Softrino SCAM software development AVOID!!! LISBON Internet

I received an email advertisement from this company back in January. That they have to resort to SPAM should have been my first clue that they were a scam. But they had a very slick web site and when I contacted them through their site they seemed to be very professional.

I had them bid on development for an iPhone app project. It was a good but fair price for programmers in Europe, so my company decided to go with them.

Worst mistake of my career.

They didn't meet a single promise or deadline in their contract. They suckered us into additional payments due to "unforseen circumstances." The app they delivered does not work and cannot currently pass Apple's app store review. It's useless to us.

They did...after several threats...provide the source code (which was promised in the contract). Frustrated, we hired a local developer (we're in the U.S.) who could meet in person. After a week reviewing the source code provided to us by Softrino, he recommended that we literally trash it and start from scratch. I can't begin to describe how painful the meeting was. He had countless examples of the problems with their code. The code organization looked like trash even to a non-programmer. They must have out sourced our project to a firm in the slums of India or China.

Management would like to sue them, but it looks like we won't be able to due to international barriers. Or rather we could, but the costs would be prohibitive with no guarantee of recovery. While investigating Softrino for a lawsuit, we discovered that many of the clients they list on their web site were never actually their clients.

Scam artists up and down. Avoid at all costs. The only reason I still have my job after recommending these jerk offs is because my boss agreed their intitial presentation was slick as snot.