A Fair Warning to All Designers

Warning to all Designers here,

If some designer/design company contacted you to outsource a project, be sure to ask at-least a deposit or down-payment prior to start or your time and effort may all go to waste.

as I have experience this, this designer/design company here at talk freelance contacted me to do a PSD to WP conversion, at first we had agreed to a specific price and then he gave me a GO signal to start converting the PSD to WP, after I'm done with the conversion he then told me some reason about his client is unable to pay... days became weeks, weeks became month then after 2 months still no payment and guess what more reasons that his client was unable to pay...blah blah blah...

Lesson Learned... Just hoping no one will experience what I've been through.