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Originally Posted by pilotbob
Why not just be honest and tell them with your current schedule you can't possibly meet their time line? If you just give them a too high quote they won't come back for future quotes.
BOb
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well, i did tell her that was a tight deadline, and also that i already have quite a lot of work right now. but to be honest, i think a "fair" quote will be too high for her, so the problem might resolve itself. especially since i'm not prepared to give her a deal since i don't know her at all and she'll make me work in bad conditions (not enough time). and since each project is unique, if she likes my work (which she says she does, that's why she contacted me), if she has more work in future she might come back for a quote just to see, or she might work with someone else on this project and be happy with them and keep working with them in future. honestly, if all her projects are going to be underpaid and "urgent" with half the time really needed to do the work, i'm not going to make too much effort to try to catch her. i have enough clients like that already.
