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YC S12 company refuses to pay for my design. "Send your claim to our legal team"

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Re: YC S12 company refuses to pay for my design. "Send your claim to our legal team"

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Post by javajosh »

_delirium wrote: post #19

I'm going to go out on a limb and register a slight discomfort with the increasing use of HN as a "court of public opinion" in very fact-bound disputes like this one. I can sort of see resorting to it out of desperation, but I'm afraid the Internet Lynch Mob has a very high ratio of outrage to effort spent actually investigating. This post has 84 upvotes in 21 minutes, which suggests a very quick investigation! So, t…

Actually I agree. That's why small claims court should precede the public shaming.

Re: YC S12 company refuses to pay for my design. "Send your claim to our legal team"

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Post by faramarz »

Not handled professionally on the designers part. He could have turned this into a win by being their go-to-guy for future contract work or getting referrals to other YC residents instead.

I don't think it was worth resorting to public shaming for a few grand. I guess Eligible got some free press out of this now. Well done!

Re: YC S12 company refuses to pay for my design. "Send your claim to our legal team"

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Post by geekfactor »

brackin wrote: post #8

You get what you pay for I guess. Their mobile app looks terrible, tries to copy the Path sharing functionality in a completely strange context. When something like this could be created with a far cleaner interface. In a strange way I understand the position the CEO may be in. They may have thought because they weren't going to use it they shouldn't have to pay. In the past I've paid a designer for work only to chan…

Based on the screenshot currently gracing the eligibleapp.com home page, perhaps the CEO specifically requested a Path knock-off. ("We really love the Path app, can you make it look like that?")

Re: YC S12 company refuses to pay for my design. "Send your claim to our legal team"

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Post by bmac27 »

I've also been in the equally unenviable position of having to pay for someone who completed work according to a scope that was too vaguely defined. The guy I contracted to do the work did the work according to the broad outline I originally set out.

Being young & stupid at the time, I blamed him for thinking he took shortcuts and refused to pay him all of what he was owed at first. But it was my fault for not being more specific in the original job. I eventually apologized and paid him the rest of the money. Lesson learned.

I believe design work is especially prone to this. But none of this is an excuse. If you have a signed contract, you honor it. Period.

Re: YC S12 company refuses to pay for my design. "Send your claim to our legal team"

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Post by javajosh »

faramarz wrote: post #22

Not handled professionally on the designers part. He could have turned this into a win by being their go-to-guy for future contract work or getting referrals to other YC residents instead. I don't think it was worth resorting to public shaming for a few grand. I guess Eligible got some free press out of this now. Well done!

If what the designer saying is true, then Eligible breached contract. Verbal contracts are binding in CA. And he is within his rights to get paid for his work. It should not damage his reputation at all.

Re: YC S12 company refuses to pay for my design. "Send your claim to our legal team"

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Post by alttab »

kika wrote: post #9

I don't understand this, people. They're YC funded, in the worst case they have how much now, 10k? Risk your reputation for a few hundred dollars, having a few thousand in the pocket, why?

They didn't sign anything, and the "CEO" of any YC startup early enough to need to outsource product development isn't promising anything despite their words.

Re: YC S12 company refuses to pay for my design. "Send your claim to our legal team"

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faramarz wrote: post #22

Not handled professionally on the designers part. He could have turned this into a win by being their go-to-guy for future contract work or getting referrals to other YC residents instead. I don't think it was worth resorting to public shaming for a few grand. I guess Eligible got some free press out of this now. Well done!

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