wolfgrl

This question is addressed to Absalom and Rejuvinet.com- What is it about FREE templates do you guys not understand?

Rejuvinet you have even posted an excerpt from our website which clearly states that the templates themselves are FREE. The actual charge was for the work that was being done to modify the template to suit the client's needs and to add content. Of course we're going to charge for doing the work to make the modifications. I mean come on guys, this is becoming a little ridiculous. At no time have we ever charged anyone for any templates that were not designed by our company. So Rejuvinet-you feel as though you are entitled to a percentage of the money that we would make from doing the work to modify the template and add content? Ridiculous. For submitting your templates to the Open Source community you seem to be very motivated by receiving compensation for what you supposedly gave for free.


Rejuvinet in your e-mail to us you stated:

Each template I make personally takes a minimum EIGHT HOURS. On average it's about 12-14 hours, meaning if I'm lucky I'll make an average of $4 an hour, maybe $5... The template you snagged that's attributed to me - that one took 16 hours and then some, and that was over a year ago. Let's average out a minimum wage of say $6 an hour (split the difference between Canadian and US rates) and you're stealing $96 every time you charge your $300 or so for that template.

That's very interesting that you claim you make $4 maybe $5 an hour, but yet on your website you are charging $99.99 for each template to be sold to up to 10 people (which compared to our prices yours seems to be a little excessive). I would say you're making a little more than $4 or $5 per hour at those prices. And again the $300 is NOT for the template design. It is for the work to make modifications. Also, if you took the time to read through the posts we have made throughout this thread you would have seen where we have stated that if there is someone who does not wish to have there template offered on our site then all they need to do is just let us know and we'd be happy to remove it. You're obviously just looking for a battle.

We can only explain it to you in so many different ways. FREE TEMPLATE means FREE TEMPLATE.

And of course as we have also stated since we began offering the templates to our clients we have not had any clients who requested one of the pre-designed templates. They have all preferred to have a custom designed template to give their business site a unique look.

So, this is really a pointless arguement. At no time have we ever charged for an Open Source template. We have seen no market for the Open Source templates with our client base thus far.

Rejuvinet-we are a company that is client focused. Our goal is to provide our clients with quality web designs at reasonable prices. We also take hosting our clients' sites-personal or business-very seriously. We are very security-minded and since beginning our business have had very little server downtime (this has been for upgrades). So, before you try to drag our company name through the mud maybe you should rather focus your time and energy on your own business.

-wolfgrl