Originally Posted by Village Idiot Tell me, what is the point of a fully refundable deposit?

I'll get my deposit back for the house I'm renting. What's the point? It's a sum of money which the landlord can keep if things go wrong. During the normal course of action, if (or when) I terminate the tenancy just because I no longer want to live there, I get the deposit back.

I fail to see why a designer's deposit should be any different, unless the contract says otherwise. Note that I'm talking about a deposit, and not about labour charges.

Unless I misread, there was no deposit between the topic start and the client. Just two payments one for the product and one for the time spent creating the product.