Client wont pay.
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I know it doesn't ease the pain of being ripped off. It seems like this type of thing regardless of the quality of work, etc happens to the best of us. My best advice is to avoid working with clients who up front are squirmish about money. It is a good sign that they are going to either not pay, and if they do, they will make sure they get every penny worth of your time out of the project. In addition, if a client acts as if the money they are spending on this project is the sum of their marketing budget, it is a good sign to avoid it. Reason being, they will have grandious expectations that this particular project will satisfy their every need since they are investing 100% of that budget on it, even if is a small sum of money.
Sometimes we just need to cut our loses and learn from these moments. The best thing you can do is to be upfront with the client and explain how much time you have invested into the project and how much you have sacrificed. If they do not have the ethics to pay you back, karma seems to always have a way of working it's way back to those individuals.