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Customer Tries To Insult Their Way Into A Painting Discount With Bizarre Message

Updated September 8, 2021

At some point in life, it's almost a guarantee that somebody will try to get you to give them something for nothing.

And unfortunately, this situation goes from an occasional brush with disrespect to a daily occurrence when you're a freelancer in a creative field. Because even when they aren't trying to get away with paying you "in exposure," it's clear that a lot of people have no idea what kind of work goes into bringing their desires to life.

But while it's hardly uncommon for potential clients to want to lowball artists, it's pretty baffling that the person we're about to discuss thought they'd get anywhere with their weirdly insulting proposition.

Although they didn't link to the piece in question, one parent shared a message their daughter received about a painting she apparently posted to Reddit.

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At first, this message starts off promisingly enough, with the person saying they loved the daughter's painting.

So much so, in fact, that they want to buy it.

However, they didn't even make it through the second sentence of their message before things started to go awry.

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At first, they simply say that they'd want the artist to change the sky in her painting as they apparently didn't like it in the original.

In and of itself, this isn't necessarily a deal-breaker. As someone who has also commissioned art, artists can be pretty flexible and they'll usually give you a sense of how the price and timeline of the project will change to meet your request.

However, this potential customer not only didn't give them a chance to discuss these matters, but contradicted their initial statement before they even sent their message.

As they said, "I offer you $10 which is much better than you can get for your bad art anywhere else."

Not only is there no way that price is worth it to the artist, but why did they say they loved her art and wanted to buy it if it's apparently so bad?

They also wanted the painting to be a hand-painted original and not a "shirty" copy, whatever that means.

And just in case this proposition wasn't already attractive enough, the person said, "I will pay in cash when you deliver the painting to my house."

So not only do they want original, hand-painted work for just $10, but they expect the artist to hand-deliver it to them.

Usually, choosing beggars like this person wait until their initial offer is rejected before they start insulting the art they wanted. At least their decision to speedrun to this part means the artist didn't waste too much of her time before passing on this totally generous offer.

h/t: Reddit | Independent_Heart_15

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