Comments on: The 50 dollar logo experiment http://www.logodesignlove.com/the-50-dollar-logo-experiment For logo designers and all who love logos. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 19:48:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Mike http://www.logodesignlove.com/the-50-dollar-logo-experiment/comment-page-1#comment-9384 Mike Sat, 14 Nov 2009 06:19:07 +0000 http://www.logodesignlove.com/?p=204#comment-9384 Thanks for the comment max. Well i don't think it's abuse! Thanks for the comment max. Well i don’t think it’s abuse!

]]> By: max http://www.logodesignlove.com/the-50-dollar-logo-experiment/comment-page-1#comment-9328 max Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:56:40 +0000 http://www.logodesignlove.com/?p=204#comment-9328 I didn't like the 50 dollar logo experiment. I'm not a designer who would work for a company like that, but I still feel that it was a morally wrong "experiment". I wrote my own comments on that website. I know, its supposed to be light-hearted. I just saw it from the poor designer's view (who had no contact with the client), and realized that the client was being unrealistically hard to please. That wasn't an experiment, it was an abuse. We all know it was crappy design. So what was the point of his experiment? To show customers that if they pay a low price they'll get crap, thus steering them towards good designers' services? Lots of people simply can't afford good design. People really should try to invest in good design, but a lot of them just wont. These are the same people who would have been thrilled with the 1st round received from 50dollarlogo.com. I firmly believe that a lot of people "like" bad design because they see it around them all the time. I don't think there is any way to inform people enough to get them to stop buying crappy design. If only we could teach everyone the golden rule of design: Fast, Cheap, Good. Choose 2. http://freelanceswitch.com/money/fast-good-cheap-pricing-freelance-work/ The few people who know what design is worth are the ones who make good clients for good designers. I didn’t like the 50 dollar logo experiment. I’m not a designer who would work for a company like that, but I still feel that it was a morally wrong “experiment”. I wrote my own comments on that website. I know, its supposed to be light-hearted. I just saw it from the poor designer’s view (who had no contact with the client), and realized that the client was being unrealistically hard to please. That wasn’t an experiment, it was an abuse.

We all know it was crappy design. So what was the point of his experiment? To show customers that if they pay a low price they’ll get crap, thus steering them towards good designers’ services? Lots of people simply can’t afford good design. People really should try to invest in good design, but a lot of them just wont. These are the same people who would have been thrilled with the 1st round received from 50dollarlogo.com. I firmly believe that a lot of people “like” bad design because they see it around them all the time.

I don’t think there is any way to inform people enough to get them to stop buying crappy design. If only we could teach everyone the golden rule of design:
Fast, Cheap, Good. Choose 2.
http://freelanceswitch.com/money/fast-good-cheap-pricing-freelance-work/

The few people who know what design is worth are the ones who make good clients for good designers.

]]> By: Mike http://www.logodesignlove.com/the-50-dollar-logo-experiment/comment-page-1#comment-8196 Mike Sat, 26 Sep 2009 18:07:49 +0000 http://www.logodesignlove.com/?p=204#comment-8196 Hi there, Working for a cheap logo design company is really hilarious! trust me guys. i had to work with basic designers who dont have any idea about logos! everything is like a mess + most of the clients do not have any idea what they are asking about. It is totally crazy! deal with uneducated designers, crazy boss and uneducated clients (I'm not sayin all clients). most of the logos used in the portfolio are copyrighted and designers copy design from shutterstock.com or some clip art + most of those clients prefer those types of logo instead of clean and professional one. :( People if you really need a nice logo then please dont jump into those cheap design site!! and please dont let any designer force to design a LOGO in peanuts' price! Hi there,

Working for a cheap logo design company is really hilarious! trust me guys. i had to work with basic designers who dont have any idea about logos!

everything is like a mess + most of the clients do not have any idea what they are asking about.

