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I would pay him $400 to go away. >
>I'm not sure I understand why most here would pay him to go away.
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>Even if there's no agreement in writing in place - had the retainer been over 1K (and the few times I've used a retainer, it's never been below that) without a formal agreement, I'd give the guy back one-half or maybe one-third. But for a piddly $400, I either wouldn't give the guy back a dime (I'd tell him it's a cancellation fee!) or I'd give him back $100 or $200. Just becuase Kevin M. has learned a few lessons doesn't mean the client gets to believe he's pristine.
But as you said earlier, it really depends on the agreement. If the google was the point of the project and he couldn't deliver it the client didn't get what he contracted for - no matter how much work etc went into it. I'd refund the money just because I had failed to deliver what I promised. ( but then, for $400, I'd have kept those promises pretty minimal :-)
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
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Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
