"It's not an appropriate payment for two days work." This is based on an assumption that there's only one (high) standard of work. For a kid trying to get one

"It's not an appropriate payment for two days work." This is based on an assumption that there's only one (high) standard of work. For a kid trying to get one of his classmates to do his homework assignment for him, that doesn't sound too far out of line for "my first web project" level of quality. You pay chickenfeed you get chickens. Sometimes for sound business reasons or real world issues you want chickens, not a soaring eagle. The business world is ending a cycle of outsourcing where the mantra was "who cares about code quality, as long as its cheap".