[TheForge] Prices

[Peter Hirst]

Actually its a straigtforward way of saying that your wealthy customers 
sunsidize you and your poorer clients
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Andrew Vida" <osan at netlabs.net>
To: <GHS at execpc.com>; "Sponsored by ABANA" <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Friday, March 28, 2008 11:09 AM
Subject: Re: [TheForge] Prices


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> GRAF wrote:
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>> Andrew Vida wrote:
>>>     This is a really important point IMO.  One has to know when a job is 
>>> simply not worth doing.
>> Andy, I have several thousands of dollars of income from GOOD jobs that 
>> were generated by thankless, miserable little jobs.
>> The trick is not doing the miserable ones while leaving the good ones 
>> sit.
>> I just tell the pesky jobs owners that they can pay me $100 an hour if 
>> they need it right now, or $50 an hour if I can do it as I see fit. 
>> Either way I win.
>
>    Methinks you missed my point: those not worth doing are the ones that 
> cost you more than you make.  That is to say, the net present value is 
> less than zero.
>
>> That depends for me whether or not it is a "tuition piece".
>
>    I am not at all sure I would buy into this idea.  Work is work.
>
>> Spending two days learning to do something is little different than going 
>> to a school and dropping $1500 with travel, meals, class charges, other 
>> than  with the tuition piece I get to sleep with my wife at days end.
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>    This is a backhanded way of say that you subsidize your customers to 
> some extent.  If that extent is small (subjective term) then if it's OK 
> with you, it sure is by me.  But small in my world better be SMALL.
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