AND THE BAND PLAYED ON

[Sbrem]

As a player who has dealt with many players over the years, all I can say is, it sounds typical. I use the analogy of, "I'll tell you what, you play for free, and if we like like you, we'll pay you next time..." The point being that neither of us wants to work for free. Art is $60.00 per hour, you want to pay us to search for fonts you might not like? I bet he can't read music either.

Steve

[Shawn (EIP)]

He must have been an older musician because the young people I deal with, most of them are better at PS than I am. It's the schools and business's that hand me a business card and say copy that , last years shirt to "scan", crappy 72 res jpeg made in windows paint or stolen art from Google Images.  The biggest issue I run into with bands when it comes to artwork is they try to pass me the artist's "proof sample" image because they do not want to pay for the high res version.

[RICK STEFANICK]

I'd imagine that sounds like a typical week. I'd bet that If that doesn't happen several times a month, your not doing enough business. LOL.
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that is so true dan. We would take the order, build in the appropriate art time, tally it up and take the money and produce the order.Why should it matter what it takes as long as you get paid?

[Frog]

I gathered that this particular client did not want to pay the $240 additional charge to locate and print these fonts nicely. On 50 shirts, $240 additional "search and whatever" time could not be easily built in on a job, especially to this individual and even his demographic known for tight fists.
Now, whether that $240 was a reasonable amount, I can't say.

[Gilligan]

Especially given he was just gonna throw it up on here or another font forum and make everyone else do the work.  :p  j/k

[mooseman]

I gathered that this particular client did not want to pay the $240 additional charge to locate and print these fonts nicely. On 50 shirts, $240 additional "search and whatever" time could not be easily built in on a job, especially to this individual and even his demographic known for tight fists.
Now, whether that $240 was a reasonable amount, I can't say.

the posted story was the Cliff Notes version..... i  left out a bunch of interaction with him.
it didn't matter because by the time I got to the $240.00 font finders fee tha man was already so upset with me he was already slamming his papers on the counter and folding up his shirts.
The deal really went to heavy metal hell when i said i could not copy fonts from the shirts he had , he wanted to litigate that and refused to accept the fact i was not going to workfrom his shirt art.
the guy simply didn not want to get involved with the process and clearly did not like taking no as an answer.
there is one good thing I can say abouit him he is gone....GOOD and thank goodness

[Gilligan]

Constant rejection will do that to you.... you probably weren't the first to tell him to piss off! LOL

[sweetts]

Man my brother is a TV repairman  he  has bitchin set of tools I bet he could have recreated the fonts

Sent  from samsung gem(the worst smart phone ever)

[Frog]

Way off track, but I just watched the guy from LG change the panel on our plasma set, and it was pretty interesting to see just what's in there.

[sweetts]

Can you see plasma mmuffaaahhhhaahaa

Sent  from samsung gem(the worst smart phone ever)

[Gilligan]

They are supposed to be coming out with an LCD TV that is 4mm thick!

[Frog]

At the CES trade show, they say that the OLED tv's were the stars. The "O" stands for organic. These screens use a combination light source and LCD, eliminating the edge-lighting or back-lighting LED's that we have now, (at least on out LCD sets) and yes, only 0.16" thick and 16.5 lbs for the LG.
Dig deep, $8000-$10,000 expected for a 55" from LG or Samsung later this year.

Sony has something similar in the wings

[Itsa Little CrOoked]

I'd certainly would have to get OILED..... ahem....to drop that kind of coin on a TV! 

[Gilligan]

I have a client that will get one.

He always has to have the latest and greatest... and pitches a fit about how much money he spends/I cost him.  *shrug*

[Frog]

I'd certainly would have to get OILED..... ahem....to drop that kind of coin on a TV! 

Sorry to keep going on TV's, but right now, there are some fantastic deals on TV's as low as $650 (on a one day sale) but typically about $750 at Fry's for a 50" LG50PZ950U plasma smart TV that was their top of the line plasma a year ago. Absolutely the most TV for the money I have seen.
Its picture surprised us a being comparable to a Samsung 8000 C( though it is a 55") which cost closer to $2000 Christmas 2010 (with the new 8000"s with no touch touch screens closer to $2900. But hell, whats the point of a touch screen big screen when you have a remote?)