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Lost $250 on a logo rebrand that looked like clip art
Paid a freelance guy on Fiverr who promised a custom brand identity but he just pulled vectors from a free icon site and I caught it when I reverse image searched one of the marks.
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thomas_johnson352d ago
Wait, you actually reverse image searched and caught him red-handed? That's wild, I can't believe he didn't even bother to modify the icons a little before claiming they were custom. Some people really have no shame taking $250 for a few minutes of copy-paste work.
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felix4782d ago
Funny how that pattern shows up everywhere, not just in freelance scams. Same thing happens when people brag about "handmade" stuff on Etsy that's clearly dropshipped from AliExpress, or when a restaurant claims everything's "made from scratch" and you catch them microwaving frozen sides. Nobody bothers to hide the shortcuts anymore because they assume nobody will check. And honestly, the audacity of charging premium prices for zero effort is just insulting, isn't it?
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