Top Ten Signs You May Be Charging Too MUCH
Jack KnightWe’ve already discussed how to tell if you are charging too little, but what if your prices have gone right the other way? For your amusement here are some signs you may be charging too MUCH!
Number 10:
To justify the price on your quotes, you’ve started writing extra words that usually mean the same thing…
eg. Creation of Concept, Concept Development, Concept Refinement, Tweaking to Concept, Amendments to Concept ….
Number 9:
You’re still living off a job you finished in 2005.
Number 8:
Even large clients ask to pay you in installments.
Number 7:
Clients ask if you are perhaps quoting in Singapore dollars even though you live in Ohio.
Number 6:
When you mention that a change request is going to incur additional charges, most clients start to hyperventillate.
Number 5:
No-one ever hires you twice.
Number 4:
When presented with an estimate, clients often say things like “If you didn’t want to work with me you could have just said so”.
Number 3:
When you tried to use the FreelanceSwitch rates calculator your computer exploded.
Number 2:
When you hear how much your lawyer charges per hour you think ‘peh, small fry!’.
…. And the number one sign you may be charging too much
You have reportedly charged *cough* $700,000 for this logo…
Mirko
June 10th, 2007
Hey! Who told you that you could use a photo of my limo?
Please contact me to pay me the “creation of photography concept developement” fee.
Nice one on the “logo”, assuming you meant “charging too much”.
Filosof
June 10th, 2007
>> …. And the number one sign you may be charging too little
too little or too much?
Cyan
June 10th, 2007
Hmm - obviously this Sunday has gotten to us - Jack made a typo and I posed his article under Collis. All fixed now!!
Jens
June 10th, 2007
My computer really did explode when I used the FreelanceSwitch rates calculator.
Ed
June 10th, 2007
Being british, i really feel i need to apologise for that monstrosity of a logo for London2012… we are known as a nation of lager louts, and football hooligans, so it only seems fitting that our olympics logo is graffiti….
As for $700k, i would have typed “graffiti generator” into google for half that price!
Joel Laumans
June 10th, 2007
Nice list Jack, very amusing =)
….oh that Olympics logo is bad…
Lance
June 10th, 2007
Funny list. I’m hoping to get in on the bidding for the logo for the 2016 Olympics…
Paul
June 10th, 2007
Singapore dollars??!? Another Pirates of the Car…. movie?
Vicki
June 10th, 2007
Heeeeey why Singapore dollars??
Danny Foo
June 10th, 2007
ROFL! I had a hunch it was going to be ‘that’ logo.
Thank goodness I’m still charging fine, I even started to worry if I charge ‘this’ much for a big company they’d have a problem. LOL!
Oh well, it’s worst here in Malaysia.
didats
June 10th, 2007
hahaha.. nice lists.
the logo looks bad. not worthed for $700k
James Tadeo
June 10th, 2007
Jack, I always enjoy your articles
This one made my day…
…sip…
Robert Aubin
June 10th, 2007
I don’t see anything wrong with that spiffy logo…. (eek!)
This quote from the provided link is just great:
“It was meant to be a logo that engaged and inspired, instead all it seems to have done so far is anger people and cause epileptic seizures.”
Yep, that about sums it up.
Benek
June 10th, 2007
Yeah that logo really is bad. I’m sure most of us could have done better for $1000 and then taken a few years off on holiday!
Jermayn Parker
June 11th, 2007
The zero looks like Australia….
Rajesh Shakya
June 11th, 2007
Hi
Nice list of signs of charging too much.
Few more signs in this list to add:
1. Prepare 15 page proposal for just a week long project
2. You send re-estimated excel sheet to client at the middle of the project.
Cheers,
Rajesh Shakya
Shane
June 11th, 2007
11. If as a special treat to yourself, you used some of your earnings from your last job to trade in your limo for a helicopter
Ana
June 12th, 2007
: )
At 1st I thought price depends on the all project itself, then I add the country and now the client (people factor).
Yesterdary a client ask me $50 for a logo when I charged $400
Too much? Now I am getting confused. :/
Ash Haque
June 12th, 2007
Lol @ the London Olympics logo
Chris Hoeppner
June 13th, 2007
My food got out by my nose when I saw that $700k logo. Literally!
David Bradley
June 14th, 2007
Great list, had me laughing out loud, especially the Singapore dollars quip. “That” $700k logo, one observer observed, looks like Lisa Simpson giving head (Oh, and she’s wearing an Olympic-shaped hair grip on the side of her head if you don’t quite get that view…
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