It is totally crazy! deal with uneducated designers, crazy boss and uneducated clients (I’m not sayin all clients). most of the logos used in the portfolio are copyrighted and designers copy design from shutterstock.com or some clip art + most of those clients prefer those types of logo instead of clean and professional one. :(

People if you really need a nice logo then please dont jump into those cheap design site!! and please dont let any designer force to design a LOGO in peanuts’ price!

]]> By: Keith Barber http://www.logodesignlove.com/the-50-dollar-logo-experiment/comment-page-1#comment-8056 Keith Barber Thu, 17 Sep 2009 09:27:18 +0000 http://www.logodesignlove.com/?p=204#comment-8056 With respect to people who use/have used the 50 dollar, if you value design and the image your business projects why are you even considering spending such a small amount of money in the 1st place. Their portfolio is terrible with nothing that a 5 year old couldn't do with basic software on a home pc. As I have said before if there is credible work on the website then it is done by a respectable design agency and not by 50 dollar. With respect to people who use/have used the 50 dollar, if you value design and the image your business projects why are you even considering spending such a small amount of money in the 1st place.

Their portfolio is terrible with nothing that a 5 year old couldn’t do with basic software on a home pc. As I have said before if there is credible work on the website then it is done by a respectable design agency and not by 50 dollar.

]]> By: Anna http://www.logodesignlove.com/the-50-dollar-logo-experiment/comment-page-1#comment-8052 Anna Thu, 17 Sep 2009 03:38:20 +0000 http://www.logodesignlove.com/?p=204#comment-8052 50 dollar logo should improve their communication with customers. Forget about several revisions. They will never listen to you. I could not communicate with them even for the first revision. They will keep sending you revisions without listening you. So after 2 revisions of their own ways, I just gave up communicating. I lost 50 dollars. Do not bother cut and paste logos to communicate. They will never read. What kind of customer service is this? Is it because they are out of U.S.? I hate 50 dollar logos. Their web site portfolio looks good. Sounds great that you can get a logo with 50 dollars and endless revision. They will do it endlessly without never listening you. They will keep collecting money from oversees without satifying coustumers. They should be out of business now. Never ever use 50 dollar logo. 50 dollar logo should improve their communication with customers. Forget about several revisions. They will never listen to you. I could not communicate with them even for the first revision. They will keep sending you revisions without listening you. So after 2 revisions of their own ways, I just gave up communicating. I lost 50 dollars. Do not bother cut and paste logos to communicate. They will never read. What kind of customer service is this? Is it because they are out of U.S.? I hate 50 dollar logos. Their web site portfolio looks good. Sounds great that you can get a logo with 50 dollars and endless revision. They will do it endlessly without never listening you. They will keep collecting money from oversees without satifying coustumers. They should be out of business now. Never ever use 50 dollar logo.

]]> By: brad crowley http://www.logodesignlove.com/the-50-dollar-logo-experiment/comment-page-1#comment-7007 brad crowley Mon, 27 Jul 2009 23:10:26 +0000 http://www.logodesignlove.com/?p=204#comment-7007 Hired 50 Dollar Logo to design a logo and a business card for me. I paid them $79 and started receiving terrible logos. I didn't like any of them. You could tell that they were just cutting and pasting from some really bad gallery. Finally I picked a logo, even though I really didn't care for it and they sent me the logo in several formats. All of the logos were extremely low resolution. I couldn't use any of the formats for anything. I tried to use the logo for letterhead, faxes, emails, etc, and the quality was so poor that the logo wasn't even readable. I had several tech support people look at it (not 50 dollar logo) and they said that the logo was too low res. I contacted 50 dollar logo and they tried to fix it, but could not. THEY SENT ME THREE EMAILS that said they will give me my money back, and they never did. Their design work is crap, they are extremely low tech and low res, and they are crooks. Hired 50 Dollar Logo to design a logo and a business card for me. I paid them $79 and started receiving terrible logos. I didn’t like any of them. You could tell that they were just cutting and pasting from some really bad gallery. Finally I picked a logo, even though I really didn’t care for it and they sent me the logo in several formats. All of the logos were extremely low resolution. I couldn’t use any of the formats for anything. I tried to use the logo for letterhead, faxes, emails, etc, and the quality was so poor that the logo wasn’t even readable. I had several tech support people look at it (not 50 dollar logo) and they said that the logo was too low res. I contacted 50 dollar logo and they tried to fix it, but could not. THEY SENT ME THREE EMAILS that said they will give me my money back, and they never did. Their design work is crap, they are extremely low tech and low res, and they are crooks.

