1. Unless they speak and write good English you may experience language difficulties.
2. Time zone differences may mean you can't call each other during business hours.
3. The designer being located in another country means you cannot meet face to face.
4. Cheaper hourly wages don't necessrily translate into quality work. Language difficulties can result in longer hours and higher design costs.
5. They cannot possibly understand marketing in the USA when living in a foreign country.
6. By hiring design work offshore you are hampering the employment of designers in the USA.
7. Paying for services in other countries can be very difficult, requiring foreign currency exchange and may incure extra banking expenses.
8. Even if "they" provide an escrow account you have no protection if it's located in another country.
9. There is an increased risk of identity theft when transfering funds from your bank to a foreign bank account.
10. Designers from other countries do not always operate with the same morals as designers in the US, i.e., they may copy the content off other websites and you won't know it until your site goes online and is penalized by the search engines. Guess who will be sued if this happens???
11. You'll have to give the designer the password to your hosting account so it should be someone you trust.
12. If you allow them to purchase the domain name for you they may put the domain in their name as the registrant, in which case you will be paying the domain fee, the design costs and hosting for a domain you don't even own. If you fire them you can loose everything and have to pay an exorbitant fee to get the domain back.
13. If they don't perform as they promised you have no recourse because US courts have no jurisdiction in other countries.
14. You may have to hire someone else to fix the website.
The old addage is true in this case:
You Get What You Paid For!
Lori Eldridge
Lori's Web Design
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