Comments on: Dear Craigslist

By: D-signer.

D-signer. — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 19:09:36 +0000

Sitepoints design contests are now named 99designs.
Before the ‘contestholders’ could hold contest for free, they
had to pay the winners ofcourse (if they did) but now the site charges 39 credits (1 credit is 1 dollar) and the contestholders are now less friendly, because they paid I guess, but not me, but the site, so what do I care?
And after their initial 39 credits they also pay the winner ofcourse.(if they do, I don`t know). I did it for a while just to see how it works. Your idea’s get stolen and used in other designcontests, or even the same. The ‘contestholders’ sometimes even tell the designers that they like aome part of one design and ask other designers to follow that, yeah, like we are a designteam there where they can pick design parts.
So I finally quit my experiment today, locally I make some money now, which is more then I made there, which was , nothing.(well i am not a great designer, but my idea’s got nicked anyway. Which pissed me off)

By: Ix

Ix — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 17:24:20 +0000

Rus, I fail to see where you’re coming from without links to places where the writer of this article or the members here posted an add(s) on CraigsList expecting musical work for free.

I also believe that like me, everyone here takes the general stance that no one should work for free unless it’s working Pro Bono as their own choice and that no one should be forced/expected to do free work.

I don’t see where the article even mentions not paying musicians.

As I don’t have the time or energy to search CraigsList myself it’s going to be up to you to step up to the plate with evidence for your claims.

-Ix

As a side note, how does one become a member/get a password to the older content? I don’t see any “register here” place on the site, but maybe I’m just blind while searching for something once again.

By: rus

rus — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 21:50:18 +0000

wait, so let me get this straight?
either these ads you post on craigslist are a joke to make a point?
or you are stupid enough to feel that musicians should work for free but not illustrators?
guess what, you CAN actually get paid work with visual design work
very few musicians ever get paid more than gas money and a couple free beers
this includes many of your favorite artists

everyone should get paid
every
one

By: cat

cat — Thu, 10 May 2007 11:53:24 +0000

Thanks for your comments Rachel, they are appreciated.

By: rachel

rachel — Mon, 07 May 2007 20:04:52 +0000

Just want to thank you for this site and everyone’s comments.
As a free-lance artist, I have wasted way too many hours dealing with disrespectful people trying to get a deal.

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station » Blog Archive » Dear Craigslist — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 14:51:48 +0000

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» Dear Craigslist — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 12:40:51 +0000

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