Re: FN-FORUM: Hi all (new here)

date posted 7th March 2008 15:22

On Friday 07 March 2008 02:14:18 Ben Johnson F wrote:

> There is nothing unethical or unusual about discounting the cost of a
> static build (vs. the cost of a CMS system that lets the client update the
> site themselves) as a reward for signing an on-going MSA agreement. That's
> just business sense.

If there is a discount on the initial build, then that should have paid for
itself by the time the client thinks about moving to a CMS.

My point is that you can't really charge significantly *more* than some
other developer would just because of "lost earnings".