"Burt Johnson" <burt@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> 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
Just saying if!!
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