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Originally Posted by msbtterswrth
Also what should I do if I feel I've been stiffed. Say they take bids, then request a mock up, then tell you to change things, and you spend a few hours, then 2 weeks later they decide they don't want it... should've been paid upfront?
I can tell you that you're going to have issues like this a lot. There are going to be deadbeats, people who suddenly lose interest and don't want your work after you've invested time and energy into them, others who can't get their end of their projects together. Sometimes projects are just cancelled. If you're talking about $25 Shop jobs it will be twice as bad. I recall a couple of these already, in one case the work in question was pretty ****ty and IIRC somewhat plagiarized as well.
True story:
I had a referral recently for a band looking for cover art for a CD. I'm talking to the guy, and he sounds legit. The work is doable and the money's right. I wind up talking to one of the other guys to get some photos... and I get out of him that not only do they not have any recordings, they have no drummer, no songs written, and one of them was going to go to court for like 10k in bounced checks. Of course I specified (tactfully) that my fee was to be up front, and that was the last I ever heard from them.
Moral of the story is that if you can't trust the person commissioning the project, or are unwilling to risk someone rejecting your work, then just ask for the money up front and be done with it.
Last edited by Gonzirra; 12-10-2009 at 03:38 PM.