He who mentions money first loses. Fundamental law of business.
If you ask for $X the number can only go down from there. If he asks for $Y the number can only go up from there.
He who mentions money first loses. Fundamental law of business.
If you ask for $X the number can only go down from there. If he asks for $Y the number can only go up from there.
I just wanted to thank you all for the good advise. I wrote the guy back, not mentioning any numbers, and basically told him that I wasn't opposed to the idea, but that I had a few questions (could I get a rough idea as to how the end piece would look, would I retain the rights to my picture for my own future use, etc) and also asked him tactfully (I think) how much he was planning to charge for his serigraphs. Unfortunately, he hasn't responded, so who knows? But anyway, I wanted to post this reply and thank you for the help-it's great to know that there's a forum like this where we can have each other's backs so to speak.
Yeah well sometimes they are just fishing for freebies or they have the Getty-on-Flickr approach of offering somebody "publicity" and paltry 20% of the total ~ there used to be a local postcard publisher who did that, he would solicit anyone with a pretty shot to give them to him for a credit line and 20 cards, lol.
I agree.Originally Posted by Jim Andrada
My wife and I recently bought her a new car. Before the salesman went in to talk to the sales manager and come back with a "first pencil" price, he asked me what I was willing to pay for the car. My reply was, "As little as possible".
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