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Ask them what their budget is. I was in similar situation to you, and because the work is easy for us it's easy to undervalue ourselves, but ask them what budg
by groffee 4y ago
Ask them what their budget is.
I was in similar situation to you, and because the work is easy for us it's easy to undervalue ourselves, but ask them what budget they're working with and go from there!
- PaulHoule 4y agoAsk them what it is worth, not what they think they can pay. What is the dollar cost of their site being down?
- mikebos 4y agoThat's basically extortion. If I applied your logic to a car, my next repair bill would equal a new car.
- PaulHoule 4y agoIt would be extortion if you caused the downtime.
- janetacarr 4y ago> That's basically extortion. If I applied your logic to a car, my next repair bill would equal a new car. No it won't. Just based on this HN comment, it's obvious you don't value your car like a new one, and you will take it to another car repair place even if you've gone to your 'extorter' car repair for 20 years.
- AlexITC 4y agoThis sounds like "what's dollar-cost to you not getting the urgent surgery today?" While some customers can agree, it just does not seem correct, at least, not something I'd do.
- muzani 4y agoAgreed with this. I have never bought anything from a person who asked us what our budget is. We had a situation where we were evaluating several crappy providers and a really good one. The really good one's price was "call us for pricing". We just mentally translated to say "basically all the money we have" and went with a crappy provider.
- AlexITC 4y agoI will certainly do this next time, like another hn'r suggested, billing for at least 1 day seems worth it too. Thanks.