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The photographer has gone about this the wrong way - the cost is actually his experience and time. It's like the 'Picasso Principle' where a woman approached P
by digitalclubb 15y ago
The photographer has gone about this the wrong way - the cost is actually his experience and time.
It's like the 'Picasso Principle' where a woman approached Picasso for a sketch, he did something in 5 minutes and quoted her $10,000.
She said 'it only took you 5 minutes' and his response was 'no, it took me a lifetime'.
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- slavak 15y agoThis reminds me of... Tapping with a hammer ......................... $ 10.00 Knowing where to tap .......................... $990.00
- josefresco 15y agoThe story is much longer... it involved a creaky wooden floor and two contractors. One quotes say $1000 and 7 days to fix, tears the whole thing up and fixes it. The other quotes $1000 pulls out his hammer and fixes the creaky floor with one nail in a few seconds. Both fixed the problem, but the expert isn't worth any less than the guy who put in tons of man-hours.
- gmac 15y agoIn fact, the expert is worth a lot more, because he saves you 7 days of disruption.
- JoeAltmaier 15y agoActually you fix a creaky floor with a screw, not a nail. It creaks because somebody used a nail in the first place. Just sayin.
- dspillett 15y agoI'd heard this as someone who fixed a design at the blueprints stage, charging £1,000 for what amounted to a few pencil marks. When asked for a break down the following was given: £0.10 for materials (the pencil), £999.90 for knowing where to make the marks and why.
- hessenwolf 15y agoIt's like the guy who charged a thousand bucks to fix the machine by turning a screw; 1 buck for turning the screw, and 999 for knowing which screw to turn.
- kbutler 15y agoI like all the variants. I heard the unnamed engineer version. http://www.snopes.com/business/genius/where.asp http://www.snopes.com/business/genius/where.asp