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Originally Posted by sonofsam
People in here are acting like they have 30 messages a day for their services. It takes 30 seconds to give a rough ballpark of your pricing to let the buyer know your rates.
If it’s that big of a problem that your “time is being wasted” you can create something you can copy and paste whenever the topic comes up. With examples of previous projects, scope of work, and pricing. Then they can see if you are within their budget.
Whenever I hire people for anything from construction, architects, trades people - if they start off with asking my budget I feel they are basically asking me how much they can get out of me regardless of what the job/service actually costs.
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It's really not like that at all. For programming I can tell roughly how long a small project will take and give a ballpark or even a firm quote, but once you get into a larger project like someone approaching you for a cam site or an onlyfans clone or something
and have like 30-40 pages of specifications written up (or worse, you don't and have to figure out a million questions to ask) the quote does take some time. Factor in that sometimes the specifications write something like 'messaging system' and you don't know if they are expecting a simple text chat or a clone of whatsapp.
As we all know, time is money - if I spend a day analyzing some long-ass specifications, quote $50k and it turns out the guy was expecting to spend $1500 max, then that's a day I could have spent doing something else.
As I wrote earlier - if someone comes to me with a larger project and it's someone I don't know (so not previous clients or "established porn people") then I will often give a wide ballpark range to see if we're even on the same planet let alone neighborhood.