A dear friend of mine; Muid Latif, related his horrible recent experience dealing with a third-party for a web project they are working on. In the Malaysia web design and development industry, filled with freelancers derived from students to working professionals there are third-parties whom hire them. Some of these third-parties have no sense of professionalism and worst of all, they have no respect for you.
Muid’s experience in summary is he was given the commission to design a website template for Dewan Bahasa Pustaka by a third-party. A commission is not a recognition but merely an opportunity to be involved in something larger than what you might have expected. In Muid’s case here, I would say he was rather badly taken advantage of.