Top Ten Signs You May Be Charging Too MUCH
We’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…
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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”.
>> …. And the number one sign you may be charging too little
too little or too much?
Hmm – obviously this Sunday has gotten to us – Jack made a typo and I posed his article under Collis. All fixed now!!
My computer really did explode when I used the FreelanceSwitch rates calculator.
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!
Nice list Jack, very amusing =)
….oh that Olympics logo is bad…
Funny list. I’m hoping to get in on the bidding for the logo for the 2016 Olympics…
Singapore dollars??!? Another Pirates of the Car…. movie?
Heeeeey why Singapore dollars??
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.
hahaha.. nice lists.
the logo looks bad. not worthed for $700k
Jack, I always enjoy your articles
This one made my day…
…sip…
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.
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!
The zero looks like Australia….
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
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
: )
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. :/
Lol @ the London Olympics logo
My food got out by my nose when I saw that $700k logo. Literally!
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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This was great:
“You’re still living off a job you finished in 2005.”
I love it! LOL
@Jermayn Parker: It does too a little.
That’s a nice, concise article and too the point. They’re the one’s i like and this was a particularly humorous post too.
Good Work Jack!
Hilarious! Great article!
That logo…LOL!
It also shows that the city that hired the designer firm didn’t do enough research to find the right designer, or else they wouldn’t have gotten that trash.
My favorite is #9, great article and blog!
Don’t seem to be able to view #1. #4 is definitely the best sign for all freelancers.