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Re:I Charged $18k for a Static HTML Page by gus_massa on Wednesday May 15, 2019 @05:11PM (#19923804)
This reminds me one of my favorite comments of patio11 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4477088

>> Frew, who apprenticed with a Savile Row tailor, can — all by himself, and almost all by hand — create a pattern, cut fabric and expertly construct a suit that, for about $4,000, perfectly molds to its owner’s body. In a city filled with very rich people, he quickly had all the orders he could handle.

> You don't have to be Wall Street to figure out the bleedingly obvious solution to being a starving artist who has so much work they have to turn work away. Raise the prices. Then raise the prices. Then when you're done with that, raise the prices.

> At some point you'll be too expensive for the typical businessman, which will make you absolutely crack for a certain type of person common in New York, thus defeating all efforts at being less busy. So it goes. I guess you will have to raise prices.

Re:I Charged $18k for a Static HTML Page by chaiii on Wednesday May 15, 2019 @08:35PM (#19925128)
I wonder if it's sustainable though. If you keep raising the prices and people buy what you're selling, and then eventually realize the quality isn't up to par of what they're paying for.
Re:I Charged $18k for a Static HTML Page by evrydayhustling on Wednesday May 15, 2019 @08:47PM (#19925175)
No matter what you think you are selling, you are always selling the buyer's experience. And for some work, framed the right way, high prices improve the experience.
Re:I Charged $18k for a Static HTML Page by kulahan on Friday May 17, 2019 @12:50PM (#19941334)
I'd modify this statement to "you're selling the customer a story", but you're right. When trying to sell a customer an expensive wine, you don't say "This is a cherry-chocolate red wine with earthy undertones", you say "This is a 1787 Chateau Margaux, grown on the left bank of the Garonne estuary in the Médoc region, in the département of Gironde."

Nobody will follow that up with "but what does it taste like", they'll say "oh that's very interesting I'll take it", despite the fact that the whole point is the taste.

By the way, there's nothing wrong with this. Experience is HUGE in how you perceive something. Consider your favorite wine from your honeymoon.

Let's say you're at a restaurant on the beach in Greece, the sun is setting and the weather is perfect. There's a light breeze, and you can hear the waves gently breaking on the shore. You take a sip of the wine and it's wonderful, so you buy a bottle and take it home. You rave to your friends and when you finally crack it open, they're not nearly as impressed as you were. It's not an uncommon story, and it's because half of the enjoyment was the perfect day, the perfect weather, the perfect setting.

Re:I Charged $18k for a Static HTML Page by mcv on Thursday May 16, 2019 @05:25AM (#19927414)
It absolutely does. Some expensive things aren't all that high quality. It's just expensive for the sake of being expensive.
Re:I Charged $18k for a Static HTML Page by kulahan on Friday May 17, 2019 @12:43PM (#19941269)
Remember the "I'm Rich" app on the iPhone years ago? It was just a picture of a spinning diamond. I think it was like $1000 per download? The dude who made it had a bunch of sales before Apple took it down.

People will definitely buy stuff JUST because it's expensive.

Re:I Charged $18k for a Static HTML Page by eveningcoffee on Thursday May 16, 2019 @09:46AM (#19928978)
In principle you are always selling access to your work. Raising prices reduces access and thus increases exclusivity.

It is question of marketing.

Re:I Charged $18k for a Static HTML Page by bihnkim on Wednesday May 15, 2019 @10:18PM (#19925606)
This is a fantastic quote
Re:I Charged $18k for a Static HTML Page by ceejayoz on Wednesday May 15, 2019 @08:50PM (#19925187)
> then eventually realize the quality isn't up to par of what they're paying for

Will they?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/04/2...

> Nordstrom is selling “mud-stained” jeans to the tune of $425. They’re called the “Barracuda Straight Leg Jeans” and come with some sort of fake mud substance caked all over them. (It’s not clear what that substance is.) The knees, pockets and crotch of the jeans appear bear most of the faux brown muck.

Re:I Charged $18k for a Static HTML Page by nitrogen on Wednesday May 15, 2019 @09:47PM (#19925455)
If the fake mud is high quality and doesn't just flake off...
Re:I Charged $18k for a Static HTML Page by wyclif on Thursday May 16, 2019 @03:35AM (#19926920)
This is much like the relic electric guitar market. Fender Custom Shop sells guitars for a premium that look like they've been dragged behind a truck (distressed nitrocellulose finishes, scratches, dings, hardware patina, sanded necks, &c.)
Re:I Charged $18k for a Static HTML Page by rangibaby on Thursday May 16, 2019 @03:19AM (#19926861)
or White Nike AF1s. People are obsessed with keeping theirs looking perfectly new. Dr Dre famously claims to never wear a pair more than once.

The other day I saw Nike started selling dirty looking ones new. There truly is something for everyone!

Re:I Charged $18k for a Static HTML Page by daemin on Thursday May 16, 2019 @05:38AM (#19927492)
Wasn't this the whole designer ripped jeans of the 90s?
Re:I Charged $18k for a Static HTML Page by androidrebel on Saturday May 18, 2019 @12:15PM (#19948206)
You mean the late 20-teens? They are being sold now...
Re:I Charged $18k for a Static HTML Page by daemin on Monday May 20, 2019 @05:41AM (#19958748)
I thought ripped jeans were a Grunge thing of the early and late 90s...
Re:I Charged $18k for a Static HTML Page by jtmb on Thursday May 16, 2019 @12:54AM (#19926236)
Eventually you become a Veblen good. Or you finally get to work less hours.