Re: FN-FORUM: charging clients

date posted 29th January 2005 19:09

In freelance.forum, Colin Rainsforth [EMAIL REMOVED] (Colin
Rainsforth) wrote in [EMAIL REMOVED]

>
>At 8:25 pm +0000 28/1/05, Dave Edwards wrote:
>>Learning to be 'hard nosed' and turn away business that's just plain
>>unprofitable is a skill that takes years to build. Perhaps skill's not
>>the word? Confidence?
>
>I used to work in a print shop (many moons ago) and one evening a
>customer came in 2 minutes before closing needing some urgent
>photocopies doing for an important presentation the next morning.
>
>Naturally my boss was happy to oblige and duly set about photocopying
>the documents and collating up the sets.
>
>He then rang up the total on the till and asked for the money (about
>£10) to which the customer looked aghast!
>
>"How much do you charge per copy then?" asked the customer.
>
>"10p +VAT." replied the boss.
>
>"What!? But it's only 8p +VAT in Birmingham!" (about a 50 minute drive)
>
>"No problem" replied my boss, binning the photocopies and pointing
>"Birmingham's that way."
>
>Nice. ;)

Forwarded to a printer I know- he'll like that!
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