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Def CON: Budged it $200K for 20K badges. EE: It will cost us $300K to make those Def CON: Ok too bad, see you around. EE: No no, what I meant to say is 'it w
by rasz 2y ago
Def CON: Budged it $200K for 20K badges.
EE: It will cost us $300K to make those
Def CON: Ok too bad, see you around.
EE: No no, what I meant to say is 'it would cost us $300K, but we will gladly do for $200K, we will "discount" our work.
Def CON: Dont care about your internal accounting, can you do it for $200K or not?
EE: Where do I sign up?
...time passes...
EE: keeps trying to send invoices totaling $300K
- kelnos 2y ago> EE: keeps trying to send invoices totaling $300K Where are you getting that, though? EE says: > Once a month, we billed for our work and submitted an updated estimated per badge final cost - committing as costs built to discount our work as necessary in order to hit DEFCON’s per unit cost targets. And: > We billed DEFCON for our most recent work, discounting our labor by 25% in order to meet the agreed upon targets. So it sounds like they were billing with an expected total of $200k, not anything higher. Perhaps they were listing in their invoice all the actual costs, but then had a "discount" line item to bring the cost back down, but if so... so what?