Re: FLASH: Opinion poll

[Jules Welek]

>> Opinion poll, here.

>>

>> A while back I did a Flash opener page for a friend/client (FSH) for a

>> future website she plans on opening.

>> The rest of her website was going to be developed by another client of

>mine

>> (LN) who has just opened a website touting healthy living ideals and

>> products. For these people I have been developing icons to represent

>> different kinds of news stories they'll be featuring on their site.

>> I have been paid by the FSH gal for the Flash work I did.

>> I invoiced LN about a month ago now, and have yet to see a check.

>> I did get a request last week from one of their people for a W-9, so I

>> thought this might mean a check was coming, but alas, not yet.

>> Also last week I got a call from the gal I'm working with at LN about the

>> Flash opener I did for the FSH gal, since I guess that project is looking

>to

>> get underway.

>> But since I have not (yet) been paid by the LN people, I'm considering -

>let

>> me just come right out and say it - holding the source .FLA file for the

>FSH

>> opener hostage in an attempt to get the FSH gal (who is a friend of the

>> people over at LN) to "influence" some movement on the part of the LN

>people

>> and their check-signers.

>>

>> This doesn't sound like a nice thing to do, and I certainly have a lot of

>> problems with doing such a thing to a friend of mine, but I also have a

>lot

>> of problems with not getting paid for my work, not to mention some laxness

>> on the part of their people about getting back to me.

>>

>> There you have it, in as much of a nutshell as I can give you.

>>

>> What would you do?

>>

>> -Brian Matthews


Apart from not agreeing with your actions (Two separate clients are

two-separate-clients! Surely, it is unprofessional to hold one company to

ransom because of the actions of another!), are you saying that you give

away the .FLA source file when you complete a job??


TIE,



Jules Welek

Senior IT Designer

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