Free work
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The thing that solidified my stance on this, was going to craigslist trying to find extra freelance stuff. You have (almost) nothing but people/businesses trying to exploit designers and get free work while dangling the carrot of "gaining experience" or "free advertising", bunch of bullshit. I have to think that the reason there are so many of these posts on craigslist and elsewhere is because at some point, these folks have gotten free work out of somebody. I even had a few people tell me (after multiple emails and hours of my time) that they "couldn't pay me up front, but once the business takes off it's going to be huge" blah blah blah....what if they fail miserably? Then all the work I did end's up in some digital trash can, and I never get paid, sweet.
If you were doing some type of charity work, cool. But the work that you are talking about above, there is no reason why they can't pay you. I think the truth is that they don't WANT to pay you.