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• TheCrawNotTheCraw commented on Freelancer vs cheap client: please design me a logo, with pie charts, for free
  It's dangerous to generalize, but I have done web sites for two real estate guys who each expected a) a fixed price, b) insisted on multiple, after-the-fact changes as part of the fixed price, c) had an idea for a universal website which was to be a general-purpose "money-making machine" (you can't make this stuff up), d) refused to sign binding legal agreements, and/or threatened to spread gossip about my professional practice. One wanted to spam people, and the other invited me to lunch, suggested we split a burger "because they are so big" (it wasn't), and then, having wasted...
• phlavor commented on Freelancer vs cheap client: please design me a logo, with pie charts, for free
  Graphic Design is a funny business. You can be the best designer in the world but if you have an, uh, un-savvy client, what's the point. I know this guy who was tasked with designing a new logo for Gate Petroleum. He worked real hard on about 15 logos, threw in another 10 that were borderline, and roughed up another 5 the morning of the meeting. Here's the one they chose: http://wpcontent.answers.com/wikipedia/en/f/fe/Gatelogo_160x158.PNG It was one he had sketched on a napkin in the car that morning. They saw it and said, "Hey! It's a gate. We're called Gate and there's...
• Simon Edhouse commented on Freelancer vs cheap client: please design me a logo, with pie charts, for free
  I have read the comments above, and will respond to the satire on David's site in due course in a blog piece of my own to shed some light on what drives Mr. Thorn to come up with stuff like this. ~ I had some immediate reactions and responses to what happened, and some of those reactions were based on my complete disbelief at what I was witnessing. I have made some simple statements about my position, but it seems more is required. I am happy to do that, but I will do so carefully... mainly because David has been...
• Simon Edhouse commented on Freelancer vs cheap client: please design me a logo, with pie charts, for free
  "hateful personal slander"... how weird the world is. If I reacted with abrupt horror, and said WTF?, please understand that the whole email sequence on David's site was concocted by him. i.e. not exagerated, but COMPLETELY invented. Further, in the side bar he has made comments about my work which are fictitious and ridiculous. (David wrote a warm recommendation about that period on my Linkedin page which I deleted when we had a falling out) ...and seriously, what he has done is trigger lots of people's hatred for sleeze bags that use designers and don't pay them. But, actually, the...
• Simon Edhouse commented on Freelancer vs cheap client: please design me a logo, with pie charts, for free
  'redesigned' ... David's accusations "make sense", and my reactions are harsh and slanderous. - David's accusations only make sense because he is triggering a stereotyped meme of the 'bad commercial guy, ripping off the designer, and it is almost inconceivable as to why someone would do that unprovoked, right? Yep, and this is his best defense, the implausibility of him being insincere. - But look into his site, and look at how he has ridiculed and degraded his co-workers, like "Shannon" who picked him up when he was down, rented a house for him, when he couldn't get even that...