Pay your freelancers...
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- moldero1
I have a firm in SF who owes me $$, and wont return my e-mails because he has to balls. hes lucky its under $1k and I don't really need it.
no names just a hint.
R.G. at MJVE
- mathinc0
I'm currently in a situation where a client has owed me 4k for project that didn't turn out very successful, which definitely puts my client in a tough situation too. However, I was hired to simply assist a main developer. The project was unorganized from the beginning and when the project started to tank I worked around the clock, literally, to save the project. My invoice is now 3 months past due.
I haven't had a single problem with a client in over 3 years until this one. The trick I've found is that you NEED to get a large deposit upfront, unless you have history with the client and know that they're solid. I didn't in this case and it's bit me in the ass. This was a new client for me and initially I thought, because of what the client said, that I'd be working about 20 hours tops. This turned into a 70 hour invoice from one week of work.. so like I said, I literally worked around the clock with 3 consecutive nights of 2 hours of sleep.
So in essence, get a deposit so that the client is already committed to the project. If they refuse to give you a deposit, walk away.
- section_0140
The comment on clients not paying because they don't like the work, wife doesn't get it, etc. is why I'm moving more and more towards development. For one, I can charge more. Second, there isn't any team of account managers or client's idiot spouse's or whatever critiquing the application I just wrote. No one is saying "Can you add a couple more methods to that class" or "Why'd you use that variable?". Does it do what it's supposed to do? Yes. Done.
I love design, but dealing with idiot clients is awful. Luckily, I haven't had any serious payment issues like people here. Plus, since I handle all the ftp admin, I could just shut their site down if I didn't get paid. Or, I could build a secret backdoor login if people get sly and try to change the ftp. I think I will do that from here on out actually.
- You obviously haven't done any work for Disney. But yes, otherwise I completely agree. :)mathinc
- ernexbcn0
I'm on the same fucking boat as you right now, some people owe me 800€ that I needed two months ago so imagine my overall situation. They promised to pay me by oct 30th and I haven't seen the money yet.
I wrote yesterday to that motherfucker asking politely for a real estimate of when he'll finally be able to pay me and all I got was this:
"do you live in Mars, because here in planet Earth there's a worldwide economic crisis and you are not the only one with problems..."
And I won't keep quoting the whole thing because it's maddening, this fucker won't even give me now an estimate on when and how much I'm getting, and I need that money since the end of summer
- as a side note I'm currently jobless with bills piling up like crazyernexbcn
- Man that sucks - If I got that reply from that guy I would march straight down to that office and forcibly take the cashvuc
- 800 euros? surely that qualifies for a simplified civil suit process. If he doesn't want to honor the contract, file and serve.mkuplens
- cosmoo0
Not getting paid?
Solution: http://video.yahoo.com/watch/525…
- MrDinky0
I pay for freelancers
- akrokdesign0
- < NO. DON'T PAY ME IN GUMS.akrokdesign
- nice drop shadow... big spread but low opacity.fuckinglol_prophet
- fibonacci0
PonyBoy, if I employed you, I wouldn't pay you either. I'd keep telling you "check's in the mail" until you finally gave up.
- PonyBoy0
Hi, fibby!
- ukit0
Think of it this way, if you hired yourself, would you pay you?
- ukit0