Maybe someone you remember me from my post a week ago. I was the guy who made the post about the abusive client who wanted to cancel my contract because I was not working on Sunday. She is paying a fixed rate.
I wanted to give an update. First of all these client is a freaking monster. I had spoken to her about her needing to compensate me for all the revisions. I said that she would. Once I completed the work (for the 8th time), I asked her to create a second milestone to compensate me for the revisions. I worked long enough with her to know she was lying about adding the compensation of the revisions as a bonus at the end of the fixed contract. She had the director ask me on whatsapp for a 9th revision. I explained to him that I simply will not be doing another revisions until I am paid and a milestone is created for the revision so I could be compensated.
I get on Upwork and I see she has sent me a scathing rant about me telling the director the reason I am not proceed with the revisions he asked me. She said I was not supposed to tell him about anything concerning compensation. I had no choice because I had to give him a reason. She said I broke the NDA I signed and that due to that she doesn't need to honor paying me any money 😂😂😂😂😂.
I swear small clients love thinking they on the level of big companies. I could tell her NDA was taken straight from the internet and it said nothing about me revealing compensation information, also not once did she ever mention to keep anything from her team. On top of that since I haven't gotten paid I see the NDA as void. The NDA mentions payment, however she hasn't paid me.
I delivered the final video to her, but I refuse to deliver the project files and all materials as I am using it as leverage to get compensation for the revisions.
I have reported her sheningans to Upwork. Upwork has offered to have a special mediator step in, however I fear not getting the full budget.
By the way, after she found out that I told the director about her no paying she was so furious that she said, we going back to the original agreement of the fixed price and she won't pay for any of the revisions. However I explained to her that the messages between us on Upwork where she agreed to the payment of revisions can also work as a mutual agreement.
The client is silent after I delivered only the video, however I am sure she is gonna make more stupid demands tomorrow on Monday. I am thinking of buying time for the 14 days since my last revision to pass so I get paid or I persuade her to close the contract so I can initiate a no pay dispute. I suspect these 2 options will work in my favour more than having upwork initiate a no pay dispute by force.
The client is incredibly abusive and I can see on her past history with other Upwork freelancers she didn't have a pleasant time with them. I am aware at this point she is the problem.
I would like to get everyone's opinions about the best option to go with?
Ultimately I love the work I have produced and it will definitely help me more in the long run. Until she pays, I can show the work to anyone as I please. The work I produced is more than the value of what she is paying.
A lot of the remote team has bailed on her because she is a problem.
Small clients like her think people will bend to her will. I want to have that fixed budget released by Upwork not just because I am owed compensation, but I want to piss her off even more. Small clients need to understand that freelancers are not slave.
She was clueless on what to do when I started to push back 🤣🤣🤣🤣. Man she gonna be pissed if I get paid the full amount and she doesn't get the project files. If she doesn't pay for my revisions, I will take the fixed budget as compensation for the video files and keeping of the projects files.
Girl gonna learn a lesson about not what happens when you don't honor your word 😁.
