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#1 Jan 15 2010 at 3:09 PM Rating: Decent
I'm pretty sure I've mentioned several times how my boss is an idiot. A huge idiot. I just got copied on an email to the client quoting them a monthly hosting fee of several hundred dollars for the sole purpose of hosting a "coming soon..." page. The client has requested we put a page up immediately because some marketing materials were inadvertently distributed prior to a program going live, but $750/month for a single web page is @#%^ing stupid. I don't care what red tape or corporate politics is involved.

Edit: Yeah, this was supposed to go in the OOT, but whatever.

Edited, Jan 15th 2010 3:18pm by BrownDuck
#2 Jan 15 2010 at 3:15 PM Rating: Good
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Well, then.
#3 Jan 15 2010 at 3:25 PM Rating: Good
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Hold on, is he paying $750 a month or receiving $750 a month?

If he's receiving, I'd say he's pretty smart.
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#4 Jan 15 2010 at 3:37 PM Rating: Good
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Iamadam the Prohpet wrote:
If he's receiving, I'd say he's pretty smart.
And if your clients are willing to pay that, they deserve to get hosed.
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#5 Jan 15 2010 at 3:45 PM Rating: Decent
Uglysasquatch, Mercenary Major wrote:
Iamadam the Prohpet wrote:
If he's receiving, I'd say he's pretty smart.
And if your clients are willing to pay that, they deserve to get hosed.


Would a hotel suddenly start charging $1000 a night for a room that usually costs $100/night? No. Why? Because there are plenty of other hotels for the customers to use to avoid the price gouging. Same concept applies here; he's just too ignorant to understand / accept it.
#6 Jan 15 2010 at 3:46 PM Rating: Excellent
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Make the client a better offer.

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#7 Jan 15 2010 at 3:46 PM Rating: Good
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BrownDuck wrote:
Uglysasquatch, Mercenary Major wrote:
Iamadam the Prohpet wrote:
If he's receiving, I'd say he's pretty smart.
And if your clients are willing to pay that, they deserve to get hosed.


Would a hotel suddenly start charging $1000 a night for a room that usually costs $100/night? No. Why? Because there are plenty of other hotels for the customers to use to avoid the price gouging. Same concept applies here; he's just too ignorant to understand / accept it.


We're talking about hosting, not a hotel room. Most people don't know what hosting should cost. Shame on the customer for being too lazy to pickup the phone and call someone else.
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#8 Jan 15 2010 at 3:48 PM Rating: Decent
Samira wrote:
Make the client a better offer.


I've thought about this several times, actually.
#9 Jan 17 2010 at 12:54 PM Rating: Good
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BrownDuck wrote:
Samira wrote:
Make the client a better offer.


I've thought about this several times, actually.


Thinking doesn't sound like doing.
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BrownDuck wrote:
Would a hotel suddenly start charging $1000 a night for a room that usually costs $100/night? No. Why? Because there are plenty of other hotels for the customers to use to avoid the price gouging. Same concept applies here; he's just too ignorant to understand / accept it.
Hotels will charge excessive prices when demand is high and supply is low. Hotels/car rentals/airlines gouge all the time. Say spring break in Florida, Calgary Stampede (city doubles it's population for a week) or Daytona 500.
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#11 Jan 17 2010 at 3:51 PM Rating: Good
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Uglysasquatch, Mercenary Major wrote:
BrownDuck wrote:
Would a hotel suddenly start charging $1000 a night for a room that usually costs $100/night? No. Why? Because there are plenty of other hotels for the customers to use to avoid the price gouging. Same concept applies here; he's just too ignorant to understand / accept it.
Hotels will charge excessive prices when demand is high and supply is low. Hotels/car rentals/airlines gouge all the time. Say spring break in Florida, Calgary Stampede (city doubles it's population for a week) or Daytona 500.


Also the Masters. I learned early to never do anything in Augusta except cook for yourself with food bought the week prior and go watch the rounds live. That is, if I stayed in Augusta. Everything in the city shoots up to double, and hotels and temporary renters make bank charging even more.
#12 Jan 17 2010 at 5:38 PM Rating: Good
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Uglysasquatch, Mercenary Major wrote:
BrownDuck wrote:
Would a hotel suddenly start charging $1000 a night for a room that usually costs $100/night? No. Why? Because there are plenty of other hotels for the customers to use to avoid the price gouging. Same concept applies here; he's just too ignorant to understand / accept it.
Hotels will charge excessive prices when demand is high and supply is low. Hotels/car rentals/airlines gouge all the time. Say spring break in Florida, Calgary Stampede (city doubles it's population for a week) or Daytona 500.
Vancouver olympics. There's a bunch of fraternities and sororities that kicked everyone out to rent to people for the olympics. It's pretty amusing.
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#13 Jan 18 2010 at 5:20 AM Rating: Good
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Vancouver olympics. There's a bunch of fraternities and sororities that kicked everyone out to rent to people for the olympics. It's pretty amusing.
First time the Tall Ships came back to halifax about 6-7 years ago, after a 20 hiatus, they drew a crowd of a million people or so. The province is about 950,000, the city 400,000. People were going on vacation and renting out their bachelor pads for $1500. 1 or 2 bedroom apartments wnet for far more. Rooms were $200 plus for some crappy Mom and Pop's Motel dive.
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