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Originally Posted by spazlabz
first thing that pops into my mind when I hear percent is 'I don't have money to pay you', I would say that you should offer them a salary that they can take or leave.
spaz
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well, this is true in most cases, however, if the parts already agreed to it, then there's nothing to say about.
Personally, in these hard times, percentage alone is a risk, unless you're really desperate or you need something to prove or you're extremely confident, you're risking building or maintaining the "status quo" of a site for free. I think the fair way should be some (little yet decent) fixed sum and then a percentage based on goals. After all, why should anyone work for free? Furthermore, unfair deals are what cause those deals going into trainwreck mode, at some point the part getting the loss will start trying to get some money somehow, or stop working, or.... (I won't give any ideas, you'll get the point)
On a side note, I offered something like this a few months ago, 100% performance based, as long as the site had some conditions (mainly size of program and exclusive content). 7 programs contacted me, they all wanted me to spill the beans, so I told them I had no problem with that as long as they signed a NDA. Never heard again of 6 of those programs, they just wanted me to provide them a plan to enhance their programs for free, not even percentage, so there's everything on both sides, and people is quite desperate nowadays
