Sucky Clients
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- DavidFelt
We have been sedning concept after concept to this client of ours, getting a bit out of hand now, they keep asking for little variations which iI know personally will be awfull.
Anyways I send him an email saying that what he is asking for I have tried to implement and know will look wrong and that the one i sent him is the only one we would be happy to put our name to.
Now hes complaining, anyone else had a client as awkward as this, bear in mind he has a small budget, how do i treat this?
- rasko40
If he's not listening, you bite your tongue, do everything he says, and make sure he understands that every one of these additional changes will be added to the invoice at rate X per hour.
- DavidFelt0
good thinking, as weve been working to a set sum i havent thought of that, ive been thinking all i can do is say, 'thats all your getting for the money you are paying'...
I just really dont want to produce shite for him, but he really doesnt listen, hes trying to tell me what is right and what is wrong, but hes doesnt know... he should just trust me but he is being a nightmate!!!!! argh!
- ********0
Clients are a set of dicks. I hate clients. The can all kiss my arse. Cunts.
*looks at petrol cans.
**plays with zippo.
***looks at petrol cans again.
- nicko0
If he's not listening, you bite your tongue, do everything he says, and make sure he understands that every one of these additional changes will be added to the invoice at rate X per hour.
rasko4
(Aug 15 05, 02:53)Good advice. It's critical that your client knows that any changes he makes will cost more money. If you don't, you'll find yourself in a deep hole.
- ********0
so how can you define when you start charging per hour for additions?
Do you say for example that they get 3 concepts included in the price and that any further ones, even if they are but alterations to existing ones will be charged at hourly rate X??
- ********0
Pretty much.
- v3nt0
sounds like someone i;ve worked for. He asked me for some variations on colours one time so i did three decent sets, but next time we met he wanted to go through the rainbow & i sat there and did for about 2 hours with him going" try the lines with indigo, I like indigo" and then we went with the first set i did 2 weeks before! just charge him extra. + tell him you can keep it cheaper if he had some faith in what he hired you for and have done for 10 years or so!
- ********0
how do you go about that skt?
Do you put it all in a contract and get them to sign it?
Or do you tattoo it across your forehead and visit said client with a couple of "teh lads" to underline your point?
- ********0
I would imagine it would go in the contract. Most of my freelance stuff is done on verbal agreements though, so I have never put one togethor.
When pricing the job you could set over so many hours for initial designs and then give a price ph for amendments. Then its nice and clear.
Failing that just stick the heed in them ken.
- DavidFelt0
you wont beleive this but is actually his wife who is the proiblem, she keeps coming to meetings and taking over, saying 'i wnat that colour' when it is 'that colour', she is a real mithering witch, he would be easier to please i reckon :(
just got a quite nasty email from him stating he doesnt like being told what to have, think weve probably lost this one! ARGH, IDIOTS
- paraselene0
how do you stick the heed into someone? do you need any special equipment or extra brawn?
- v3nt0
don't worry about it. If you did get it and it turned out crap you'll end up attracting more crappy clients/work.
has anyone ever said to a client half way through a job - "go shove ya work"...?
- ********0
a steel plated foreHEED will stand you in good stead...
simply draw back the head as if to sneeze and propel it with force into your opponent's nasal bridge.
- DavidFelt0
ask me in half an hour, i reckon i will have said that then, fookin arse hole that he is
- paraselene0
aye, aye, cap'n!
*practices sticking the heed in an office chair, ken.
- DavidFelt0
if i do stick the heed into him, should i call him ken when hes on his way down?
- paraselene0
i think you're meant to shout:
tha's ma heed! ken, ya hooor?
- chossy0
Can I say hi?
HI :D
he he. how is everyone today. I hope this finds you all well and in good spirits. I'm fully rad today and am ready to face todays challenges with my trademark viz.
- ********0
Can I say hi?
HI :D
he he. how is everyone today. I hope this finds you all well and in good spirits. I'm fully rad today and am ready to soil faces with my trademark jizz.chossy
(Aug 15 05, 03:43)
- chossy0
Oh and what you need to do to the client is to, pop a load of dogs eggs into a long roll and offer it to him as a meat balls sammich, the look on his face will be prize when they tuck into the load of shug dite you fed them. :|