Kevin R.
Fraudsters. Just look at the posts "Under Review"
My wife is a realtor. She hired Design Dok to build and host her website. After paying $799, they began building the site. After several months of emails, phone calls, and arguments, Design Dok never completed the site: broken links, computer code on the pages visible to clients, no pictures, etc. Oddly, withing the first month of paying them, she began receiving calls and emails approximately every month trying to get her to "upgrade" to higher security, extra add-ons, Norton Virus, and all sorts of others odds and ends. The site never was completed, and as this was very time sensitive, she hired a third party programmer from Olympia, WA to finish the site. This programmer was spectacular. Fast forward to Sept 8, and she received another call from Design Dok asking to sign up for another add on, thus asking for more money. She ignored the call. One week later (Sept 13), her site went down. She logged in to the back-end to check it out. Neither my wife nor the third party programmer could get in. The access had been changed. A call to Design Dok and we were told we had been hacked, and our data deleted, and for another $799 and they could fix it and add Norton. Yup. Design Dok was extorting our business. A quick written email to Design Dok threatening to sue them if they did not restore our site and data, and magically, the site was restored within the hour. The third party programmer we hired was able to pull some magic of his own and determine Design Dok had changed the access to administration (only they could get in), and in the programmers own words: "The website was “hacked” from their end using an associated email address with your domain name. DO NOT TRUST THIS COMPANY! Do your research. They have numerous complaints with the BBB, but the BBB cannot do anything, as they are not members. They keep changing states, possibly to avoid ticked- off clients and lawsuits.




