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Originally Posted by aico
In this industry everything is on a "need it yesterday" schedule. Due to this fact, many projects are not coordinated correctly, people make unrealistic promises, contracts are not produced and agreed upon, project timelines are not created, and many other problematic things occur. This creates an end result of failure.
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You sing the song my son.
From experience, I have heard many designers complain of that for sure. Especially on TGP's, and galleries. Some of the worst (I've heard) is people wanting insane designs for $50.
I have paid from low, to high end on those. I've been very satisfied on the high end. So I do not have a problem paying for the quality work. When I get into bigger projects with DB's, CSS, and a lot of functionality for flag ship type sites. I know it's going to cost thousands. I know it's not going to be done tomorrow. I am not trying to get bigger things for a few hundred bucks. But..
call backs, quotes, and blown timelines are always annoying. For example, if it's going to take a month, then you should be at certain bench marks along the way so I can look at it, and make sure we are going the right way, and any little tweaks can be done before delivery. When those things are not met, or you can't be reached because of (insert endless excuses here) then it's annoying.
When you blow a time line by 6 months, it's infuriating. Even more so that you see expect to get paid for this.
We have some bigger flagship mainstream projects on tap, and we are working on a confidentiality, but I am insisting they work in some 'commitment' clauses on designers to eliminate the frustrations, and grief as we move forward. I am not sure when he will have them all done because we are in the preliminaries. But if it's a $5K+ design, and it's going to take a month. So be it. But just as I pay 100% cash, you need to provide 100% service.
