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- Point5
so, I just got off the phone with this guy I'm doing a logo for. I'm doing it fucking dirt cheap (basically for free) since he's a friend of a friend/client of mine.
Here's the lowdown:
• Need logo for company
• "Our company does [this]"
• Need it ASAPSo I bang out a comp sheet of 6 different logos last night at like 1am. A couple of really strong logos on there, and the others pretty plain.
Client response today is:
"Ummm, yeah, I got the logos and fwd'd them to my business partners... uh, I looked at em... they seem kind of basic... is that because of the price range we're working with?... My business partner's 15 year old daughter, she goes to one of those magnet schools, she's a really talented artist. We might have her sketch something up, and then you could build a logo off of that."MOTHER-FUCKER...
- PonyBoy0
Enter response:
Point...
... stop the project....
... stop it now - don't do anymore on it - you'll hate every moment of it and chances are you're going to end up having a 'fight' etc that wasn't necessary...
... and that fight will probably be over money...
... oh man - stop right now, though... they don't respect what you're doing for them...
STOP.
cut your losses and go have a beer.
- honest0
fuck man, don't even bother answering that guy. tell him not to waste your time
- digitalswarm0
P5, you should create a website in the vein of:
- deletedscene0
everyone has a 'friend that can do something u can work on", i had this hapen to me and i ended up spending hours making something that was a piece of shit that one of the directors sons had sketched out!!! stay away from them!!!!!!
- digitalswarm0
"Logos drawn by the client's children, and then rendered by jaded pro designers."
- neue75_bold0
I always think when I open threads with titles like 'bastard' that it's gonna be about me...but it's that ego-centric attitude that garners the term sometimes...
- Point50
Seriously, I think you guys are right. I need to cut my losses...
*sigh
I want to punch him and that 15 year old right now.
and neue, you are a bastard. Feel better?
- brooke0
Let him have his shitty logo. What a poopface.
- digilee0
and keep an eye on him to make sure he doesn't use anything you've already sent.
And when he comes back TREBLE your price.
- MIJA0
A friend/client wouldn't insult you like that. They would appreciate how you are helping them out.
Obviously not a friend and definitely shouldn't be a client.
- deletedscene0
and keep an eye on him to make sure he doesn't use anything you've already sent.
And when he comes back TREBLE your price.
wise words. invoice him now for what u have done so far. make him suffer for his arrogance!!!
- neue75_bold0
I'd see what this kid can do. In the least, post it up here for a crit and a laugh...we'll rip 'er a new one...
- lherb0
I'm doing it fucking dirt cheap (basically for free) since he's a friend of a friend/client of mine.
Point5
(Jul 10 06, 14:49)Get out now but tread carefully, it's not worth losing the other client over. That is as long as they are a good client/friend.
- deletedscene0
the best idea i have heard all day, mail me if u get a link to that.
- lherb0
I'd see what this kid can do. In the least, post it up here for a crit and a laugh...we'll rip 'er a new one...
neue75_bold
(Jul 10 06, 15:18)That could be fun too though...
:-)
- deletedscene0
I'd see what this kid can do. In the least, post it up here for a crit and a laugh...we'll rip 'er a new one...
neue75_bold
(Jul 10 06, 15:18)i am laughin already, even if its real good it will be funny!!!!! mail me a link when it or if it is posted PLEEAASEE!
- Point50
HAHAHA! Don't think that didn't cross my mind that this fucking pubescent could be a friggn art deity. I will laugh soooooooo hard if that's the case, the I will STFU, collect my $2 and become invisible.
- Point50
I will definitely update if the kid gets involved in this!
- deletedscene0
i might get my 15 year old cousin to design me a new logo
- spendogg0
you should tell him that is how you prefer to work and is curious if the 15 year old wants to freelance.