RE: Re[2]: FN-FORUM: Clients from Hell: for Gary

date posted 29th January 2004 16:20


I've just had that problem today! I am a student, I freelance to try
to supplement my terrible part-time job income, and I've spent just
over eight months working with a company to design a form of
Management Information System customized to their needs.
They fired their middle-man who basically mis-communicated the
project to me, twice, so I was in the third version of the solution,
redeveloping at no extra cost, through pride of my work.

After two months of very, very sparse contact, one of the junior
employees informed me today: "I think he's given up on that".

I've missed coursework deadlines to try and accomodate them and I've
written the application twice before, but now I am stuffed, quite
basically.

Anyone have any advice ?

Kind regards,
Baris


>I've had one potential client come back and say they had a member of
>their family do the website for free. Not necessarily a client from
>hell though - in fact, other than a few people who are bad at paying,
>a few people just fishing for quotes (annoying since I tend to put a
>fair amount of effort & research in order to get accurate figures),
>and a few people quibbling over whether item X in my timesheet should
>be billable most of my clients are lovely people.
>
>Incidentally, the last time I got a whole bunch of timewasters was
>when I was quoted in that last .net article about freelancers... I
>thought it couldn't do any harm to get quoted (free advertising and
>all that), but unfortunately didn't get a single bit of business.
>
>-- Richard
>http://www.rwatt.co.uk
>
>Thursday, January 29, 2004, 3:07:57 PM, you wrote:
>---------------------------------------
>
>facu> I've never had any bad clients, but I've had some that have
>caused me much
>facu> laughter and some pain with their ignorance. That's doesn't
>make them bad
>facu> per se, but you could class them as "nightmare" simply because
>they can piss
>facu> you off with their endless, "I want this to do that" and "why
>am i getting
>facu> phones charges even though I'm a monthly fee FREE isp" (could
>it be that you
>facu> had installed a freakin nasty dialler, that you were using by
>default
>facu> everytime you connected, INSTEAD of your 0800 free
>number????), blah blah -
>facu> maybe that's what the guy wants too.
>
>facu> I've never heard anyone say their nephew is doing their site
>though - do
>facu> people really say that or are you just making it up? Usually
>they just say,
>facu> "Website? Nah, not interested, BYE!"
>
>
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