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Kiopa_Matt · 03-06-2011, 06:59 PM

Bwah, I'd say $5K is ridiculously expensive, but then again, perception is value. I've seen "high-end" design firms take on a 9K project, and six weeks later produced something you'd expect an $8/hour Indian guy to do in a week. Then I've seen freelancer designers produce amazing designs for $1500 - $2000K.

With my previous company, our software sold for $1700/license, which I thought was a fair deal. New owner takes over, jacks the price up to $25,000, and begins making sales that week. Fuck! Obviously I was doing something wrong.

I've seen companies selling an Access database, and some MS Word templates for $30,000 before, and they would make sales since it was an old and established company, even though their technology was 15 years out of date. Seen that type of thing time and time again.

Perception is value. There's a couple good reasons to charge extortionate rates. It weeds out lots of idiot clients who are generally not worth it, because unless you were born into it, there's a reason you have that kind of money to spend. That, and people will trust you more, and question you less, because if you're charging that kind of money, obviously you must know what you're doing, right?

03-06-2011, 06:59 PM
Kiopa_Matt Confirmed User Industry Role: Join Date: Oct 2007 Posts: 1,448	Bwah, I'd say $5K is ridiculously expensive, but then again, perception is value. I've seen "high-end" design firms take on a 9K project, and six weeks later produced something you'd expect an $8/hour Indian guy to do in a week. Then I've seen freelancer designers produce amazing designs for $1500 - $2000K. With my previous company, our software sold for $1700/license, which I thought was a fair deal. New owner takes over, jacks the price up to $25,000, and begins making sales that week. Fuck! Obviously I was doing something wrong. I've seen companies selling an Access database, and some MS Word templates for $30,000 before, and they would make sales since it was an old and established company, even though their technology was 15 years out of date. Seen that type of thing time and time again. Perception is value. There's a couple good reasons to charge extortionate rates. It weeds out lots of idiot clients who are generally not worth it, because unless you were born into it, there's a reason you have that kind of money to spend. That, and people will trust you more, and question you less, because if you're charging that kind of money, obviously you must know what you're doing, right? __________________ xMarkPro -- Ultimate Blog Network Management Streamline your marketing operations. Centralize management of domains, pages, Wordpress blogs, sponsors, link codes, media items, sales and traffic statistics, plus more!