Yoram Conradt - Douche Bag Who Ripped Off My Work

Why do I call Yoram Conradt of Yoram Conradt Photography, Margaret River, Yallingup, Dunsborough a Douche bag you ask?

Well the guy came to me to design him a website. I had previously built him a website well below cost as a favour to a young photographer, just starting out in the business. But Yoram decided to ignore advice and insisted upon software which was not the best and made it difficult to manage his site. I explained this to him, but he insisted on the choice he had made. I went ahead and built it to his specifications and using the software he wanted and even hosted the site for about 50% of retail price. Needless to say, within months there were problems because he could not update photos as he wished. The website worked fine but he was unable to update it because he had no interest in learning how to use FTP. I informed him at the time that this was because he went against my advice and insited on using software that was not user friendly and that I would not be performing this task in my time.

Over the course of the next couple of years, every time I saw Yoram, he bugged me and hassled me, promising that he was going to get me some photos so I could 'fix' his website. Each time I told him that when he was ready to sit down and do the job properly, to book some time with me and I'd build him a new site with the appropriate software and do it cheap to help him out. But like the tyre kicking time waster he is, Yoram never showed, even on times I put aside time to meet him, he was just all words and no action, costing me lost time and effort while I researched solutions for him.

Suddenly in 2010, Yoram Conradt decided it was time to act and promised me he'd come through with a new photographic portfolio from weddings he'd photographed. He promised that this time he would listen to advice and allow me to do my job properly. But all of a sudden the job was urgent, he needed it asap after fucking me around and getting in my face every time he saw me out in social settings. So I put aside other work and squeezed him in my already busy day. The photos he gave me needed cropping, resizing and were not suitable in their raw state for internet display. So I spent a day doing this manually. No batch processing, I did each one manually to try to get the best result for him.

Well surprise, surprise, Yoram Conradt was not interested in listening to advice. He insisted upon photos with file sizes that were far too large for internet display, he insisted upon a colour scheme that was of the level of a year eight art student and he wasted my time as I was forced to do and redo work because things would not work (despite me telling him this many times before I did the work). In the end, after he annoyed me one step too far, I told him to go elsewhere to have his website done. I'd had enough and did not want to do any further work for him.

So what did the Douche Bag do - he found someone to copy (ie - use a program to siphon the website from my development server) the work I'd done, and upload that to another web server. he totally ripped off my artwork and my design concept. He had not paid a single cent for my time and effort and then takes the work I've done to save money with his new designer. To make matters worse, the guy he had make the site used photogallery software similar to the type I initially advised Yoram Conradt to use, but he thought it was too boring and plain for his tastes!!

If you are thinking of employing Yoram Conradt Photography for your wedding in Dunsborough or Margaret River, please remember, this is the kind of douche bag who rips off people's work and passes it off as their own. What a tremendous human being, he ripped of someone who was trying to do him a favour and produce a website well below cost. I wouldn't want this slime ball within 10 kms of my wedding, it would make me sick so see his smirking mug anywhere near any special occasion.

That's why I call Yoram Conradt of Yoram Conradt Photography a douche bag.