[damoncali]

While I see what you're getting at, I make a lot of my income from invoices between $400 and $2000. The smaller ones are usually the most profitable, by a lot.

I've also never had anything even remotely approaching this sort of problem. It's jus so easily avoided by insisting on the basics of communication.

So I think you've got it backwards. People willing and able to work for $78k invoices have probably figured this out at some point (either the easy way or the hard way). People on the low end may or may not have. That's not a reason to avoid the low end. It's a reason to figure this stuff out.