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Some are simply cheap and want to get away with anything.
In my experience the majority are simply mistaken about what we do, how we do it and what it costs. A lot of people have dealt with designers, the sad things is that those designers are awful awful freelancers that use system fonts and suck so much or aren't seriously trained. Coz of this people assume we work in the same way as this people.
These are the clients that were introduced to magical world of working with a designer, by paying peanuts to some untalented and careless designer and when it's time for them to grow with a better designer they expect for this better designer to say yes to everything and charge nothing for the work. These are the clients that will never understand what it takes to do good design. They could bring you a gorgeous Nike piece and say they want something similar for 1000 bucks and when you try to explain that the Nike piece didn't cost 1000 dollars but like 30 times more for only the design + the good quality offset and good paper stock, not to mentioned the text is professionally written, they won't understand. They will say it's the same... a piece of paper with pretty images......and that it can't be that hard for you to make it as memorable and recognizable for their tiny business.So avoid these clients. If you are able to not get to personal or attached to the work... and if you are well aware that it is a job and you are doing it to pay rent... then go ahead and do it. ugly jobs pay the bills too. Of course if the budget doesn't give you realistic hours for production then it makes no sense at all for you to take the job.