I guess the price is only fair, if "YOU" believe it to be fair. Any auction site is going to take alot of coding hours and you are the one that will either win or lose on the project. What you must do is define the scope of the project with the buyer and have him understand that any additions to the original scope is extra money. He may come to you and say "I want robo bidding" and you are going to have to tell him ok, well that is an extra $200.00!!
As far as comparisons, I would simply tell him the time it will take you to build the site as compared to someone doing it in ASP/PHP is almost half. Which it is almost half the coding involved. Show him some examples of the same type of functions done in ASP/PHP and then show him the Coldfusion equivalent. I think he will understand where you are coming from. Now if he wants to host the site himself, then of course you may have a problem since he will have to own Coldfusion Server himself. Doug B. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ali Majdzadeh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, January 12, 2007 5:33 AM Subject: Client asked me: "Why you use coldfusion?" > Hi: Two days before I was talking about a project with a client. He wants a portal_like website that has at least 8 seperated Auction parts and some message boards and a complete Administration pannel. It has at least 18 dynamic parts (like; News, Job finder, Seminar Alerts ...) that the admin pannel controls. Plus 5 different templates for the parts and a Logo and flash intro. The price I suggested in the proforma invoice was about 3500$. Is the price fair? Please send me your idea about the price of such a website. > > The client asked me "why are you using Coldfusion and why don't you use ASP.Net or PHP?". Can you please send me a link that compared the major server side technologies that I show the client the big advantages of Coldfusion compared to others. > > Thanks > Ali > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Create robust enterprise, web RIAs. Upgrade & integrate Adobe Coldfusion MX7 with Flex 2 http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;56760587;14748456;a?http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=LVNU Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:266370 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
