the customer is NOT always right.

HillgrassBluebillyFTW · Fri Jan 18, 2008 12:23 pm

Here is what I gave them.

Here is what they went with.

The_Dude · Post by **The_Dude** » Fri Jan 18, 2008 12:29 pm

Wow...if they were going to use the 2nd one, they could've at least bumped the text down from the border and centered it in the white space. It would've made it a little more acceptable.

The_Dude · Post by **The_Dude** » Fri Jan 18, 2008 12:30 pm

...and why is her finger up the kids nose?

bassjones · Post by **bassjones** » Fri Jan 18, 2008 12:30 pm

You were right. Who picked that picture though. Looks like she's got her finger jammed up the poor kid's nose.

HillgrassBluebillyFTW · Fri Jan 18, 2008 12:33 pm

The_Dude wrote:Wow...if they were going to use the 2nd one, they could've at least bumped the text down from the border and centered it in the white space. It would've made it a little more acceptable.

I refused to fix the text. f**k them.

Jeff · Post by **Jeff** » Fri Jan 18, 2008 12:55 pm

HillgrassBluebillyFTW · Fri Jan 18, 2008 1:05 pm

Jeff wrote:Was this for a business card?

newspaper ad, 6col x 5" so it took up the bottom quarter (give or take) of the newspaper.

so you'd think you'd want a little creativity.

Steel String Bender · Post by **Steel String Bender** » Fri Jan 18, 2008 1:56 pm

anderson wrote:
The_Dude wrote:Wow...if they were going to use the 2nd one, they could've at least bumped the text down from the border and centered it in the white space. It would've made it a little more acceptable.
I refused to fix the text. f**k them.

Sorry grasshopper, the customer is always right, even when they very much seem to be wrong.

Venting your displeasure with the customer in a public forum!?! Geez Louise, change the subject header to "The vendor is not always right!"

HillgrassBluebillyFTW · Fri Jan 18, 2008 2:02 pm

Steel String Bender wrote:
anderson wrote:
The_Dude wrote:Wow...if they were going to use the 2nd one, they could've at least bumped the text down from the border and centered it in the white space. It would've made it a little more acceptable.
I refused to fix the text. f**k them.
Sorry grasshopper, the customer is always right, even when they very much seem to be wrong.

Venting your displeasure with the customer in a public forum!?! Geez Louise, change the subject header to "The vendor is not always right!"

Customer is NOT always right, I'll stand by that statement from now until the day I die.

bwohlgemuth · Post by **bwohlgemuth** » Fri Jan 18, 2008 2:04 pm

Agreed...customer is the one who pays your bills. Now, if they slapped your name at the bottom (Ad designed by Ando!) THEN you could possibly have a right to b*tch.

It isn't "art", it's an ad in a paper that will never see the light of day again.

Steel String Bender · Post by **Steel String Bender** » Fri Jan 18, 2008 2:13 pm

anderson wrote:
Steel String Bender wrote:
anderson wrote: I refused to fix the text. f**k them.
Sorry grasshopper, the customer is always right, even when they very much seem to be wrong.

Venting your displeasure with the customer in a public forum!?! Geez Louise, change the subject header to "The vendor is not always right!"
Customer is NOT always right, I'll stand by that statement from now until the day I die.

Stand by whatever you wish, for as long as you feel necessary. But seriously, you don't see anything wrong with dissing your client in a public forum? Good luck to you in your future business endeavors.

bwohlgemuth · Post by **bwohlgemuth** » Fri Jan 18, 2008 2:28 pm

Have to agree with SSB. Hate to say this Ando, but this won't win brownie points with the general public, who is your core customer.

HillgrassBluebillyFTW · Fri Jan 18, 2008 2:34 pm

name of client has been changed to protect the dumb.

and if they can read this then... I guess I'll deal with it then.

sevesd93 · Post by **sevesd93** » Fri Jan 18, 2008 2:43 pm

I waited tables for 5 years, and trust me when I say this, the customer is NOT always right.

bwohlgemuth · Post by **bwohlgemuth** » Fri Jan 18, 2008 3:53 pm

I think there is a difference here.

The customer is not always right, but they are the ones who pay the bills.

Case in point. We had a customer who literally was costing us money. Figured it out that it was $20k a month just because on their whining and needless BS. We fired the customer. It was a money loser and the long term possibilities were NOT worth the costs today.

You may not like the things your customers want to do, or the choices they make. But you have to decide whether those choices are really worth losing their business (and with their peers as well, word of mouth is a powerful tool that can make or break a business).

We actually gained a customer from this mess. When they heard that we fired one of our old references, they liked that we had the balls to walk away from a pain in the ass.