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Why does this have to be about deigners? This same ethic could apply to programmers, coders, SEO, any consultant, anything.

This 50/50 thing seems acceptable. Personally I go with what my builder did me for - 3rd on "signature", 3rd midway, and 3rd on completion. Half up front is (imo) too much for the client if they don't know the person doing the work.
It's been so long I did some major work for someone I don't know I don't even have any rules now!! But, yeh, 1/3:1/3:1/3 would be it for anything >€2k and someone I didn't know/trust.

Oh, and there was a comment way back in the thread on timely invoices.... yeah, that's important and luckily the one time I had 3 invoices for 3 diff clients that were sitting there waiting to get invoiced (past stuff ranging from 3-5 months) when i sent them out (with apology for delay), they all got paid within 48 hours. Now I'm sure, each of those 3 guys were like "fucking hell, where did this come from", but they all paid up without grief. BF was one of those 3 ;)

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