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sxan ,
@sxan@midwest.social avatar

That’s either a professional level dad joke, or holy wow, does he not know how much you make?

That said, I’ll build anyone a website for £500, no matter how large. But that’s the base model. It’ll be a template taken from a catalog, and Hugo. My maintenance fees are only £250 per hour.

FuglyDuck ,
@FuglyDuck@lemmy.world avatar

I’ll build anyone a website. I’ll do it for 450.

No refunds, though. (don’t tell them this, but they won’t be very happy with the product.)

variants ,

It’s a pretty good racket. My friends boss saw us building ourselves a site one time when he let us use his shop on the weekend and he got intrigued.

So as payment for letting us use the machine shop we took over his business website from some expensive marketing company that charged a ton we got him down to a domain and a basic weebly plan. We took photos of the shop and just used their shop colors for the text and slapped on all the contact info he wanted.

Then his bookkeeper saw his site and wanted one so we did the same for her, then her son saw the site and wanted one for his friend who’s a plumber. Next thing you know we are turning down jobs because everyone and their mother wants a $500 website from us haha. It became a better business than what we borrowed the machine shop for to begin with

sxan ,
@sxan@midwest.social avatar

Very nice. I don’t think there’s anything better than being your own boss.

sabreW4K3 ,
@sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al avatar

5000 pages, including e-commerce integration and bespoke search. £500!

Kalkaline ,
@Kalkaline@leminal.space avatar

I don’t know some of those words, probably ought to say it’s 600 dollary-doos

SteveFromMySpace ,

As a freelancer, this can actually be used to your advantage lol. It gets them in the door and you can make it a funny thing that he thought that was your rate. If they’re not serious people, they’ll walk out the door. But if they are, they’ve already invested the time to contact you, so they’re a little easier to land as clients.

hitmyspot ,

In most industries, that’s considered a bait and switch. Decpetice conduct that can lead to fines.

If you contact them immediately, to rectify an error, then not so much.

AFKBRBChocolate ,

What are you taking about, he didn’t bait anyone. You aren’t obligated to honor a quote from someone who isn’t in your company. If I said my son is a mechanic and he can put a new engine in your car for $50, you absolutely should not expect a $50 engine.

SteveFromMySpace ,

OP didn’t do anything. You tell them you don’t work for $500. What are they supposed to do? Ignore the call? I’m just saying it could become a good thing. Nothing deceptive happened here.

commandar ,

You tell them you don’t work for $500.

Or you tell them that you do.

Per hour.

But since they’re clearly such great mates with dad, you can cut them a deal.

hitmyspot ,

I’m saying they should not get to the point that they walk in the door. If they call, correct immediately.

It should be corrected, by Dad, prior to a call, rather than used as a sales funnel, which is the suggestion.

Honest mistakes happen, but using an honest mistake to purposefully continue to mislead to get them in the door and then correct them is a bait and switch.

SteveFromMySpace ,

When did I ever say if they call you not to correct it immediately?

The entire point is that the first time they talk to you you have no idea that they are expecting a ridiculous rate. So you clarify the situation and if you’re lucky it turns into a job anyway. Explain to me how that is deceptive?

MadBigote ,

You sound like a LinkedIn influencer:

I shat my pants; this is why this is a great opportunity to network!

SteveFromMySpace ,

That’s ridiculous. OP gets a call from someone expecting a rate they never set and it’s the same as caking your pants? I don’t even remotely follow the logic.

I’m saying you can take a misunderstanding and make it a positive thing. The person needs a site - you tell them your real rate and they’re free to say no. But freelancer did absolutely nothing to create this situation. They’ve done nothing wrong.

As a cinematographer I’ve been in this situation plenty of times. I did a budget friendly job for somebody, they don’t realize the other person has much larger demands and doesn’t have a relationship with me, they give the person an unrealistic range, I clarify the situation and explain that is not my rate, and sometimes they go “well whatever that’s a fair rate/I still need you so let’s do business.” I did absolutely nothing deceptive. I was transparent every step of the way and there is nothing wrong with that.

“Can you come out for $300?”

“No that’s not what this jobs costs. I can do $1200. Yes or no?”

Done

MagicShel , (edited )

It’s one website. How much could it cost, £500?

general_kitten ,

What website weighs 500 pounds?!

SharkEatingBreakfast ,
@SharkEatingBreakfast@sopuli.xyz avatar

Probably a local gym.

hakunawazo ,

Maybe it had too many cookies.

SlopppyEngineer ,

The most important thing is what you’ll get. A few static pages and stock images with the watermark still present, sure. Beyond that the meter starts running.

hypeerror ,

Here’s some money, go build a JStor

bulwark ,

Do you guys have any idea how expensive a website is with a Large Screen size?

MonkderVierte , (edited )

Static, low-js, HTML tags used-as-intended, some basic CSS for formatting, responsivity and dark/light. Modern-looking accessible webpage from scratch done in half a day.

Btw, github.com/…/awesome-motherfucking-website

Mikina ,

I mean, if it’s **just ** a normal screen-sized website, that already makes it a lot easier. Not having to deal with responsiveness bullshit would make webdev a lot better experience. That is assuming “normal screen” means 1920*1080, or whatever is the median screen size.

pastermil ,

To be fair, using flex box (which is the default in many modern framework) would make responsiveness a breeze these days.

Ahardyfellow ,

One day I’ll learn flex and be able to make nice responsive displays, but until then Bootstrap it is.

pastermil ,

Whichever works for you!

MajorHavoc ,

It only needs to look good on whatever screen size the client’s CEO’s favorite administrative director uses, when she checks on it, on a Friday evening, seven weeks after delivery (but still well before I’ll ever see my $500.00…)

Wish me luck guessing the screen size…

hakunawazo ,

Just make it mobile first… and last ;)

ClassifiedPancake ,

500 per pixel is my rate

DecentM ,
@DecentM@lemmy.ml avatar

Well he did just say designing, so lucky there. I’ll send over some wireframes, sure

Taleya ,

Dad who? Never heard of him. Wrong number

pastermil ,

Found the fatherless!

Duke_Nukem_1990 ,

500$/hour is so good tho?? smh

pastermil ,

The implementation itself? Plausible.

The requirements gathering? Gonna be way more than an hour.

taiyang ,

My dad does this, and I made a few bucks thanks to WordPress. Really, more thanks to Elementor because you can make a pretty snazzy website for cheap and the layman has no it took 2 hours to put together with templates. Lol

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