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- Dilative
I've quoted out a few jobs for my girlfriend's uncle. He does mostly Video production but gets a few Flash or Director jobs in now and then. He has not accepted any of my quotes because, I assume, he isn't charging much for the jobs and what I charge would take too much of the money. He usually just goes with students. He once told more how over priced this one firm was. I knew a guy who worked there and I knew they are half the price of the place I work.
Here's the problem. I quoted on a series of animations. knowing they are cheap but keeping in mind I could use the cash I quoted it low enough to get the job, or so I though. I told them the price for the first one and each additional one. They said I can do the first one and give them the files and his video guy will do each additional one from my file.
What should I do?
- mikeim0
tell them there is an additional charge for source files.
- neeko0
youre getting screwed over.
if you really need the money, then you gotta do what you gotta do, but your taking it up the hoop.
if half the plumbers in the world started doing plumbing jobs for free, the price of plumbing would come way down, and eventually it would be tough to make a living as a plumber.
on the other hand, someone's gonna do the job, so, nothing will really change. perhaps if you do the job and do it better than his normal lackeys, then refuse him next time he offers you peanuts.
this is the plague design suffers from.
- neeko0
oh ya.
if i wasnt getting paid adequately in the first place, i'd charge extra for the source files.
- Dilative0
That's a good idea but I think I just might want to make a clean break because it seams like a waste to quote jobs and meet with this guy for a chance that he might accept one of the cheap quotes I give him and won't even consider if I give him a realistic one. I know at work that we don't bother spending time with these type of clients.
- matt240
charge for source files
or
tell them you have to do all of them
- Dilative0
As for "someone is going to do it anyway". Nobody good will be doing it. He will find some student who just started with Flash and he will most likely have problems with it. Plus he'll probably have trouble finding someone who has worked with making QuickTime movies in Flash.
I guess he'll get what he pays for and maybe some kid will get a portfolio piece out of it. I just don't like that it's family. But like you said. It would be a diservice to the design community to do it.
- mikeim0
have you been payed anything yet? If not, [i think] your work is copywriten to you.
Charge'm out da a$$
- Dilative0
I haven't done any work on it yet. It's just that it's hard to turn down any money around the holidays. I guess if I look at it like "If everyone did this work for dirt cheap we'd all be getting paid nothing." so in the intrest of keeping my salary where it is I'll just turn it down.
Now the problem is turning it down without coming across snooty or to good for it.
- snowtrooper0
you charge what you charge. if its no good for him, then too bad for him... it sounds like he will keep trying this on over and over and over otherwise.
your source files are the hidden code those not so clever clogs want to get their hands on, and they should pay for the privelege. you had to invest a lot of YOUR time to learn that shit, so why give it to those goons free of charge.
and i say let them pay peanuts, and end up with monkeys.