Pete D <no@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> "Burt Johnson" <burt@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
> news:1iew99i.kucu1c1sigm50N%burt@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Personally I'd just drop it and move on if it is only a couple hours
> > invested. Bummer, but no cost of consequence out of pocket, and it
> > wouldn't be worth the angst of collecting in a situation like this.
> >
> > --
> > - Burt Johnson
> > MindStorm, Inc.
> > http://www.mindstorm-inc.com/software.html
>
> If however you have turned down other work and they have cancelled at
short
> notice then you have a reasonable claim on some payment.
I don't believe the OP said that was the case. It didn't sound like
such a large commission that it would have likely precluded other work
anyway.
These things happen. I am a software developer rather than professional
photographer, but I have had software projects eva****ate on starting day
or after the first session -- sometimes when they discover it isn't
going to be as cheap or quick as they had hoped. Once when the
chemistry just wasn't right, and it was clear we would not work well
together.
My approach has been to never charge for less than a week's work. I've
had it happen half a dozen times in the past 20 years that I've done
contract programming.
--
- Burt Johnson
MindStorm, Inc.
http://www.mindstorm-inc.com/software.html
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