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Originally Posted by exaltedwombat
When I get a conversion that turns out to be a 30-minute 'run it through the converter and tart up the frontmatter' job I'm usually honest enough to adjust my standard fee. But there was one client who was so in love with doing everything top-class and 'professionally' that he'd have hated to get a cheap job. So I obliged him, although he'd presented me with a meticulously-formatted text-only DOCX.
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I'm boggled, again. I don't think I've ever had a document like that. Of course, we don't work "in" Word, so maybe that's cause and effect. Even if it's fairly clean, we still go the HTML route.
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I've had the same when wearing my musician hat. I agreed to play for a friend-of-a-friend's birthday party, and quoted 'mates rate'. I got constant 'phone calls - Are you SURE you know 'Happy Birthday' - etc. Because I was cheap, they assumed I was rubbish. (I may be rubbish, but I'm not THAT rubbish that I don't know 'Happy Birthday') :-)
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And you still played it? I'd have said "gosh, thanks, but if you really don't think I know 'Happy Birthday', I think you should find someone that you can pay the professional amount." I mean, giving someone the good-buddy rate doesn't mean that they get to give you a rasher of the proverbial.
Hitch