Comments on: 10 Types of Bad Clients and How To Avoid Them

By: Kit Sabo

Kit Sabo — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 02:27:08 +0000

I find that negotiating for an hourly pay instead of a lump sum project fee will handle most of these problems.

By: Casey Rivera

Casey Rivera — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 20:21:10 +0000

I’m a freelancer and I’ve had a few of these also. And I am always relieved when I get rid of them. For any other freelancers, if you want to share freelancer stories, you can share them at: http://www.absurdpeople.com/

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Detach* » Why Freelancing Sucks, and How to Fix It — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 00:05:12 +0000

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By: Mr. Sifuentes

Mr. Sifuentes — Sat, 16 May 2009 02:02:11 +0000

I meet all of them early on in my career. Best thing to do is always get at least a 50% retainer.

By: 8 Signs of a Great Client « Best Design Content

8 Signs of a Great Client « Best Design Content — Wed, 13 May 2009 21:10:54 +0000

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By: Eric Fickes

Eric Fickes — Mon, 11 May 2009 15:34:33 +0000

Great list! I think I have a matching customer for every point on this list. Customers eh?

“Taken what they’re givin `cause I’m workin for a livin”

By: 8 Signs of a Great Client

8 Signs of a Great Client — Wed, 06 May 2009 23:02:41 +0000

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By: Meridith

Meridith — Mon, 04 May 2009 02:05:45 +0000

Wow, the last project I won through GAF was attached to a buyer who had almost all those qualities and more!

It was an SEO project. I won it on thursday and began working on it friday morning. My first mistake was allowing contact through IM. He would not stop sending me frequent messages. He wouldn’t even send me an email without me responding first to what ever the last message was on the IM!

(ie, “I need to send you an email”, a few minutes later he sends a nudge and again “I need to send you an email when you are back online”, and this continues until I answer him) This happened several times when I was actually afk so would come back to a long list of messages like that.

Then the bad got UGLY. He got very rude with me yesterday. I asked him very politely to not get rude with me again. He answered along the lines of well its my website. Like that was reason enough to get rude. The project ended today with him filing a dispute because he didn’t like that I expected him to not be rude to me.

Anyone who uses GAF (which I refuse to after this) do not take any projects from paulPAUL. I am not sure if he was just trying to get free work, or if he had a problem with me being a woman (the problems started right after he found out I was a woman). But in just the two days I had a chance to work on his seo, I corrected many issues he had on his sites which gave him close to 1000 new incoming links! (very huge site that was not being crawled but only for a couple pages). He now claims that I didn’t work at all on his seo, and that the search engines “created the links” that I didn’t do it. lol