That's great advice, Christopher. It is certainly a situation I've been in. And thanks for that link to the 'pay by the hour' guy. That is indeed priceless. :)
- Nigel Hanley On 04/07/2012, at 10:52 PM, Christopher Smith wrote: > Michael, > > So sorry to hear about your woes. Most of us have been there before. > At this point, after the price has been set and the work mostly done, > there isn't much to do except try to make the client see that the > price IS actually fair. He must have had an idea of how much it would > be in the end, since he was aware of how many measures and > instruments he was asking for. > > A friend of mine once said that there are only three things that are > important in a contract. Scope, time and money. Scope is the size of > the work, time is the deadline, and of course money is the price, > about which there can be no discussion after the contract is agreed > upon, UNLESS there are changes to the scope and/or time, which there > appear to have been! Since you were clear about how the work is > charged, there is no problem here. After being burned a few times on > revisions and changes, I now charge hourly for changes after ONE > chance to sign off on the original work. Offering certain > satisfaction to the client, as you do, was my policy at first, but > then I realised that some clients were never satisfied, and some > (even worse) changed their minds constantly after the work was done. > _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
