Bad client stories anyone?
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- ptouch718
Please rag here:
- Amicus0
wow. where do I start?
How about the client that bought two bottles of wine into the office and watched me do text changes on an Annual Report while finishing them both... bastard!
- airey0
damn client went under recently. took my 3k with them. 34 people lost their jobs also but i didn't get my money!
- Meeklo0
we all know it..
everything was going swimmingly, till the wife decided she was a designer.- oh yeah. classic fail that one.airey
- same sitch sparked the thread!
ptouch718 - oh yeah ive had that one a couple of timeserikjonsson
- Everybody is a closet designer! Even the guy that does sales here thinks he is creative...MSL
- mcLeod0
client on the phone during a creative review of a flash product demo:
"can we have some sounds when it animates in? like 'dooouuuuuuuche'."I almost flipped my shit out loud.
- blaw0
Put this on the home page.
Put this on the home page.
Put this on the home page.
Put this on the home page.
And this.
And this.
And this.- omg! That's my favoritesection_014
- Yes, put ALL the site's content on the home page.ETM
- janne760
i recently fired a client who thought they were all the rage.
art collection thing. i worked harder, did more than they expected apparently. i touched up their terrible photo's, kept them posted on the project. until the partner suddenly changed his mind and wanted it to be done the next day.. despite technical difficulties which i reported them in time. i told them it was impossible.. then they rambled a lot of irrational nonsense in which lied a core of thinking i would be wanting to do anything for them, the prestige and the money.. but i found that their attitude was beyond anything, so after one more explanation to them, and after yet another completely unreasonable reply i told them kindly to fuck off.then they sent me an email to confirm the breakup.
after which i let them know, by means of one last email, that i regret their attitude and that it won't bring them far. i was sure they would not find another designer doing all that work so well under these circumstances. they never did find another.
i pulled the plug. took their site offline and now it is still a piece of shit holding page. i hope they learned their lesson.
arrogant basterds.
- sorry for the long ramble.. had to get it off my chest..janne76
- link?stewart
- you pointed them out that everything you did is copyrighted?neverblink
- Meeklo0
Listen, we are going to be the next myspace, if you build and design this for us, your weblink will be at the bottom of every page, do you know the ammount of exposure you are going to get with this?
- so true lololololptouch718
- i must know this then! if they are as famous as myspace!janne76
- what is it? facebook? twitter?janne76
- don;t you love that. imagine if they tried to get a car for free becuase they would drive it around town and give the maker heaps of exposureMidge
- .... the maker heaps of exposureMidge
- cunts. the lot of them
Midge - totallyMeeklo
- ptouch7180
"Can you put this on our interweb"
- ********0
Comcast has just begun laying off their interactive despartment in Philly, a friend just called me and said the shit is about to hit the fan!
- all will be fine again in a few years..janne76
- off topicerikjonsson
- Midge0
Just (5 secs ago) reveived this from a client that hasn;t paid a bill for 7 months.
"We are wanting to a Christmas HTML Newsletter to our database and hoping you can help. As usual fast turnaround required and we want it cheap! "
- http://gerardlim.con…rupedixon
- you can only get two out of three...rupedixon
- agreed. but if the client is a cunt, they can take that triangle and shove all three points up their...Midge
- Midge0
To which I just responded...
"Guys, sorry, too busy to do anything quick or cheap. slow and expensive I could definitely fit in.
PS: if by quick you mean 7 months like the length it has taken **** to pay bills then thats sweet, i can do "quick".
- fantastic. +5 for that.airey
- well done!jevad
- Great stuff manbabaganush
- section_0140
"Put some bling on it." Seriously, wtf?
- caput580
Client: "I want freedom. I want to be able to edit everything on my website."
Me: "Are you sure? Do you know HTML, CSS..."
Client: "I just want 100% control."
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A week later...
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Client: "My website is falling apart!"
Me: "Really?"- what a joke eh? fucking arseholes.chossy
- Classic scenarioOhYeah
- ha ha. so true. i gotta wonder do they say the same thing to the car mechanic or plumbertheredmasque
- chossy0
I recently did a wee freelance job a simple endframe change of a project, I said just tack £50 onto the next project we do.
Several revisions of the endframe later due to my client not listening to his client has led me to regret saying just stick £50 etc. I was tempted to go behind my clients back and phone his client appologise and say look this is what you want isn't it not the crap he keeps asking me to do.
Do you guys often get that when your client asks for something then the account handler completely miscommunicates and or gets the clients brief completely wrong?...
- yes! stick it at the top of the page, no the bottom... several emails later... oh you wanted it to scroll with the window...Stugoo
- forbes0
when you give a knock-down price for a mate, do a good job of it and then goes and tell just about every single human being how much he paid for it. Thus a stampede of people ive never met wanting a website for the same price...
il never learn this but save yourselves - do not do work for friends!!!
- Ranger0
Me: Are you sure this is final text? Because the original deadline for this was last week...
Client: Yes it's taken longer as it had to be approved by the board but we're all happy and have got sign off from everyone now.
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A week later after days of type setting and the client has had the final files back
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Client: We have noticed a number of amends we need to make to the text. All our fault not yours. Is it best to resupply the word file or go over it on the phone? We will still need this for printing tonight.- hahaha, yep********
- do an online magazine, you build the whole thing then they update the text...Stugoo
- hahaha, yep
- Horp0
In the first meeting on a Tuesday afternoon...
Record label exec: Good news is: the band really love this illustration.
The band: yeah, we just totally love this illustration, its like, *awesome*.
Record label exec: Bad news is, scheduling means production deadline is Friday. Can we go with this visual? It looks great. Are you okay with that?
Band: Oh yeah, we're like TOTALLY ok with that. It looks really *AWESOME*, we *TODALLY LOVE IT*.
Me: Well, give me a couple of hours to tidy it up and we're good to go with this piece. I did it as a finished artwork anyway.
Everyone: Great!
Meeting ends, band and label get back in chauffered car. I sit at my desk, phone rings three minutes later, I pick up, its the record label exec in the car with the band.
"The band aren't happy about using the artwork. They want the following changes made...
Replace illustration of man with a studio photograph of a male model dressed as Pan with the band logo on his chest and maybe wearing some gold earrings of the logo too. He should have real goats legs photographed from a real goat.
Replace illustration of woman with a photograph of a woman dresseds as the robot out of Fritz Lang's Metropolis, holding a silver tray with a tall glass vase and a ruby red flower in it.
Remove typography from the arch overhead and replace with fairy lights.
Make the background an underwater palace scene, like the Disney castle but underwater with fish swimming in and out.
Add cherubs flying past in the foreground and swimming in the background.
We do need it done for Friday as we agreed, but the band fly back home on Thursday morning so they need to sign it off Wednesday afternoon, lunchtime-ish as they want to go shopping".
It got progressively more hostile from there onwards. This was the first meeting.
- I forget the name of the band though. "Cunt Sisters" or something ...Horp