Logo pricing
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- seven8nine100
help him, he is not making any money out of it
- monospaced0
Help your bro out. Fuck.
- isakosmo0
why not, just dont spend too much time on it
- Jimbo820
Craighooper - I understand your point but you've got to draw a line somewhere, what if it was your own mother who doesn't have a clue, and she wanted a logo for her flower shop. Would you charge her full rate?
This guy is not earning anything from this company, it's purely fictional, and he wants a logo so it will look better when he submits his coursework. Yet he is a friend of a friend, and wants something knocked up, the £100 is not a real valuation of the work, I see it more of a gesture that he appreciates I am doing him a favour.
- Policy is policy—haven't we all done enough "jobs for friends"? We have, and we're donecraighooper
- Spanna0
do it
- craighooper0
Fuck these people w/ these ridiculous budgets—regardless if it is for a school project or not. Communication design services and intellectual property cost money—bottom line.
We get constant requests for quotes from clueless wonders, all wanting full-featured web properties for $1200. It happens all the time. I've grown so tired of these time-wasters, that I refuse to even think about drafting a proposal or project estimate. When I smell a rotting corpse, I reply w/ some rather blunt wording about realistic associated costs—I've yet to be proven wrong on this one. Those sniffing around asking questions like "how much for a website", or "what would it cost to have a logo designed for my 2-man company" are wasting everyone's time—including their own.
Problem is, there are so many desperate designers out there willing to step-right-up and provide their under-valued services for this type of shit. That's why we all hear: "well, the last designer we hired built us a website for $675".
Time to end this rubbish.
- chossy0
Do a couple of hours of good work on it, £100 pounds is worth a couple of hours worth of work.
- MSTRPLN0
Ask him for a "friend deal" on a house in exchange
- Jimbo820
He's a mate of a mate, gonna do it, but charge him the 100, mainly for my time. And do something I want to do, then I might actually be happy with the outcome.
Cheers all
- eating_tv0
Jesus would do it for free, that's why they crucified the sucker because he was undercutting all business. It's a free market nowadays though.
- thebottlerocket0
He's a mate, I would do it for free.
- OhYeah0
Simple, buy an istock vector image, add a nice type face and bam!
- brandelec0
easy money mayn, i agree with most people here. uni project, 1 design, no changes
- penelopes0
send me the information, ill make it, take 90 and you can have ten
- its_only_me0
Yeah just do it but dont let him arse you around.
one logo...with no changes and he can take it or leave it.
- Iggyboo0
In these tough times I have started seeing this sort of thing happening alot. People try to lower your rates. Just don't agree to it. It doesn't help you, or the next guy or that guy's friends. Designers need to educate clients it costs money to do this stuff, it costs times, and frankly your services are in demand don't give the goods away for cheap unless you feel like it's worth that much.
But that being said I been in your shoes more than once in the past 3 months and I said no. Good luck.
- MrMackem0
Just do it.
Couple of hours work? £100.
Not a real client - easy money.
- rafalski0
Still dabbling?..
ready..steady.. autokern init !!!
- Jimbo820
You're right, as long as he know's it's a favour then the £100 is just him showing some appreciation. Plus, if he ever does get this company up and running then he's likely to come to me for some proper work. I can knock up a spanking logo in 5 minutes, charge him £100, thats £1200 an hour... Mum, I've finally made it.