Showing posts with label freelance. Show all posts
Showing posts with label freelance. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 9, 2009

Hagglers' Hell

Anyone who's ever had to negotiate their freelance fee with chintzy clients will laugh until they cry at the brutal truths re-enacted in this funny video, "The Vendor Client Relationship," produced by Scofield Editorial, an Indianapolis post-production house.

You'll hear every inane excuse in the book as to why customers can't or don't want to pay your established rate -- and appreciate how absurd it would be if they tried this pathetic approach at a restaurant, hair salon or retail store.

If only you had a nickel for every time you wish you would've reacted in stunned disbelief, after a publisher tries to wriggle out of paying for quality goods by claiming he can get the same thing cheaper down the street: "Sir, we're not the taco stand."