Opinion on hiring a designer

[nyunyu]

Hi, I would to know how long do you ask your customer to wait for a design to finish?
On 31 November 2007, I hired someone to design a website of mine. Nothing to do with vb though, just a normal business driven website.

I pay him USD$275 for a design which for me is good because I think its affordable. But, its been a while without progress. Although he did promise me to keep me updates, but there is none..he did come out with a design but I asked him to make a few ammendment. Only that he send me a psd of the layout and ask me to help him edit it..

I have not enough time, working in real life, maintaining forum, now to edit my supposed to be edited layout by myself? come on!

So, what do you think of this?