On Wed, 14 May 2014, Adam Levin wrote:
I'm trying to figure out if I'm getting stuck with the short end of the deal.
:)
this is the wrong way to be thinking.
<soapbox>
It's worth thinking in a few different ways, but "who gets the short end of the
deal" is just about always wrong.
It's valid to price based on how you value your time (including benefits that
you get from them being grateful, feeling good about helping the community, etc)
It's valid to price based on the benefit that they get from it
And it's abaolutly valid to price so that they think they are getting something
worthwhile, even if you would be willing to do the work for less (people are
funny that way)
But in any good deal, both sides are going to feel that they got more than they
had to give up, or at least that they value what they got more than they value
what they had to give up.
anything where either side feels that they 'got the short end of the stick' is
not a good deal to enter into. Even if you are not on the short end of the deal,
the bad feelings that are generated from deals like this have a way of
influencing other interactions with people (and your reputation)
It's also not unusual for a bad deal to end up where both sides feel that they
got the short end of the stick.
David Lang
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