Hi, I am looking for good logo designers to participate on contests on a regular basis, there will be two type of contests. Type 1) There will be only 4 designers participating, each designer should submit 4 different concepts. In this contest, the winner will get $15. Type 2) There will be only 8 designers participating, each designer should submit 4 different concepts. In this contest, the winner will get $25. Conditions: * Designers should submit their initial 2 concepts in 24 hours. * Each designer should be willing to accept 5 revisions if needed (before a winner is being selected). If you're interested PM me with your details. Regards!
First! You posted in the wrong thread... go to for hire. Second - For the designers. "IMO" this is really pathetic. Do the math on this, you'd be better off on fiver. Contest Breakdown - $15 / 4 concepts "2 within 24hours-lol". 4 divided by $15 = $3.75 per concept. Then add in your revisions IF YOU EVEN WIN! - If you win! -> That would be a total of (4) concepts (5) revisions. 9 divided by $15 = $1.66 per peice "rounded down per concept. I find it funny that you feel that you feel that you can put stipulations on a "CONTEST"! Therefore, I would think you are doing nothing but running a contest to hide the fact that you are actually selling logos to clients, then EXPLOITING DESIGNERS to get the designs to show them AND setting it up so you don't have to pay for all the designs.. You are just taking advantage of designer -> IMO this is PATHETIC! IMO - People like you need to check themselves. Be honest and state what you are really doing and don't hide behind a "CONTEST"! From the looks of your Avatar, you are a US based company - this makes this even worse!!!!!!!
You don't have to do the math for others. I already have a lot of designers interested in participating in this. If the designers themselves don't care about this, why should you bother! There already contests in DP for this price, each user submitting several concepts plus many users participating, but my contest will be at least better because i have limited the number of participants to 4 & 8.
Why bother? It's my opinion... Because I am right and the truth is that you are exploiting people. Let me ask, would you do this..? For instance, it looks as though you can code. Would you code a page x 4 variations.. 2 within 24 hours. then revise the chosen page x 5? Of course not.. We call this exploitation, plain and simple! On your site "IMO" you should state that you exploit people at "Sweat Shop" prices to ensure you are getting a good price!
I appreciate your effort & time to do the math & write a formatted post, i find one thing to be honest, that is i have posted this in the wrong category, i am moving it now. thanks for letting me know.
That's what called 'bothering', because if you see this as exploiting then you should go through each of the contests and find contests where users have submitted many concepts & even revisions after that! This is how a contest works, we set the price, if any designer interested in the price they can participate otherwise they can just move away to other contests, i am not forcing anyone. If you find the price to be too cheap, then feel free to move away, because there might be other new comers/ freshers who will be willing to do the job for this price.
I feel really sorry for you to see the your comparison seems too dumb, you're comparing coding to designing logos ??? ROFL! Are pages coded in several variations, and then revised in 24 hours!!! Comparing apples to oranges, How can you make this comparison at the first place!! Don't you know that designers normally willing to offer various concepts & revisions if necessary? Even they don't care about this, if they're satisfied with the price, then why should you care? What's your aim of writing like this buddy ?? Getting likes ?? lol
The comparison was for you as you are definitely not a designer and have no appreciation for the work that goes into design. Hit a nerve did I? Good luck with your business model!
Admin, i saw the sticky post "Jobs, employment, quotes & services belong in BST, not here." So i posted it in the contests section in BST, but now i see i can have it in the "Services" section in BST, as one has suggested it. I tried to move or edit, but not possible.
@Chapps...well said,the standard for designers on this site really has to be set higher for payouts...that is part of the problem,too many designers are participating in some of these rediculous,insulting offers in this category
Some questions should reveal the truth. - Are this prices mutually beneficial? - Why are people taking such offers? Assuming they are. (Instead of ignoring them to extinction) Seen form some angles, this is an act of mercy to pay the winner in a group of four even if top client rewards someone out of the group. My answers? There is no black or white stuff, every deal is shady or creamy in countless varieties. Looks like being exploited makes some people happy.
I see a lot of blame for the contest holder and it's mostly right but you are wrong about the price part. Low price contest are not always a bad thing, low price contest will allow the chance to beginner designers to win, Experience designer mostly won't bother to waste time and join a contest for $10-20, thus it's a good for some people nothing wrong with that. At the end of the day you mostly get what you pay for, if the quality doesn't have to be high the contest holder can pay lower price and give a chance to the beginners. But mrforum let me try to explain why you offer is ridiculous. I am working as designer and when i have some free time i take a look here in some of the contests and sometimes give it a shot, only when i have free time and no work and when the contest prize is high. You are asking designer to commit to join the contest without considering if they have free time to join or not. Putting that aside your price is low which means you tempting only designer that learn graphic design few weeks ago. And once you put that aside you are asking "4 different concepts", "5 revisions" and to submit it within "24 hours" this is just ridiculous. I am charging $40 for logo design without a contest and i don't offer as much as you request for a contest. Now even if you are a beginner designer or have a lot of free time you still have to be really stupid in order to take up your offer. I am not trying to blame you or something you or something just trying to give you the point of view of people that join the contests and try to explain why it won't work. If you want to open $15 contest here it's perfectly ok but you can't expect someone to commit to your contest when it's not sure they will win it.