Dave,
FWIW and hopefully this helps a little. As an independent developer, I
will often bill for work in increments as small as $100, depending on
the job and the client. If I were working for a consultancy, my time
would probably never be billed out in increments less than $1000.
Here is a recent example that happened to me. A couple of weeks ago a
consultancy I work with for Flash development quoted me $1200 to
integrate some new 3rd party code. I felt that it was a < 1 hour job,
whereas $1200 represented their daily rate for one developer. I did it
myself and it took about 2 hours -- which just reinforced my original
time estimate as I made several mistakes due to my inexperience with
Flash. My budget is limited so it was frustrating to know that I
couldn't get small things done for me. But, for them this is the only
sane way to operate.
In my limited experience, this is just the difference between dealing
with a consultancy and an independent developer (or something else).
For a company like RunRev, they simply can't afford to operate
differently - they only have a few developers and the overheard of
maintaining a consultant business for small tasks adds up fast.
Multiple people get involved, they need to warrant their work, etc.
FWIW.
However, according to the recent mails from Heather (nothing was
said at the time) they thought it would take longer but I really
can't see it, however, if it would take longer then I thought, I
expected some technical reasons why it would take that much effort,
e.g. some justification as to the cost.
I get asked for quotes for work all the time, whether it be in
monetary terns or how long it will take to do something. If I were
to just say it will cost £1000.00 or take one week without
justifying why, I don't think I'd get much work.
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