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Of course the newbies will get duped, but trust me, they will learn fast...

i just don't agree with that part. I don't think anyone has to lose money to learn. In any business, you are as good as how you treat your new customers. Businesses don't survive on old customers and if they feel happy with what they got. I work for a big organization in electronics and in any business trust is a major consideration. I trusted the people here when i came and thats why i fell for it(And sorry i did actually do a search on this guy. There wasn't a negative rating against him(actually no feedback), he was a pretty old member, and he was a member on some other vbulletin sites as staff(infernotech). Its not that i knowingly gave my money to someone who had a bad rep. Unfortunately, no i realize that even that is not a good criteria to select people here. Some normal people might be pretty good and some so called good coders might not be very good at all(only that there is no way to find who is who unless you hang around here for 6 months+.