50% up front then you get an invoice and have a month to pay.
He should have had some proofs for you initially before taking the payment, may have made the process quicker as well. sounds like he may not have.
How it goes at my mainstream job and when I freelance.
I have done mainstream work through media companies for a couple decent corporations and non profits in NY and the UK and that was always expected.
If the guy didn't answer you he could have gotten flooded with work or got lazy and kept pushing it off. If there were some complicated parts of the site, he could have not known how to do some of it and freaked out maybe. Something was wrong if he went way past his deadline in general, and it wasn't your fault. You sound like a good guy to extend hs deadline after it went buy and not hearing from em.
5 days notice isn't the norm in mainstream, at least to my knowledge.
Idk about adult designers.
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