was his friend that recommended me to him and he was a big shot judging by appearance and position, and I wanted to make an impression so I could be given the main contract which depended on the demo.

I finished the so-called demo in record time, but He hasn't paid till date. Last two months he called my boss to convince me to go for the presentation of that demo because I refused since I hadn't been paid. But I went cos my boss assured me that the guy would pay after that, and I knew they would need a second presentation for the school to accept the work.

It was at that first presentation that I confirmed my suspicion - that it wasn't a demo after all! It was an ongoing contract with the polytechnic (a huge one - probably worth >= 80 million). It was in it's preliminary stage.

I laughed because he thought he was smart, but he forgot that a demo has expiry date.

Long story short, he knew he couldn't convince me to go for the second presentation, and my boss refused to help him convince me to go for it again due to his unwillingness to keep to his promises.

So he decided to go for the second presentation himself without the software and equipments(which I held on to as security). The polytechnic saw it as a breach and cancelled the contract.

He had already spent 15million to ensure he was awarded the contract but lost everything because of greed.

Now tell me, he didn't get me to sign an NDA, and the idea is a huge one. Secondly, I still haven't been paid for it. What am I supposed to do with the idea?

Check many people who complain about Nigerian devs stealing their ideas or bailing out of project's claims very well. In most cases it's usually because they want to eat their cake and have it.

TheSTreetman:


Nigeria PayPal is useless.. It doesn't receive money.. Open Lesotho or Iceland PayPal if you really wanna link PayPal. Although i won't advise you to use PayPal because they will hammer your account if they see Huge transactions assuming you sold a Domain for 3k.

Open Payoner and link to the BB account.

Pls, I've tried opening the Iceland Paypal account but I'm stuck at the "Post Code" field. It doesn't see any Nigerian postcode as valid. Should I enter that of Iceland(i.e 110)?

I have a good number of final year project materials (over 400) from different fields. If anyone needs this, you can send me a mail on denazirite@gmail.com, or chat me up on 08138564840.

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