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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".
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Totally agree that giving a ballpark and asking if you should work it out in more detail is the much better approach. Smart way to see if you are on the same page, without seeming shady.
I think advertising and sponsorships are the place where salespeople are worst with this. It is not a car where the shopper probably already ballpark knows the price, nor is it necessarily a super customized service. So buyers know they could be getting a drastically different price than the next buyer, which is stressful and leaves folks very attuned to any hint they are getting an extra bad price.