]]> By: Chapter 5 | How low can you go? My search for a cheap logo, great pizza and world peace. « re:design http://www.logodesignlove.com/the-50-dollar-logo-experiment/comment-page-1#comment-6335 Chapter 5 | How low can you go? My search for a cheap logo, great pizza and world peace. « re:design Fri, 15 May 2009 13:14:36 +0000 http://www.logodesignlove.com/?p=204#comment-6335 [...] you won’t get with crowdsourcing (via Quipsologies). And after I started this, I discovered Logo Design Love’s article on the $50 logo experiment (with perhaps with an even cooler business name, Cheeses of [...]

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]]> By: John http://www.logodesignlove.com/the-50-dollar-logo-experiment/comment-page-1#comment-6048 John Wed, 15 Apr 2009 17:28:03 +0000 http://www.logodesignlove.com/?p=204#comment-6048 I don't have the time to get into the whole story, but we ended up losing about $60 to this operation as well. Their process is abysmal, work is low quality and the guarantee is worthless. BBB can't even get a response from them and have closed my complaint, merely noting their non-response. Bottom line: steer clear! I don’t have the time to get into the whole story, but we ended up losing about $60 to this operation as well. Their process is abysmal, work is low quality and the guarantee is worthless. BBB can’t even get a response from them and have closed my complaint, merely noting their non-response. Bottom line: steer clear!

]]> By: Stephen Ruggieri http://www.logodesignlove.com/the-50-dollar-logo-experiment/comment-page-1#comment-6001 Stephen Ruggieri Thu, 09 Apr 2009 07:06:24 +0000 http://www.logodesignlove.com/?p=204#comment-6001 Hey LDL, Thanks a lot for hosting this great site, it's very helpful. A friend of mine actually got some not so bad logo designs from 50DL which prompted me to try them out. I ordered the 69 dollar package. I'm a Reiki Master, and although I didn't give them design ideas of what I like, I was very specific as to the feel and a very detailed description of what Reiki is. I told them to lean more towards an Asian/Tibetan/ Modern feel. It really was as if they didn't even read or understand the details of what I had written. The logos that came back were very amateur and in seeing that I just told them there is no need for me to waste their time or vice versa. Please refund. I have created logos for friends that have been kick ass, but as we all know, it does take time and you must really know and understand what the client wants as well as their personality. Branding is nothing to play around with and if you are in it to play with the big fish, well, ya gotta have big bait. Good luck to all. Blessings, Stephen Hey LDL,

Thanks a lot for hosting this great site, it’s very helpful.
A friend of mine actually got some not so bad logo designs from 50DL which prompted me to try them out. I ordered the 69 dollar package. I’m a Reiki Master, and although I didn’t give them design ideas of what I like, I was very specific as to the feel and a very detailed description of what Reiki is. I told them to lean more towards an Asian/Tibetan/ Modern feel. It really was as if they didn’t even read or understand the details of what I had written. The logos that came back were very amateur and in seeing that I just told them there is no need for me to waste their time or vice versa. Please refund. I have created logos for friends that have been kick ass, but as we all know, it does take time and you must really know and understand what the client wants as well as their personality. Branding is nothing to play around with and if you are in it to play with the big fish, well, ya gotta have big bait.
Good luck to all.

Blessings,
Stephen

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