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Originally Posted by Paul Markham
If I were Jack Sparrow, or some other unknown I would agree. As I'm not and often the people asking me to front the money are unknowns, not Relentless, I stick by what I said. My reputation on delivering and paying is second to none.
Bako, why do you bother?
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It's not only about the client ripping the developer off or not - it's about the fact that the client is then invested into the project. What if you change your mind? What if you cancel your project? What if somethign happens during development that changes the profitability/feasibility (ie you want a filehost developed and all those busts start happening and you panic)?
I had a client pull this a few months ago...repeat client, we probably did $10k of work for them over the course of the months before it. Then they sent us like 20 psd files, we quoted, they accepted, we did the work and they vanished like a fart in the wind. They were a repeat client so we didn't take a deposit because we trusted them.