Originally Posted by k0nr4d

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".