Post by ben on Jun 14, 2010 14:00:58 GMT -5
Hello everybody, really sorry to start a new thread and clutter the board up and that, I hope I don't come across as too presumptuous in asking for a bit of advice! I've just won a competition to have a music website personally designed for me, worth £500 usually, by a London-based website design company. They seem legit enough, I've looked up their site and they have a Twitter which they use constantly and a small portfolio. I'm not sure why they would offer this competition but I entered on a whim and I've won.
I don't want to look a gift horse in the mouth, but they've just emailed me and I'm a bit wary, and wanted to ask you musicky people for advice - if this is how things like this are usually done or whatever. They've asked me to send them some of my music, so they can "get that incorporated in the design". They said they had a concept they've been working on for a while that they think would really work for me, even though they know nothing about me and I doubt have listened to my stuff. They finished the email with, "Apologies for the brief email (it was very brief), but if you get the tracks over to me and then we can have a more in depth chat about it in the next couple of days."
Am I being paranoid? Is there actually any way I could lose out from this? Should I just stop worrying and be grateful?!
Sorry if this seems a bit pathetic, but you guys seemed like the ones to ask.
I don't want to look a gift horse in the mouth, but they've just emailed me and I'm a bit wary, and wanted to ask you musicky people for advice - if this is how things like this are usually done or whatever. They've asked me to send them some of my music, so they can "get that incorporated in the design". They said they had a concept they've been working on for a while that they think would really work for me, even though they know nothing about me and I doubt have listened to my stuff. They finished the email with, "Apologies for the brief email (it was very brief), but if you get the tracks over to me and then we can have a more in depth chat about it in the next couple of days."
Am I being paranoid? Is there actually any way I could lose out from this? Should I just stop worrying and be grateful?!
Sorry if this seems a bit pathetic, but you guys seemed like the ones to ask.
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I basically asked them to show me what they had so far before I sent things and they did and although it's not what I would have come up with if I'd done it myself, it's cool and looks really pro and it's got some good "functionality" and it's all quite legit, so I sent them some songs and they put them up. So yeah I think I was being a bit paranoid but as you say, best to be wary. They obviously weren't gonna make money out of the crud that I'm producing but it was just a bit weird, you know...
