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Maybe, but would you hire those contractors? Do you suppose that kind of bad reputation is a good thing, or something a freelancer should ignore?

Almost every one of my customers tells me about the last people they hired and how they didn’t communicate, didn’t deliver on time, kept increasing the price. Way more incompetent and unethical freelancers out there than fraudulent customers in my experience.

I’ve never had a customer stiff me, but I have said no to customers who seem toxic. No amount of legal help can fix that.