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    Elance - Do you use it and have you had any success?

    eLance is a scourge upon the design community. Like spec work and crowdsourcing design contests, the only long-term effect that it can have is to devalue the professional, expert service that we provide by reducing what should be an in-depth, communicative and investigative proposal/costing...
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    When can they say "I don't accept it"

    Good viewpoints everyone, thank you, and I agree with all of them pretty much. Communication with the client, selling the idea, billing beyond X number of revisions... yep, I'm with you on all of that. Absolutely. However, I'm not sure that any of it quite answers the initial question. Which...
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    When can they say "I don't accept it"

    Dealing with Terms and Conditions makes me really confront all manner of things that I would normally just shudder and stop thinking about, because... well, just because they're the awkward snaggy corners of doing business. The stuff that has to be accounted for but you wish it didn't. Today's...
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    Cancellation from the design end

    Berry: Those T&Cs are great, thank. I might purloin bits for my own use if you don't mind; I've been trying to adapt the AIGA standard terms into a more manageable format using less legalese -- if I were a client and the designer dropped the AIGA contract in front of me then, frankly, I would...
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    Cancellation from the design end

    I've got my terms all worked out for if the client cancels a project midway through (who pays what, who owns what, etc). But I'm indecisive about what terms to apply should I wish to cancel the project (either because I've had my legs ripped off, or because the client's a deadbeat arse, or...
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    Late payment interest rates

    Thanks for the responses everyone. In answer to the question, no I'm not thinking about a specific client, either UK or US. The initial post was prompted by the fact that I'm drafting my standard terms and it has involved pulling in a load of sample contracts from other designers to see how...
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    Late payment interest rates

    Under the Late Payment of Commercial Debts Act we are entitled to charge interest on over due invoices. The standard in America seems to be 1.5% per month (18% annually). In the UK the rules AFAIK stipulate Bank of England Base rate + 8%, which currently means 8.5%. As I understand it this rate...
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