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Originally posted by tootie
I normally do galleries at $30 each. I offered to do galleries for $20 each for Jeff because he wanted 30. He talked me down to $15 per gallery because he said he wanted very simple stuff, not very heavy on graphics.
After I made some templates he told me he wanted galleries, not templates. So I had to go in and pick and choose images for each gallery and crop the thumbs (I only crop by hand so I can zoom in on the best part of the pics, it increases conversions.) That added ALOT of time onto something I was already being paid rock bottom prices for, but I did it anyway, at the same price. It took longer than expected because of this.
When they were all done he said he really loved them and praised my work alot. He said he would wire the money but it never came and every day he blamed his bank for it. Finally he said he would send me a check via overnight, which he did. 10 days later it bounced. I contacted him and he said he would Western Union me what money he had on him (because the bank was closed and it was New Year's Eve) and he did, he sent $200 of the $450 he owed me. He said he would send the rest on Friday, January 2nd. I still don't have it. No wire, no check, nothing.
I did 30 galleries with hand cropped thumbs and all I have to show for it is $200 and a return check fee on my bank account.
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that sucks man, i feel ya. my story is quite similar to yours.
i did galleries first, which he did pay me for. it took about a week to get the first check. the first time was a paypal check, which was canceled on the clearing date (he said his account got zapped). he sent me a check, which he said was returned due to an incorrect name on the address. he sent me a check a week later via priority mail, which i gave him the benefit of the doubt.
then i did a bunch of banners for him, in which he sent me a check for less than half what he owed, plus "$50 for my troubles" (this check took over a month to reach me). since then he's promised god knows how many mailed checks and wires, which nothing came.
fortunately, neither of the checks he sent bounced.
that's the bad thing about karma, it catches up.