About a year ago (i was 17) i singed a contract with a business to build a website for them. The contract just had what the amount was for( labor and to purchase a shopping cart program). I just called them today and told them that I was not going to be able to complete the website (i am 18 now). They want to keep the photos I took for the site(4 hours of work) and they had some computer problems that I fixed for them (they said to just add it to the website fee). Can i just refund the total amount that they paid minus the shopping cart software and the labor for the photos and the computer repair?

Nick



Here is the contract:


Design website with the following pages:
Home Page
Location
About The Store
Hours
In-Store Specials Design store front with approximately 40 products and 10 gift baskets. Setup online shopping cart on server with SSL Certificate for security.

Setup merchant account to allow credit card processing.

SalesCart Online Shopping Cart Software.

All shopping cart work will be billed at $40.00/hr.
Extra pages will be billed at $100.00/page.






$500.00



Est. 20 Hours

$800.00


$399.00





TOTAL $1699.00

Half of the website design and the shopping cart software are to be paid before the start of the website. The remainder of the website fee is to be paid after the completion of the website.



Initial Payment: $1049.00 – Due 5/24/2005 Please mail back the signed contract with the initial payment to start the design of the website.

Completion Payment: $650.00

Why did you fee the need to post this multiple times in different areas of the forums?

I accidently put it the the wrong one so i just re-posted it in the right one

Can i just refund the total amount that they paid minus the shopping cart software and the labor for the photos and the computer repair?You "can" do whatever you can work out with them. Your suggestion seems fair, but it's really something you have to negotiate with them -- as long as the contract didn't specify any remedy for this kind of thing.

About a year ago

first...sounds totally fair to me, it is what i would do as long as there is nothing in the contract saying i can't do it like that like JayC said

second...it's taken you a YEAR to NOT finish this website?