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Originally Posted by The Porn Nerd
I hate it when people say "You can afford it. If you can't afford $25...." blah blah. We can use that argument for ANY business that raises prices and we, as the customers, are supposed to just take it like a little bitch? No. Maybe that's YOUR stance but it's not mine.
So if hosting, domains, traffic, content and other aspects of this business start charging $25 monthly fees just for the privilege of using their product or service your ok with that? On TOP of what you are already paying?
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It's simple, to me UpWork presents value for money, a maximum $25 monthly increase won't stop me from using the service.
If you don't like it then vote with your feet and go do business elsewhere, although I doubt you will find a better outsourcing platform. You obviously chose UpWork for some reason - if those reasons don't stack up anymore then nobody is forcing you to use them.
It's a fact of life that businesses sometimes raise prices, the market usually works this out in the end - if the price rises are untenable to the majority of customers and they go elsewhere then that's the market at work.
In any case, with outsourcing you have a direct business expense, so just deduct it like you would any other expense. If you need to pass a small increase in pricing to your customers, if you don't want to absorb the whole cost yourself, then do that.
Whinging on GFY isn't going to change UpWork's new transaction pricing, I am sure they have done enough research to know that the customer base will just absorb it.