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Originally Posted by Marcus Aurelius
AMP, consider this:
For this reason, more often than not, it's the flaky designers who cause problems - not customers.
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I'll comment on this, even though it's unrelated to this post at all, as Mike paid upfront as always as he has for years, and unfortunately we had a problem this one time..
Most often, clients who don't pay a deposit are the clients that'll fuck you around the most, while they hold your money as ransom for the million things they're gonna ask you to change that they KNOW are pushing the limits.
Most often, the client is a nobody with no reputation, business name or status that can be tarnished.
If I post that " joe blow " didn't pay me... who gives a fuck really ? Wanna know who gives a fuck? the answer is only me.
Now if Mike posts that MGK fucked up a design, and didn't deliver... wanna know who gives a fuck ? ever potential client that I'll ever have, every client I've ever had, and any designer that's my competition or otherwise.
Fact is in this business as a designer, that more often than not it is the good clients, that are reasonable and patient that will end up getting dicked around while the rude assholes that are impatient and a total pain in the ass get priority, all so we can get a balance on a project that ended up going over budget and heaven forbid you mention cost increases after the fact , or you're " scamming " them then too.
I'm not afraid to say that I dropped the ball on my whole business model, I Marketed myself as cheap and awesome and totally fucked myself.
for years I dealt with clients that were nothing but as unreliable as the " flaky " designers they bitched out on the boards.
there is a reason I've closed TBD, and it's because as a designer you basically deal with more bullshit than you can imagine, you build all these sites to make other folks rich and have to nickle and dime your way through almost every order, and basically you're the dishwasher of the adult industry.
I'd rather work with a small group of people I know and work well with while I'm pursuing new ventures outside adult.
on that note, I gotta get back to work or I'm never gonna get home.
Anyone else that needs to get ahold of me email me , I don't answer ICQ and don't come here often.