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Originally Posted by TaiGhost
I agree with some of the above. I think its better for the service provider to ask for a detailed requirement proposal. Read that and decide a rough budget. When I hear "What's your budget", right off the bat, I smell something bad.
Its like going to a car dealership and a customer asks how much a car is and the seller asks, "How much can you pay?
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There's a difference between a product and a service. A car costs what a car costs, you can check online what car X costs roughly and you can establish an approximate market value. For a service like design, coding, seo, etc since each project in individual, it requires reading through documentation, thinking how long stuff will take etc. This can take even hours on larger projects and then it turns out the guy was expecting to pay like 5% of what it will cost to do it.
I sometimes give a ballpark, and say "if that's within your budget let me know and i'll work out a more exact quote".