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As someone looking for a ballpark estimate, be it money or time, I'm generally looking in factors of 10x. Is this 1k, 10k, 100k, 1mil, etc or on time, is this
by mey 10y ago
As someone looking for a ballpark estimate, be it money or time, I'm generally looking in factors of 10x. Is this 1k, 10k, 100k, 1mil, etc or on time, is this 1month, 6month, 1 year, 2year, etc.
I am looking for a logarithmic bucket to gauge if the approach is within my boundaries (time/money) as quickly as possible.
- wiredfool 10y agoYep. A common question I'll ask a mechanic is like: My car is making this funny noise when it frobulates. Is that likely hundreds or thousands?
- beefield 10y agoThis is what I have found quite usable approach. When the sales person has been explaining for some time how difficult it is to estimete the price, I simply ask how many zeroes he thinks the budget is going to have. This more often than not results to answer like "oh, I would think it is between 60k and 80k. It seems that most salespeople are not able to sense the difference between asking for indicative quote and trying to figure out orders of magnitudes in costs.