Have you ever heard of this?

[Arthur07]

After responding to a post on webhostingtalk i was hired to design a flyer (for print).

I agreed to design the flyer for $30 (cheap as chips, i was in a good mood) and I set about designing the flyer to the clients specifications - after i sent the works they disappeared - low and behold, no money.

After about a week I caught the client on messenger (I presume he was avoiding me), he refused to pay me on the grounds that he had also hired another 2 designers both for the same job as me at the same time as he had hired me and was only only prepared to pay one of us - or this was the story.

He insisted that, it was perfectly legal to hire 3 people do the same job and only pay 1. Surely this is rubbish? He said, he never used my works but he probably ripped them.

It's only 30 bucks but it's still annoying. So then, to clarify is this legal?

Regards,
Arthur

[masm50]

I'm imagining you didn't have a contract or anything, and for such a small amount of money it isn't really worth raising this anywhere, but I get your point.

I'm no lawyer, but as there is no contract then I don't think it is illegal, but certainly dishonest. If he had made you aware of the other workers in advance and told you that it was basically a competition then that would have been fine.

However, what the client did was certainly morally wrong if nothing else.

-Tim

[rjp]

It's tough to say what the legal grounds are since there is no written contract, but this guy obviously doesn't have high morals.

I guess in the future make sure you get something on paper.

[Mystic]

If there is no written contract, I dont think you can proove it.
But, even then its certainly not ethical.

[Reckless]

Yeah that happens allot

in the future make sure you get some money (50%) before you start designing anything

[Arthur07]

Thanks everyone, i thought as much.

Yeah that happens allot

in the future make sure you get some money (50%) before you start designing anything

Sounds like a plan :).