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Lost $300 on a logo contest site before I figured out proper pricing
Last spring I put up a $50 logo contest on one of those design sites thinking I'd get a bargain. Ended up with 47 submissions that all looked like clip art garbage. After wasting two weeks and $300 total on revisions with three different designers, I finally just paid a local freelancer in Portland $400 cash. She nailed it in one round. Anyone else burn money on those cheap contest sites before realizing you get what you pay for?
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the_hayden1mo ago
Yeah, you basically paid for a masterclass in "cheap means cheap." Live and learn I guess.
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alext521mo ago
The $50 contest I ran got me 62 entries and exactly zero usable logos. @the_hayden is right, it's basically a tuition fee for the school of hard knocks lol. I spent another $200 on "guaranteed revisions" with one of their top rated guys and he just kept making the same font changes over and over. Ended up paying a buddy's girlfriend $350 who did graphic design on the side, got a real logo in three days. Those contest sites prey on people who don't know any better, it's almost a scam how they sell it.
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