Perfect Is Not Enough For This Client

You are mad, if you are still working with her.

I would have returned the money, deleted the blog and kicked my ass for agreeing to work with her in the first place.

thejake said:

I agree, she should have done squarespace in the first place.

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That's the thing, when I first met with her, she told me that she doesn't want to spend any money on hosting (which is why we decided to use the Blogger platrform), but she's fine with buying a domain name (get this, instead of a .com domain, she wanted a .me because the website is about her. What a narcissist!). If I remember correctly, Squarespace is about $8-$24 a month, but she doesn't know this yet because she still hasn't bothered checking the email I sent her 2 days ago. She can use Squarespace if she wants, but there's no way I'm helping her with it, especially for free.

jr_sci said:

You are mad, if you are still working with her.

I would have returned the money, deleted the blog and kicked my ass for agreeing to work with her in the first place.

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Your post was funny. Anyway, she wasn't too bad to work with until her college student client decided that she could try to steal my client. Before, she even said it herself that she thought that the website was amazing (so did her husband and her other friends), but now she thinks that she's entitled to only the best at little to no cost to her. I've been trying to reach her for 2 days so that I can tell her that I refuse to work with her any more, but she's visiting family for the Thanksgiving weekend (yet, she thinks that it's okay to pester me on Thanksgiving when I'm trying to spend time with my family).

I think she wants you, that's what it is

Redo the site with porn theme, rename it to GulpingGilfs, and keep her original pictures there.

Then ask if she can take a look at the new design.

Matthew Cutts said:

Redo the site with porn theme, rename it to GulpingGilfs, and keep her original pictures there.

Then ask if she can take a look at the new design.

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I think you should really consider this, OP. Do this before she comes over and just make a slideshow for the website while posting it on Facebook. Then you will surely get your money add be able to ditch her for good.

This is why I stopped doing web-design. Every client is exactly like this. This otmeal comic expresses it perfectly: http://theoatmeal.com/comics/design_hell

when i did it, i found the less i charged, the more idiots i got. also NEVER work for your relatives friends, they will take advantage of you. had that happen too.

at the end of the day idiots will talk shit about you even if you tried your best to make them happy.

its better to let them go, and figure out a method of screening them before taking them on.

i found these key phrases to watch out for:

"This should be a simple job"
"This should be quick for a good programmer"
"I just want ___" (no, they don't)
"I've got an 'idea' I'll partner with you"

a nice way of telling them to piss off is "I'm currently too booked to take on new clients, thanks for your interest."

If you dont need urgent money, i guess it would be better to get out of it