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My name is Ian Cliffen and in 1984 I had my first experience with so called computer experts. I was working as a very young manager of a knitting and sweater production plant in Ripley, Derbyshire. The company had invested in a new technology called the desktop computer. They had bought Apple 2e computers. No hard drives just 5 1/4 inch floppy disks with dot matrix printers. The job that they had been bought for was to print batch tickets for the production lines. As the technology was so new, we had a serv
Over the years I have come across many examples of so called experts charging a premium for some kind of wizardry that in truth anyone could master if only pointed in the right direction. Since the very early 90's I have never bought a computer, I have always built my own, saving thousands and having the satisfaction of knowing that I could repair or upgrade as and when I wanted rather then trusting someone who had a vested interest in charging me for their expertise.
I have worked for several companies that have been charged crazy prices for web design, hosting and maintenance services. I have seen companies pay tens of thousands for web sites that basically did nothing, they were what I would call flat - a series of connected pages that had pretty pictures, listed prices but did not save the company any money. These web design experts even charged flat fees for making slight changes to a page that could have been put into the design from day one. A great example was an