Ah, the age old unpaid service request. I find this very similar to the designer's issue of spec work in the design community - http://www.no-spec.com/faq/ htt

Ah, the age old unpaid service request. I find this very similar to the designer's issue of spec work in the design community - http://www.no-spec.com/faq/ http://www.no-spec.com/faq/ The best response I've heard to the spec work issue is making an analogy to other service trades. E.g. if you wanted a bathroom in your house re-modeled, would you pay the contractor only if you liked the job he did? Maybe we could parallel that to this issue - "if my trade was carpentry instead of computer ______, would you feel comfortable asking me to make you wood furniture?"