Okay, well, this is an issue that should be settled over an instant messenger - though apparently someone wanted it otherwise.

As many of you know, I posted a topic called "xhtml/css coders" the other day. I was looking to hire someone for around $25 to basically teach me how to code a very simple layout I created for this purpose.

VIZ, an old friend, offers me a 'session' to teach me how. I accept. Here's how it started:

[10:57:08 AM] Andy - VI5 says: can we agree I was chosen for the 1 hour help? [10:57:14 AM] Julek says: Yes.

When he said "help", I thought he meant it - so I agreed.
So from there on, he starts rambling on setting up a div and container ID, which he explained pretty well.

About 10 minutes into all of this, he starts pasting snippets of code for me to paste into my document. I ask for him to explain it, but it turns out the code is wrong and is messed up in all browsers. I ask to fix it, he pastes me another piece of code, then another, and another. Finally, after 15 minutes of correcting code, he gets it right. Fifteen minutes ladies and gentelmen, that is how much time it took him to fix an error.

Then the entire conversation pretty much follows the same path.

After one hour of pointless rambling and pasting error-full code, he says:

It's been over an hour now, do you want me to finish it off for an extra $10 and then explain it for another $5?

The entire purpose of hiring him was to LEARN something. I haven't learned anything, and if I was asked to re-create this for the life of my family I could not even have started.

Do you think its correct for me to refuse to pay him?
I offered him the payment only if he goes back and explains, so that I know what he did, the right code... He refused.

So, I refuse to pay. As I said before, my purpose in hiring him was to learn something - I didn't learn anything.