payment
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Category: The Lounge
Forum Name: Resources and Support
Forum Discription: Help your fellow pixel artists out with links to good tutorials, other forums, software, fonts, etc. Bugs and support issues should go here as well.
URL: https://pixeljoint.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=10191
Printed Date: 17 February 2026 at 3:13pm
Topic: payment
Posted By: jagguy
Subject: payment
Date Posted: 13 April 2010 at 7:29pm
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Hi, Is there a accepted procedure on paying for graphics? Do you pay up front or pay when work is complete? How do you know if the person is real or how does the artist know you will pay etc? |
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Posted By: jalonso
Date Posted: 13 April 2010 at 7:35pm
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There is always a risk. All online transactions tend to be. Watermarking art is one way to handle things. Once payment is received you send the non-watermarked one. I am partial to the half up front and the other half on completion. ------------- |
Posted By: 1ucas
Date Posted: 13 April 2010 at 8:03pm
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Working as a freelancer programmer for a couple of years, and getting stabbed in the back a few times during that time, I came up with some simple guidelines:
1) 50% upfront (negotiable down to 25%, in very few special cases) 2) If the guy doesn't want to pay anything upfront, refuse to work without a formal contract. You need your guarantee, too. It's your right. 3) Try to get a formal contract anyway if the work involves a large sum of money and/or time (how much is up to you) And a warning: if you are being hired for the job along with other people that are doing the same thing as you, be careful with what they may do with your stuff. My experience is with code, but I can see a lot of similar things happening with graphics. ------------- http://toxicdump.org/labs/frameviewer/viewer.php - Online Animated GIF Frame Viewer |
Posted By: jagguy
Date Posted: 14 April 2010 at 3:27am
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Hi,
I am hiring a pixel artist as I am a coder.
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Posted By: Robinhood
Date Posted: 14 April 2010 at 4:59pm
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Take that to the forum_topics.asp?FID=11 - Job Offerings section of the forum. Be sure to read the sticky post for rules on posting there. (E-Mail, previous jobs, payment, ect)
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