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well, if suicide is painless...
damnit, clients are not.
just came out of a meeting which was supposed to last 30 minutes and ended up lasting 2 and a half hours!
i carefully worked out their renewed identity, the planning for all offline communication, the strategy for online communication: 1 website, 2 extranets, CMS etc.
and everything went PERFECT!
until... the last 30 minutes..
"can't we just use Arial? We like it, and everyone uses it anyway"
i told them it is a screenfont and would not fit in their print material as part of their unique identity..they also thought the typeface i offered them was supposed to be free.. ( i was about to say they just fall out of the sky like that...sure).
whilst holding myself from not attacking one of them physically...
then..
we think that is quite an amount of money in the offer.. you see, we've been informing at other companies (yes, teh ones i know very well here, the ones who steal cheap uncustomized readymade templates and use illegal copies of stockphotos and typefaces!!) ..and they seemed to end up with a much lower price.
Because I know these people personally I have never had the feeling to turn them in..but I feel so fucked up and angry about this whole false competition thing.. that i am about to call photodisc and others to say.."hey, have you seen this..?"
but then i won't.
when will clients realize...
>:((
- rasko40
"these are not the droids you are looking for"
- jevad0
i feel your pain
- save0
I can totally relate. Your not on your own...
- mirola0
my skin is crawling just reading it
- mrdobolina0
haha rasko!
Also, the other day I had a client send me an image to add to a form I was working on for them. It was an image of a man from the Quicken Web site. WTF.
- vespa0
there are punching bags in every corner at my work and i'm sure it helps
- jevad0
not sure the account managers at bbci will like being referred to as 'punchbags' kim...
- solmo0
Clients, clients, Nice clients
Clients, clients, Nice clientsWheeehaa, Wheeehaa, Do it again. Cause its fun fun fun. Clients are fuuuuun!
(on the windsurfing tune) Sing all after me!
- rasp0
call photodisc, fuck em
- shutdown0
shop 'em!
- monkeyshine0
What is it about that last half hour of meetings? Dare we call it a syndrome?
- r_gaberz0
ah those ugly fucks
bye the way... could you post some links to projects you have done 4cy?
I have always been curious about your work.
- r_gaberz0
bump
- paulrand0
it's enough to make you get on the H
- jox0
Damn man, that sucks major ass rim!
When will clients start to appreciate a lot of preparation, a smooth proposal with great stuff and a professional attitude & business over some kids with bookmarked stock photo sites and cracked copies of PS? Cheapskates!
But don't worry. They'll come back to you when they realise that the cheap kids gave the printer low-res jpgs and all of their material is blurry and aligned like their mothers' nipples... Oh yeah, I've been there before.
NO Wait - I mean that I've been in a *situation where I've competed with cheap kids* before - I don't know anything about your clients' mothers nipples!!!
Dammit, even I don't understand how my posts turn out sometimes.
- plamenski0
You love to have them, you hate to deal with them.