worth 6,000 bucks?
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- applepirate0
i just got back from a meeting with jean(the client) her husband(my friend of 10+years)and the salesman/owner of the web "design" firm.
they guys were all on 5 year old dells surfing penny arcade in the ikea furnished make shift looking 800sq. ft office....
it was a battle of the twits with these guys all i wanted to know was "can you incorporate my redesign into your existing content implementation" and all the salesguy kept repeating was "we have thousands of man hours in this how are we gonna pay our developers for the work that you are no longer happy with"
so.... end of story is like this, im taking over the design/programming of the site and they will be taking care of the shopping cart. their template is gonna be shoved back into their folder and used on some other unsuspecting client that doesnt know what questions to ask or what is available in todays web3.0(yeah i said 3.0 deal with it) world... we have moved past thinking that 2Advanced style shit is the "future of webdesign" and realize even flash needs to be SEO(GAIA frameworks and the like help enormously) these guys just arent capable or willing to do that style of work no matter what the cost. Hack-TML shops like this just make me hate the title "web designer" that gets tossed around onto template editors.
fuck this is wearing me out. thanks for your responses... they were more helpful for my frame of mind then i could have imagined.
- you're..... welcome?Gucci
- I feel cold.pylon
- "Thousands of man hours"? Are they kidding? And for $6000. So what, >$6 an hour?ETM
- yeah he literaly said "we have thousands of hours into this"applepirate
- version30
pirate is very fitting for you
- version30
i. am. laughing. my. ass. off.
i knew free was still over paying
- applepirate0
whoa.. tons of typo's cant wait to get flamed for my typing errors! :)
- Doorman0
This site is SHITE....the guy must be a real Douchebag
- visionary0
6k for that piece of crap? highway robbery
- brandelec0
how much would you charge him?
- Gucci0
I think Jean isn't half bad looking.
- I'd give her a discount.Gucci
- for 62years old... any one would be lucky to have the looks she's got. damn fine looking older ladyapplepirate
- version30
http://actionbasedlearning.com/b…
this is where it gets out of hand, obviously no idea what is going on
- ETM0
There's an 'Order Products' section that's not currently working. Is there going to be an eCommerce setup as part of the fee?
- version30
so you're taking money out of someone else's pocket? i can't decide which of you two is the more shrewd businessman
- its a family friend that i have known for years... and i feel she is getting ripped off! wouldnt you do the same?applepirate
- if they're so friendly, why didn't they come to you first?version3
- visionary0
^99 bucks out of the box shopping cart
- version30
th'awesome! http://actionbasedlearning.com/
- i actually prefer this site.baseline_shift
- a bit difficult to navigate no?version3
- sureshot0
applepirate: that was a retorical question right?
- yes... it was just a basis to start the thread withapplepirate
- Gucci0
^^ I was in the midst of typing something along those lines, v3.
I mean, really... who's to say what's too much? If client X is willing to pay 10k for that site and doesn't bother getting competitive quotes... you have to scratch your head a bit.I know that doesn't make it right, but it's not the designer's fault the client is willing to pay what he's charging for it.
- applepirate0
ok i expected as much form V3... and JNR, i have 3-4 other paying clients right now that im focusing on, this is a .psd that i am getting ready to wire up in flash that is ready to accept a wp blog feed, flickr api data for her media sections photo's and vimeo vid's for her .mp4 uploads of her presenting(which is her entire business model)
this is just a basic all art/bitmaps exctracted form for the content to plug into, is it really that bad V3/JNR???
- Well, to be honest, it's not good.Jnr_Madison
- To be fair tho, I haven't read the thread so I don't know the details of what you have to work with.Jnr_Madison
- i am trying to get the client(a close family friend) away from a horrible html template, thats my startingpoint.......applepirate
- BattleAxe0
find the template and then say the work was not custom so maybe breach of contract ?
- ukit0
Shouldn't we all be trying to push rates up, not down?
In that spirit, I say "Fuck yea, it's worth 6k! He should have charged 60!"