lets bash on clients
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- jpowell
so i design these christmas cards and ship them out in good faith. i enclose an invoice with a past due web phase + an invoice for the cards...
last week they send me one of the christmas cards i designed... and no check!
maybe i am the moron for sending out the goods with out payment. but seriously...lets here some good stories.
- mikeim0
so you are charging the client for a self-promo xmas card? if so, i would have done the same thing.
they should pay what they owe though.
- Biofreak0
never give goods without agreed upon check clearing in your bank.
EVER! i learned taht the hard way from asshole clients.
i once designed some business cards for a guy and he took the sample to kinkos, told em he designed it and got them to print it. i never saw a dime.
so if you ever run across Paul Adams of Adam's Insurance, please smash his face in and piss on his shiney headed combover sonofabitch motherfucking... sorry. you get my drift though.
- jpowell0
the Christmas card was for their company... not a self-promo.
go any client tales of your own?
- mikeim0
we ask for a deposit and have clients sign a contract with the project specs.
- mikeim0
we have had some clients say the checks in the mail over and over when the due date is long gone.
I have no patience so I will use the term, "unfortunately we will have to seek legal counsel at this time". This usually gets things movin'.
My partner is willing to let things lie, as he believes in not burning bridges.
- k0na_an0k0
i was doing a site for a client once and i was like 'i will post 3 jpg comps of the site for you to choose from.' he's like "no, i want to have them working in html just as they would be live." i'm like alright but that's much more of a pain just for comps.
i ended up having to do the same thing for the inside page design. i post them and i don't hear anything again. 2 weeks go by and i take down the files from my site... i left a bunch of messages and emails. 2 months go by and i happen to go to his site for shits and giggles and the motherfucker had taken out my dummy images and text and had some fuck put their shit in. I almost exploded. To bad the idiot had forgotten he gave me his username and password to his server... oh... and wasn't smart enought to change them. so i went logged on and deleted ALL the files, and logged onto his host and changed the password and username then also changed the contact information to some phony shit so they can't logon or have the new info emailed to them. fuckers. then he had the nerve to call and threaten me. i laughed out loud and told him i had no idea what he was talking about and he must have been hacked or something and then said... well i guess what comes around goes around eh asshole? we haven't spoken since and his site still isn't back up months later. I WIN!
- drqshadow0
We had (have) a client who's been a pain in the ass since day one. Constantly changing what they want, never failing to let us know it's our fault, dragging their feet about payment, etc. Every check we've ever received from them says "Paid under protest" on the 'memo' line.
We thought it would be nice to put "designed under protest" as static text in the footer of their site.
- mikeim0
i would have to say that it probably wasn't a good idea on your part to do all the layouts in html. (unless he was paying extra for that)
- k0na_an0k0
i told him over and over that's not how it works... first jpg then html for time reasons. he then said take the extra time... log your hours however long it takes...
i NEVER imagined he was going to rip the html stuff. i'm usually pretty good about covering my ass but this one threw me for a loop and reminded me that EVERYONE, given the chance, will stab you in the back.
- jpowell0
kona has no mercy.
the good thing with most web projects is that you could take the stuff down. the scary thing would be if they changed all the login stuff.
then what would you do?
- mikeim0
we work closely with a host that we refer some of our clients to. if we tell him a client isn't payin up, he'll takem down for us.
- drqshadow0
We're a step better than that even, mikeim. We do all our own hosting. :)
- Biofreak0
actually, i keep a very nasty nasty little virus on a CD.
ive never had to use it on anyone, but if ever there is a situation... well... public library, false email account, click.
hope i never have to, but i have considered trying it out on a couple of assholes. too much risk to just randomly send it to people i dont like though.
- jpowell0
drqshadow has the monopoly on the deal. sounds like a real nice safety net.
- chach0
i work for a pretty big international broadcast design house and we had a client representing a major broadcast company fly in and discuss the details of the contract and whatever and as he left he gave my supervisor the "prototype" for the look of some on-air gfx...it was a crayon drawing on a 14" piece of newsprint...and he said to ignore the smiley faces, as his daughter had added those.
W_T_F?!?!?!
- jking760
to the front of the class with you!
some classics in here...
- stephen_pc0
truly enlightening.
- jpowell0
i bet dilative, i.e. the guy with the "business/personal question" thread will be in here soon.
- AnimatorX0
Most of my clients kill people.
This really sucks.
- mikeim0
Clients to do list:
1. go to meeting-talk mad $hit.
2. drink coffee-act important
3-64. do more "look important stuff"
65. pay designers lots of money to do something i could have done myself.seriously folks, i love my clients.