I can hardly begin to describe how disappointed I was with my experience with the Alpha Company, specifically Edward Mellville. I am working to create a charity app for special needs families, and Ed reached out to my Craigslist post detailing the app and the budget. Ed started off as a "nice guy", responding promptly to emails. Sure he said he would work with my budget of $300 and ended up budgeting his time so I had to spend well over twice that much, but I was willing to be flexible to get a good product.
Edward stopped responding promptly to communications and did not tell me when he did not understand things. He then wrote very rude and snippy emails complaining about my lack of communication skills months after the fact. It became clear that Edward was not reading the documents I sent him. I tolerated this, and expressed that I hoped he would promptly address future communication issues in the future.
Edward continued to miss deadlines and ignore phone calls. I asked him for a time frame for the app and he flat out said no. He told me I didn't understand that a timeline was a bad idea. Then he asked me to resend the original documents stating the application's function. I did so, and he became furious. I resent the original email which also had some additional documents. He told me that I was short sided and disorganized for sending additional documents (note: i'm disorganized, yet he lost the documents). I told Edward if he could not treat me respectfully, to send me the code for the app and i'd find a new developer. Edward sent me the "code".
When I presented it to my new developer, he informed me that the code was massively incomplete. Edward had failed to send any source files, object c files, etc. It was useless. I contacted Ed and asked him to send the whole code. He told me it was there and if my app developer couldn't find it, that made him incompetent. My developer assured me it wasn't there and added if there was any possible way it was, it should be a 5 minute phone call explaining how to find it. Edward agreed to help my developer find it....if I paid him $2,000/month. Which is obviously insane. I informed Edward that if he didn't send me the missing files, I would enter disputes with my credit card companies. Edward said he would mail me the missing files through fed ex. I told him no, they should be drop boxed like everything else. He never responded.
Edward is clearly a scam artist. There goes my money. All I can hope to gain from this awful experience is to prevent Ed and the Alpha Company from being able to take advantage of more unsuspecting hopeful developers. The level of rudeness, disrespect, and dishonesty is unlike much I have experienced. He is a liar, a theif and an all around bad guy. Don't let him take advantage of you too.
The Alpha Company, LLC Reviews
I can hardly begin to describe how disappointed I was with my experience with the Alpha Company, specifically Edward Mellville. I am working to create a charity app for special needs families, and Ed reached out to my Craigslist post detailing the app and the budget. Ed started off as a "nice guy", responding promptly to emails. Sure he said he would work with my budget of $300 and ended up budgeting his time so I had to spend well over twice that much, but I was willing to be flexible to get a good product.
Edward stopped responding promptly to communications and did not tell me when he did not understand things. He then wrote very rude and snippy emails complaining about my lack of communication skills months after the fact. It became clear that Edward was not reading the documents I sent him. I tolerated this, and expressed that I hoped he would promptly address future communication issues in the future.
Edward continued to miss deadlines and ignore phone calls. I asked him for a time frame for the app and he flat out said no. He told me I didn't understand that a timeline was a bad idea. Then he asked me to resend the original documents stating the application's function. I did so, and he became furious. I resent the original email which also had some additional documents. He told me that I was short sided and disorganized for sending additional documents (note: i'm disorganized, yet he lost the documents). I told Edward if he could not treat me respectfully, to send me the code for the app and i'd find a new developer. Edward sent me the "code".
When I presented it to my new developer, he informed me that the code was massively incomplete. Edward had failed to send any source files, object c files, etc. It was useless. I contacted Ed and asked him to send the whole code. He told me it was there and if my app developer couldn't find it, that made him incompetent. My developer assured me it wasn't there and added if there was any possible way it was, it should be a 5 minute phone call explaining how to find it. Edward agreed to help my developer find it....if I paid him $2,000/month. Which is obviously insane. I informed Edward that if he didn't send me the missing files, I would enter disputes with my credit card companies. Edward said he would mail me the missing files through fed ex. I told him no, they should be drop boxed like everything else. He never responded.
Edward is clearly a scam artist. There goes my money. All I can hope to gain from this awful experience is to prevent Ed and the Alpha Company from being able to take advantage of more unsuspecting hopeful developers. The level of rudeness, disrespect, and dishonesty is unlike much I have experienced. He is a liar, a theif and an all around bad guy. Don't let him take advantage of you too.