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

date posted 29th January 2004 15:36

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:
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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!"