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What's your worst experience with Nigerian clients as a developer?

A whole lot

Savagr:
A whole lot

Lol like ?

Scam client looking to set up scam website to attract donations. Opened many fake online profiles to try to add some validation to his scam identity.
Most of the bad experiences are ignorance or selfishness based experiences.

RepoMan007:
Scam client looking to set up scam website to attract donations. Opened many fake online profiles to try to add some validation to his scam identity.
Most of the bad experiences are ignorance or selfishness based experiences.

Wow, thats insane.

Pricing....one wanted a fight and hotel booking website for 90k against the 150k I said

I concur. Pricing is one.

- In a general sense, shifting of target or denying delivery of target.
- Another is listening to half baked opinions from audio developers and expecting one to meet the expectations formed from such opinions.
- Not understanding how hosting or domain naming works. That it needs recurrent payment and does expire.
- Changing of request halfway into project.
- Expecting you to know all back end technology just because they all deliver a HTML CSS and JS frontend.
- Not understanding that within languages, there are frameworks and one man or team cannot work with all frameworks at same level.
- Not wanting to pay for third party plugins
- Trying to be an ignorant middle man who makes all the profit. Example is a school needs a website but instead of the person contacting the developer to link them to the school, they don't and act as middlemen thereby increasing cost on actual client side, reducing incentive on developer side, and creating unnecessary friction between developer and actual client.