Joanna
Rotating Bitch wrote:
> 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.
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> 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.
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> yes, even with a contract.
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> 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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