[thelist] re:site price help
Lisa Bartholomew
lisabee_150 at hotmail.com
Mon Jul 17 21:40:47 CDT 2000
Can someone explain to me why members of the web community do not want to
discuss the prices that they charge for their skills? I have noticed on
numerous occassions when anyone posts a question about a price including
myself that the response is often nil or one suggestion that is so airy
fairy it doesn't answer the question anyway. Everyone on this list is so
willing to share their knowledge and their code why not their approx prices?
I know that people don't want others from undercutting them but for newbies
finding out if you are charging the correct amount is so difficult. The only
way i find out is to ask members of the public what they paid for their
site. Is there some law i don't know about that prevents you from saying
look at this site i made i charged xxxx amount? I would be willing to tell
people what i charged for a site, but this doesn't seem to be the norm. It
would be a help to those of us who have to design a site for someone in a
different country where we have no idea of price. This happened to me this
week i just put in a quote for a job and now i find out it is way too cheap.
For me in Bangkok the quote was more than i would normally charge, but for
the guys in New York they are probably getting it at half the price they
would pay a US firm and you say we are running a cartel? I think not. No-one
sent me any advice about pricing in the US so i have inadvertially just
slashed your prices through my own ignorance.
Do we have to do this sort of thing off list or can we be more open about
it? Do people want to be more open about it?
Lisa
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