lets bash on clients
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- unknown0
this is a bash / what should i do?
i did some site designs for a lady whose client will remain nameless. vague enough for ya? i always ask for half up front and collect the rest upon delivery of goods. this time though, the timeline was tight and i cranked out the initial layouts and gave her an invoice (with them) for my payment. Haven't heard from her since. And I come to find out, after the fact, that she is real, real, real bad about paying up on time and then paying up in full. She owes our studio something like $5,000 and other people have told similar stories of no moola arriving.
Here is the catch: She is our CEO's wife. Ugh. So you can't exactly strong arm her. To be fair, she has always been real pleasent to me but I want my F*^&ING money. It's the holiday season dammit. I need to buy gifts.
Next time I see her I am going to pleasently confront her. But if I get the "oh don't worry it is on it's way" and then no check deal, how do I handle this "kid gloves" situation? Mob hit?
sorry about crapping on the post,
bB
- dangerboy0
i had this client who cried everytime i gave him an invoice. the fucking guy started CRYING!
- jpowell0
what an odd situation. is your studio run by an outside corporation and CEO? i am not fitting the puzzle together.
i guess just keep bugging her. send her the same email over and over again until you get a response.
- jpowell0
maybe the invoice brought up some bad memories of the past?
why would you cry? seriously
- unknown0
jpowell:
our agency CEO's wife has her own small, outside agency. Her only art director works within our walls. Weird, I know. She comes to visit to check in on her one art director from time to time. So the only time I see her is when she is under her husband's roof. For lack of a better term. Maybe I will get her husband after her. Uh bad idea.
thanks,
bB
- Dilative0
good call jpowell.
I just posted my bad client story as another thread. I should have just joined this one!
- jpowell0
give her a Christmas card with an invoice in it.
happy holidays
- Epictive0
I got hired a while back to make a flash intro for a DESIGN COMPANY! The offer was great for a student, do an intro get 3 grand. I knew the guy (Met him at a web convention), so I didn’t ask for cash up front. I get done with the project, and guess what? He doesn’t return my emails, and I find the intro swf taken from my server and put onto his. But I still had a trick up my sleeve. I had placed a movie clip in the intro that imported a blank swf, just in the case of something like this. I just made a nice little flash file reporting to the viewers of the site that the company was no good, and they stole from me (and they couldn’t even design their own work, also a link to our emails, and my site). I guess a major client they were working with saw it, and backed out, and the firm went under, the owner now works under a friend of mine, and they treat him like shit. Ahhh vengeance is sweet.
-A
- unknown0
Yes, I've been waiting for this one. Once, this client of mine decided to say after contract was signed and a year had gone bye that they wanted to have their flash site redesigned for free. I was wholeheartedly laughing out loud at him. Needless to say he wasn't very happy, he hung up on me, HAA HAA! LOL Then he called me back for the .fra's as he called them, I said I do believe sir you mean .fla's and no your crazy you cannot have them. Pffttt!!
- jpowell0
some good defensive tactics in here. some are straight mean, like bio's virus. i guess we just have to watch out for ourselves at all times.
- unknown0
Several of our clients have called up askign to see prototypes.
Problem was, we'd been waiting on them to give us content for the previous 2-3 months.
That's what happens when client companies don't communicate with themselves.
This has happened more than once. =)