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When it comes to designers: Is it really a "buyer's market?"
I have heard this on the board a number of times.
Is this the truth? Or is it just a perceived truth?
It depends, what do you want? Quality, quantity, quick turnaround, low price.
Sure there is an influx of designers on GFY from gallery makers, to full fledge paysite designs.
Some of them even offer incredibly low prices.
However what are you getting into?
Will you be happy with the work?
Do you have any history with this person, any references, do they have any kind of reputation?
Sure veryone deserves a chance don't get me wrong...but to just outright say it's a buyer's market is IMO just not true.
As for myself I am turning down clients all the time, I just don't have enough time in the day to do every order that comes across my ICQ and at this point I could be booked through May if I choosed to book that far in advance.
I know a few others on here that are experiencing the same thing.
I also do not see the benefits to you the client to be in a "buyers market," other than saving $5-$10 or even $15.00 on a gallery template or any design.
You have to consider what effects a price war can have on that designer you love so much.
If you want to force him to compete with some eastern european designer who can live on 1/3 of what he makes a day, then pretty soon that's all you'll have left is a bunch of outsourced $15 - $20 dollar designs that may or may not make you money.
Don't get me wrong, I appreciate all my clients and do my best to try to satisfy them but I am far from perfect...LOL
I am just a squirrel like everyone else here trying to get a nut.
But a buyer's market? Not IMO.
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