DesignQuote

The idea of designquote is good but just like other platforms its open and obviously used by lots of scams that pretend to know what they are doing, wheel you in to pay them half and then not deliver you anything you could possibly use. My experience was terrible and i would not recommend anybody to use this platform since there is no rating for the participating so-called designers. And after the fact designquote does not care about your satisfaction. I got burned i would never use them again.

I've been using DesignQuote on and off for a little over 6 months. I purchase leads for my business: coactivated.com when I don't have the time to develop my own campaign for fresh leads.

It's difficult to lay blame on the staff at DesignQuote.net for the nature of pitching to people who are not investing anything to request a quote. Even if you gather leads on your own, you're going to get that more often than you'd want.

So far my experience with them has included a few bad eggs and a few good ones too. I feel like they're doing their best to weed out the bad eggs and I can see why they're unwilling to offer refunds, though I think there should be more of a commitment on the client's end.

This is a "participate at your own risk" service, I would suggest that anyone looks to find Design Quote leads first be sure they have a solid, tested, proposal process. In other words, don't purchase from them if your process includes spending hours on a proposal before you speak directly to the client.

I see quite a few of negative reviews on here about designquote.net I would like to clear the air for both design firms and clients. First, I have never had any problems with designquote.net's customer service. I have been issued refund when appropriate and they always seem to be very respectful and helpful. As for the comments about leads that are not of good quality. Not all leads through designquote.net are perfect, but the majority of the leads seem to be very good. YOU have the right to pick and choose which leads you want to pursue and I can within the first 10 seconds of reading a lead description whether it is a serious lead or not. I typically only purchase leads from within the USA, and based on the lead description you can tell how much effort and thought the potential client has put into the write-up. I typically only choose to purchase leads which seem to be from forward thinking prospects that are serious about getting quality work from a quality vendor. With this in mind, we think designquote.net does a great job connecting quality leads with quality vendors. Not every lead is going to be a serious potential client, and not every web designer or development firm on designquote.net produces top quality. Just as design firms must choose the leads they wish to purchase, the potential client that receives several different proposals must choose the designer or design firm that they feel is going to deliver the best results.

I had a business idea and wanted to get a website created and have some software designed and i found this website on google and it looked as if i could get some good quotes on my project so i decided to try it, i had many bids and hired the winning bidder to do my project.

Then things got ugly, the guy who i hired from this site took my $2300. 00 and never gave me anything for my money, and if thats not bad enough he stole all my business ideas and opened up a business using even my domain names.

When i contacted www.designquote.net and told them what happen they never even bothered to respond back, i tried calling them sending them emails and never once did i get a responce.

In conclusion DO NOT use www.designquote.com the people who bid the projects are crooks, since i have been ripped off 3 other people using the same web guy through design quote have been ripped off as well, it seems they use this designquote website as a front to swindle people out of there hard earned money.

ADVISE - Do not pay anyone through paypal for ANY webdesign work, paypal.com will not guarantee this as they deem it a intangible item, these people are getting away with fraud stay far away.

I have used DQ and spent a few hundred dollars to buy their BOGUS leads hoping to find a decent customer one day. Well, a few years back I did find a delightful client whom I worked with and she was very happy with our work. Other than that, I have never been able to gain a single client through DQ's bogus leads.
Either the customer will never reply after acknowledging the intent-to-bid or they will not reply to the professionally written proposal sent to them or they will close projects abruptly, or they will not answer their phones or all of the above. But, after spending several hundred dollars hoping to land one good job, I have not gained anything but loss. Thus, I write this to help all the other professional fellow designers and developers to help them from experiencing this type of a loss in their future.
I have noticed that after my negative review of DQ, at least 6 new reviews have been added, ironically, all with perfect 5 stars(wink). Upon reading them, I've felt that they were less than perfectly honest so that's why I am adding the following to my review:
The customer service at DQ is almost non-existent, they have never answered any of my calls and or returned my calls since the last time I have tried to contact them. I have also sent them requests for a legitimate refund but that was also completely ignored. I would understand their refusal to issue the refund based on one of their policies that they have not had posted(wink again) but not replying to my emails right before or after I quit using them wasn't reasonable.
If this type of a service deserves 5 stars then I guess I am not from this era :)