Asked for refund in August when project still wasn't done. Asked for my money back and told me I waited too long.

For the record told them I would be leaving a bad review.

The previous reviews for this company must be paid and fake because my experience was terrible. (Two months past telling them I was done and had lost all faith in them.) They have refunded none of my money as of yet. My state attorney general's office is communicating with them now as their satisfaction guaranteed provision is meaningless. Then they'll try to sell you something, pulling you in further and further, and you will be reluctant to quit given what you have already invested. They will do a little work, just enough to convince you progress is being made. I still paid them nearly $10,000 with nothing to show for it after being connected to them for about 8 months. The $1,300 original fee would have been as high as $26,000 had I not pulled the plug. However, as time elapsed I realized their strategy was to pressure me to pay for as many services as possible whether I needed them or not. They assured me they could complete what I needed on the initial live chat for the price agreed upon. Kevin Canfield is a regular contributor to the Star Tribune's books coverage his next review will be of Richard Russo's 'Somebody's Fool.Web Districts may (emphasis on 'may') have the ability to design a site for your small business, but I would recommend looking elsewhere. After all, Silicon Valley has never misled us before, has it? And Olivia's efforts to inspire creativity, including the mandate that staffers must hang out with poets, yield some hilarious scenes.Īs evidence of her limitless potential, Olivia invokes her newest product, designed to confer immortality on those who can afford it. Most decisions are reversible.' - are as ludicrous as Olivia's claim that nature itself suffers in comparison to her corporate campus' manmade biome. Kenosis' slogans - among them 'Speed matters. Hornsby, who lives in Minneapolis, nails Silicon Valley-ese. An entertaining page-turner, 'Sucker' is also a keen send-up of tech industry grandiosity, as well as an homage to 'The Crying of Lot 49.' Fictional places and characters from Thomas Pynchon's great satire are part of Hornsby's California backdrop. 'The hate people carry for me has a Twinkie's shelf life,' he says.Ĭhuck's humility gives him a hint of everyman likability, which underpins a plot that takes numerous twists. It's a tough assignment for a self-described wimp who ceaselessly cites his own shortcomings: bad grades, a flabby torso, a smarmy personality. With trouble on multiple fronts, Chuck must act. It seems clear that Chuck's friend is up to something far worse than Elizabeth Holmes, the real-life Silicon Valley scammer on whom Olivia is based. Might he be responsible for Thane's disappearance?Īt Kenosis, meanwhile, Chuck stumbles across gory evidence, like a secret room stuffed with bags of blood. His disappearance sends his new album, 'Sucker,' barreling up the indie charts. Himself an opportunist, Thane befriends Olivia. If the video goes public, Chuck's punk cred is dead. This places him in countless uncomfortable situations, like when his label's star performer Thane makes a smartphone video of Chuck glad-handing Kenosis donors. Olivia hires Chuck, though there's an unspoken condition: She'll trumpet his moneyed roots to let venture capitalists know she has powerful allies. Luckily, Chuck is friends with Olivia Watts, whose tech company, Kenosis, is peddling a vague sort of wellness. But Grossheart is threatening to slash his contribution unless Chuck gets a conventional job. Grossheart funds Chuck's expensive small business, a punk rock record label. But he seldom says no to Charles Grossheart Sr.'s money or connections. The corporate influence of the old man - Chuck calls him a 'sinister libertarian billionaire' - lands his 30-year-old son a cushy job in Silicon Valley, thus triggering the strange events that fuel this winning comic thriller.Ĭhuck has always downplayed his lineage. His frosty father isn't entirely useless, though. When a friend gives his shoulder an encouraging squeeze, Chuck calls it 'the kind of thing an affectionate father would do, or so I've heard.' Chuck Gross, the hapless narrator of Daniel Hornsby's 'Sucker,' has big-time dad issues.

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