PSA: That flat rate for a logo design cost me 40 hours of revisions on a single file

Back in 2019 I quoted a flat $500 for a restaurant logo and ended up redoing the fork icon 22 times over three weeks, which taught me to always cap revisions in the contract-has anyone else gotten trapped by a simple project that turned into a nightmare?

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scott.alex1d ago

Oh man, this hits way too close to home. I once quoted a local coffee shop $350 for a simple badge logo with a coffee cup and leaf. That "simple" badge turned into 18 rounds of them asking to move the leaf 2 pixels to the left, then back to the right, then make it slightly greener, then less green. I ended up spending almost a full week on it for what should have been a 2 hour job. Flat rates are dangerous unless you set hard limits. Now I put a specific number of revisions right in the contract and charge per extra round after that. Learned that lesson the hard way.

haydenhayes22h ago

18 revisions for $350? Bro you got robbed.