Originally Posted by ghostrider
Is this right?
A friend asks if you'd finish a quilt she started.
You give her an estimate, discuss what she wants, and start working on it.
You then give her a firm price of $250 because you will have to buy backing.
She balks and is rude to you, in your opinion (we cannot hear her tone of voice remember, it could easily have been sarcasm).
Now you are confiscating her quilt, plan to sell it and keep the proceeds for yourself.
Is that all a friendship is worth to you? Nine hours of doing something that you say you love to do anyway?
WRONG!!! Hindsight did not charge more than the estimate she quoted. The quilt is hers until/unless the Deadbeat pays up. If you took your car into a repair shop, and then refused to pay the bill, you would not get your car back, and the law would not give it back to you.
And her words were very rude, regardless of the tone. She could have said it with sugar dripping from the words, and it would still have been rude, sarcastic, and uncalled for. I love my job, but I for darned sure am not going to do it for free. Especially when a fee-for-service has already been discussed and agreed on. With friends like that, you don't need enemies.