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The client who kept adding requests after I said 'final revision' last week
Had a guy I was doing a small blog post for, $75 for 500 words. He said one revision was fine. Then he asked for three more, each time saying 'just one tiny change.' Fourth time I told him the price would go up if he wanted more. He got mad and left a bad review on my profile. Learned the hard way to write 'additional revisions cost extra' right in the message before starting. Anyone else have a client push past agreed limits?
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danielowens3mo ago
...and that bad review probably cost you more than the $75 was ever worth. I've been there - had a client who wanted "just a few small tweaks" to a logo I designed, and by the end it was basically a completely different logo from what we agreed on. I learned to put "two rounds of revisions included, additional rounds are $25 each" in the initial message, right next to the price. It's amazing how fast people decide their changes aren't that important when you put a dollar sign on them.
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dakota_miller933mo ago
Actually that pricing model makes me nervous for you. $75 for 500 words is really low, like absurdly low. You're basically giving away your time for pennies per hour if you factor in the revisions and back and forth. That might be part of why he felt entitled to keep asking for more changes, because the price signaled that your work wasn't that valuable. Not saying he was right to be a jerk about it, but cheap clients tend to be the most demanding ones in my experience. The real fix here isn't just writing 'additional revisions cost extra' in the message, but also charging what your time is actually worth so clients respect your boundaries from the start. Raise your rates and you'll attract better clients who don't pull this nonsense.
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