[lbo-talk] p.s.

[Rotating Bitch]

just a follow up: those who thought that i didn't have a contract misread 
that. we'd contracted for him to pay hourly, which he did, but only for 
time R spent helping in assess some software. he thinks he shouldn't have 
to pay for meeting time. i billed him for an hour of meeting time and had 
already given him the initial free consultation. it's not standard in the 
industry to simply give away meeting time after the inital consult. And, 
even then, if you think it's free? it's not really. it usually gets folded 
into the hourly rate. that's why no one is ever really giving you their 
meeting tiem for free. you're paying for it in the hourly rate.

iow, as Steve correctly surmised, clients frequently try to haggle you and, 
if they think they're dangling something big in front of your face, they'll 
try to nickle and dime you.

yes, even with a contract.

if you want to hear horror stories, just lurk on the freelancer's list. 
companies do it all the time. and they expect you to come back and suck 
their balls for more where that came from.

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