People die of exposure all the time.

and many less important things...

+1 XD

Yeah, that was my thought, too.

thin ice... very thin ice.

good times

"Even a whore gets paid!"

Only if I wanted him to fix it with a cherry bomb and the middle finger.

Oh yes.

No.
Fucking.
Shit!


I've had too many furries here on FA approach me, literally pulling this same shit!

Pass them the link XD.

nothing free is ever good and nothing good is ever free.

I turn down 2 or 3 unpaid jobs a week.

Been there. I used to have lots of 'friends' who wanted me to work on their computers for free. "Well, I thought we were friends, right?" Yeeeaaah, but I can't eat guilt, you know? I started telling them up front, "It's $20 an hour, or feed me dinner. Make it or order it in, and McDoodles and Scrubway isn't going to cut it." Last time someone asked me to remove a virus from their machine, I charged $40/hr, and it took four hours (had to reformat their hard drive and reinstall Windows). B@st@rd still owes me $10.

I have the other side of the coin. Artists bugging me for free or cheap tablespace at my old furcon or helping them get hotel rooms/etc at other cons cause * I know folks*. I just find it funny cause once you do them the solid its *poof* gone again till the next years con rolls around. Kind of used to the burn as you tell them no suddenly its all daggers and growls at you :/.

Gaia Bless
Pakesh_De
Snoofy old burr

The thing is, exposure is so easy, anyone can just draw things they like to draw and stick it online. Working for "exposure" is that - minus the doing what you like part. It's like paying less than zero.

My plumber has never insisted on revision fees for fixing basic errors.

This is where the analogy breaks down. Revisions are a fact of life for commission work and time is money.

I didn't tell the plumber to install that huge neon phallus in the first place! I said 'in proportion to his body size'.

Sounds like you went to the wrong plumber...

The Plumber's Alley was busy that day.

bwahahahaha!

Hey can you draw me some free art? *trollface*

No.

Any time I hear this canard, I politely remind them that I can't eat exposure. I can't pay my bills with exposure. I can't fill my gas tank with exposure. I try to be understanding that a lot of people don't have huge amounts of discretionary spending to toss around but there's only so far my understanding can stretch.

exactly. The other thing is get everthing in writing. Verbal agreements are worth the paper they are written on.