Freelancing: how to negotiate payment without voice communication?

Question

Freelance

Another person lives in the same house with me, who should not know about my income. How to negotiate with freelance customers about payment without voice communication? Just close in the room will not work, because absolutely everything is heard through the door. Going somewhere for a while and agreeing is also not an option, since the issue of payment can be discussed more than once. You can discuss in the chat, but suddenly the client wants to discuss on Skype and I will have to tell you how much it costs. Now I'm just planning to do freelancing, so I don't know how the negotiations on payment are being conducted. I will be grateful for help.

Answer 1

I always discuss payment by text ; I have
not met a single client who would like to discuss it in voice, why the hell is he?

Answer 2

You can't sew conversations into action. Therefore, only correspondence. Only email is desirable, because the chat is very distracting and involves empty communication in monosyllabic phrases, which can also be understood in two ways.
Show the screen on Skype? It is also not necessary - a screenshot and in a letter.
And if the customer cannot explain his thoughts except by voice, then there will be almost one hundred percent problems during the delivery of the project. Here I didn’t want it that way, here you didn’t understand me at all, but I didn’t say this, and in general I said that I couldn’t pay so much. Here's 100 rubles for you, you haven't earned more.

Answer 3

Now I'm just planning to do freelancing, so I don't know how the negotiations on payment are being conducted.

The use of communication tools is only your choice. I manage by mail for negotiations both on tasks and on payment.

Answer 4

You have a very interesting approach to solving self-made problems in the form of "how to deceive the customer if he wants to talk to me."
Those. Initially, you are already building relationships based on "sipping".
It is telepathically clear that you are going to add age to yourself if asked.
Didn’t you think to just immediately indicate “I can’t communicate with my voice”?

Answer 5

From experience - what is written with a pen cannot be cut down with an ax. Having all the correspondence, there will be an argument at controversial points. Or record the conversation on a voice recorder))

Answer 6

Yes, correspondence is very important, be sure to keep it where the history of communication is saved.
Duplicate all important points with text. The words will be forgotten, but the text will remain.
I have freelance clients with whom I have never called at all and this is normal.
The price must also be sent in text so that you can then find everything in the correspondence.
And in general, do not call it right away, but first think well.

Answer 7

write to the customer that you are dumb

Answer 8

start smoking, go call the common balcony

Answer 9

It's better to speak in voice. and confirm by email.
go to a cafe, discuss in a voice, business something. once a month you can freeze.

Answer 10

Without a written contract, verbal-soapy agreements have no legal force, if they want to throw it, they will throw it, it applies to both one and the other side (this is in addition to "Having all the correspondence, there will be an argument in case of contentious issues. Well, or record the conversation on a voice recorder") . For such agreements, it remains to hope for decency. From experience I’ll say that they received nonsense like “I was not myself when I spoke” or like “you couldn’t convince me”)