i had this arsehole of a client whom i had already shown TWO drafts to already.....and that was after he critiqued the first one with stupid comments like "IF you did your research you would know that a site selling food must have pink and blue in it. just like my brochure."
-----SEZ WHO???? HELLO KITTY? MICKEY MOUSE ? geez. :) brochure by the way is freakin FREAKIN' ugly by any standards....its not even plain, or ordinary, its just UGLY. pink and blue checks 'nuff said, big, curly fonts in english AND chinese......
anyway he likes the second one i did and then he suddenly checks out my quotations again and asks me rudely why its so expensive.
i explain the breakdown again and then nicely offer to give him a better price since its our first few jobs and i was pretty interested in doing his site......
i give him a good deal, he takes a week to get back to me, and when he does he triumphantly declares he managed to find another web designer who would do it for 50% off my price. and i am not even charging high-end, man. i offer to cut a little bit more, he takes another week and again comes back with yet another mysterious web designer who will do it for 80% off my price AND deliver it in one week.
he says in a tone like "beat this, you desigtner punk", faxes me back my quote with big circles and words "why SO EXPENSIVE?"
i tell him there is no way i can even bother to match that guy's price or timeline and tell him good luck and byebye.
i am just itching to see what his mysterious designer can do with that little cash in a week......its been a month and i still dont see his site anywhere....geez
darn clients.
LET'S START A WEBSITE just to swap ugly client stories! we can even have a great gallery with artstyles that clients love!
i'll contribute a webpage with bevelled Amazon.com like tabs on top, font 14 point everywhere and EVERY HEADLINE BLINKS.......hey i'll even throw in all the colours you can find in the web palette.....