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Originally Posted by Paul Markham
At the moment content is not selling, exclusive or non exclusive so there are some good deals to be picked up. My advice is decide if you want content to fill the site or content to make the site. Give you content provider all the information you can and a fair price to shoot it. Tell him what you will pay and don't haggle like a Arab at a flea market.
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Hey Paul, this right here is the reason I am asking the question.
I want to offer a fair rate.
It may turn out that the current going rate for the type of content I would like is lower than what I'd be willing to pay. In that case, awesome and I'll just select a rate which is the high side of average and that will be the rate.
It may turn out that the current going rate for the type of content I would like is higher than my budget could easily do. In that case, I'd either be aware that I might have to do more post work on what I got in-house or whatever.
Please don't patronize me on the fact that it is easy to run up a shoot budget fast. I have personally done photography and/or writing for most all the big adult publishers including Playboy, Penthouse, Hustler, Crescent, Magna, and AVN. I know what they all used to pay, but I don't actually know what the current going rates tend to be and these things, as you surely know, change.
With your experience, I'm pretty sure you could, for example, ballpark that a babe shoot with x, y, and z for location and makeup, including x# pictures and x amount of video with x retouching and x for the final edit would run the client around x and so. Instead you whined about your expenses, which I would be totally interested in, if you were the producer on something I was personally shooting. Not so interesting from a client perspective unless the point is to get someone to stop asking for a freebie. Which I wasn't.
I could just make up rates that I think I could do a job for and pay that, but, if possible, I want to make sure what I am offering is in line with industry standards or at least be aware if it is not. So do you want to assist in expressing what would be fair and standard or do you want to complain that clients don't care what is fair and standard when you won't tell them?
What can I say to facilitate an answer to my question?