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0 pointsRaed6677y ago0 comments

For the second part, I dont think about it as you sold a month of work. You just agreed with a customer that this task is worth X amount of money. If you managed to do it in one hour, that's just good business.

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radicalbyte7y ago

In this case you got lucky; other times you'll underestimate the amount of effort required. In the end it'll even out.

scott-smith_us7y ago

I still think they could have charged for less than the full month. The goodwill and trust that would have engendered would probably have been more than worth it in the long run.

user59944617y ago

Absolutely not. The client will either take you as shady or incompetent for being that much wrong in your estimate.

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r00fus7y ago

That's not ethical if it's a time&materials statement work agreement (because it's an estimate; if the actual work takes 10% over you bill that).

If it was a fixed-bid, then yeah it's completely fine. Though usually I'd say there should be a bit more time spent delivering some additional (canned) documentation and the like.

maxxxxx7y ago

That would require that you eat up the cost if something takes more time. Most of the time the customer will pay for the additional time or at least part of it.

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