Hi Michael, I am a student, and admit I don't know anything what so ever about the prices we should be charging. Using international forums I have found that our work is worth a lot more money than initially thought, and being a student my time is worth a lot.
Anyway just wanted to say I charge a lot now, and customers actually land up with a much better product and appear more willing to use me the more I charge. The reasons are pretty self-explanatory :D Having said that, I too dislike the way many students work and just yesterday had problems resolving domain name issues (not the first time) caused by a fellow student. Hopefully, if students have any common sense, they will use the wiki to learn the correct conventions. Daniel Weeks > > Michael Green wrote: >> To Harvey - I understand what your saying and agree that pricing to low >> at the start leads onto >> difficulties at a future date. but i don't plan on staying in the >> freelance area for more than this project takes as i am looking for >> apprenticeships next year or payed work experience before taking on >> study. > > With all due respect... > > That position makes life harder for everyone else on this list. > > I have to deal with customers every day telling me they can get a cheap > student and have to explain why this is bad. I loose that job and I end > up wasting much time. Now, the minute they mention 'student' I just > hand up. > > I spend the other half of my day sorting out problems for customers who > have had a job done by a student how has moved on but left then hanging > with no support. > > Often the person registers the domain name in their own name - take 3 > unchargable hours for me to fix. > > They host with a co and don't pass on details, password, user - normally > just can't fix this. Customer writes off hosting, we rehost and then > give them a control panel (if they are competent to drive it). > > This leads me to two points for the list and you... > > 1. If you're going to do it at all, do it properly, please :) > > 2. We need to do more as a list to sub-contract these guys so they can > have some cash work but not stuff up the market at the same time. I > know some of you do this, and I know all of you care! :) I confess that > this is a lesson for me to... we don't do enough of it. > > Cheers Don > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
