Comments on: 1PT.Rule Comic: This Actually Happens All The Time

By: notstevegordan

notstevegordan — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 20:54:19 +0000

http://www.27bslash6.com/p2p.html "Disregarding the fact that you have still not paid me for work I completed earlier this year despite several assertions that you would do so, I would be delighted to spend my free time creating logos and pie charts for you based on further vague promises of future possible payment. Please find attached pie chart as requested and let me know of any changes required."

By: Adam

Adam — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 16:50:06 +0000

Jessi,
Thats sucks, at least I am in a better situation that it’s not my client trying to scam me out of sketches. This guys just wants to reuse something already created so he can get out cheep.
Silly really, because if he does end up copying its going to look so bad on him.
Adam

By: Jessi

Jessi — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 14:33:08 +0000

Ouch, I hope you don't see that Adam. I once spent months working with a committee to create this identity. http://jessilong.com/long02.html Only, just before implementation to find this http://www.cgnad.com/default.asp?action=article&ID=149 Of course the date of first initial usage on their trademark was um...coincidentally just after I had released my initial sketches. Well played...

By: Adam

Adam — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 10:53:18 +0000

Hahaha, you know it. How else will I stay productive.
From my previous post though I left out that this guy tried to explain to me that it can’t be that hard to design / code this stuff for him because I had already done it once.
Can’t wait till a site selling knives pops up with my design. Definitely will have some fun with it.

By: Nate Voss

Nate Voss — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 10:48:31 +0000

So you set up a sophisticated automatic Google program to troll CraigsList for you?
You’re practically writing Monday’s strip right now, man!

By: Adam

Adam — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 10:21:15 +0000

No I have this fancy thing called google analytics and alerts that found this for me :).

By: Nate Voss

Nate Voss — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 10:09:43 +0000

So, Adam, what you’re really saying is that you troll Craigslist for clients?

By: Adam

Adam — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 09:49:16 +0000

So recently I finished a site for Morgan Ranch. About a month after that I received a phone call from a guy in Seattle interested in working with me because of that site. He wanted me to design their site using the Morgan stuff, then code the html / css, then also they needed a logo.
Their budget $500
I declined, nothing like asking me to throw strategy out the window and just copy.
A day later I came across this, posted by the same guy.
http://spokane.craigslist.org/web/1480038287.html

By: Prescott Perez-Fox

Prescott Perez-Fox — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 07:53:46 +0000

Oh Craig’s List. I have quit CL a total of three times, and I hope it’s for good. Over the years, I have found several apartments through the List, but the jobs have been less fruitful. To date, every job (freelance or full-time) has ended badly, usually from a fundamental misunderstanding of the design profession and how to hire/treat employees.
However, I have just started a new role that came about through CL. In this case, the ad didn’t promise much, just the opposite in fact, it was dreadfully, almost comically vague. We’ll see how it goes.