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5000 pages, including e-commerce integration and bespoke search. £500!

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I don’t know some of those words, probably ought to say it’s 600 dollary-doos

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There isn’t that much money in the universe.

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Dad who? Never heard of him. Wrong number

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Found the fatherless!

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That’s either a professional level dad joke, or holy wow, does he not know how much you make?

That said, I’ll build anyone a website for £500, no matter how large. But that’s the base model. It’ll be a template taken from a catalog, and Hugo. My maintenance fees are only £250 per hour.

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I’ll build anyone a website. I’ll do it for 450.

No refunds, though. (don’t tell them this, but they won’t be very happy with the product.)

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It’s a pretty good racket. My friends boss saw us building ourselves a site one time when he let us use his shop on the weekend and he got intrigued.

So as payment for letting us use the machine shop we took over his business website from some expensive marketing company that charged a ton we got him down to a domain and a basic weebly plan. We took photos of the shop and just used their shop colors for the text and slapped on all the contact info he wanted.

Then his bookkeeper saw his site and wanted one so we did the same for her, then her son saw the site and wanted one for his friend who’s a plumber. Next thing you know we are turning down jobs because everyone and their mother wants a $500 website from us haha. It became a better business than what we borrowed the machine shop for to begin with

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Very nice. I don’t think there’s anything better than being your own boss.

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In most industries, that’s considered a bait and switch. Decpetice conduct that can lead to fines.

If you contact them immediately, to rectify an error, then not so much.

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What are you taking about, he didn’t bait anyone. You aren’t obligated to honor a quote from someone who isn’t in your company. If I said my son is a mechanic and he can put a new engine in your car for $50, you absolutely should not expect a $50 engine.

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You tell them you don’t work for $500.

Or you tell them that you do.

Per hour.

But since they’re clearly such great mates with dad, you can cut them a deal.

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I’m saying they should not get to the point that they walk in the door. If they call, correct immediately.

It should be corrected, by Dad, prior to a call, rather than used as a sales funnel, which is the suggestion.

Honest mistakes happen, but using an honest mistake to purposefully continue to mislead to get them in the door and then correct them is a bait and switch.

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They didn’t say it was deceptive,they said it was decpetice.

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You sound like a LinkedIn influencer:

I shat my pants; this is why this is a great opportunity to network!

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500$/hour is so good tho?? smh

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The implementation itself? Plausible.

The requirements gathering? Gonna be way more than an hour.

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