Retainer clients
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- d_rek0
@bmanceill,
What you're talking about is not so much retainer as it is an incremental payment plan. It's not uncommon for service industries to offer a tiered or flexible approach to pricing to make the offering more lucrative for a client (ie: they don't have to pay lump sums all at once.)
Most retainer agreements i've dealt were more situated towards maintenance of a thing than mid-to-large sized project work. Project work, especially on the level of developing an entire website, should be handled as such and in my experience not treated or encapsulated by a retainer agreement. The cons tOki mentioned would quickly become self-evident in this situation.
As for your question about non-payment... well, if you're working on retainer you probably know a thing or two about setting up legally binding contracts.
IP transfer is a completely different subject, however. And you should really read up on what it means as an author of original works of art to transfer IP to someone.