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  • Rulings On Pricing Your Products Or Services

    Posted by Amin Ansar on October 10, 2023 at 1:16 am

    Anything wrong, or any aspect of ripping-off the client, If a freelancer looks at following aspects to price his services?

    1. What value he is providing. For example, for a company like Google, he might ask for upwards for 50k rupees for the similar amount of work that he offers to a smaller company for 5k rupees because first of all both can afford the respective prices and there is a justification that they will get respective value. And he doesn’t look into any further details, he just gives these prices because he just wants to and knows that the companies can afford it

    2. Whatever the price he wants to ask. It doesn’t matter what competition is doing (who might be giving way lower prices for the same) and just takes a small look at the project details and gives the price that he desires, no other factors involved apart from size of the client’s company.

    3. This one feels morally bad. The freelancer is insecure about losing clients and thus he asks way low prices than he wants to but when there is a client who seems nice, he asks for higher budget looking at this as an opportunity that this client will not reject a higher price and the client doesn’t negotiate and is happy to work. But it feels kind of bad to do this as the client would have negotiated with the freelancer or have got the same thing somewhere else at a cheaper price but because he was being nice and didn’t know he could have got a lot cheaper from that freelancer, he was given a higher price.

    Deleted User 8707 replied 1 year, 9 months ago 3 Members · 6 Replies
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  • Rulings On Pricing Your Products Or Services

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  • Dr. Irfan Shahzad

    Scholar October 10, 2023 at 1:50 am

    The owner has the right to sell his product at any rate according to the norms of the market. This is not unethical to sell the same product at different prices to different clients. and This should not be a concern for a freelancer. His job is not to check how his employer deals with his clients.

    • Amin Ansar

      Member October 10, 2023 at 2:53 am

      Okay, JazakAllah

    • Amin Ansar

      Member October 10, 2023 at 7:50 pm

      What if someone doesn’t care about norms of the market. For example, there is mobile phone being sold at 10k and you sell a mobile phone of same specs and there is absolutely no difference in value the buyer is getting and you are selling for 30k, and the buyer buys it.

      This feels bad because you know buyer was most probably not aware of others selling at lower price. But is this immoral? I mean the seller will obviously feel sorry for that buyer but should he?

  • Deleted User 8707

    Moderator October 10, 2023 at 6:49 pm

    Please also see videos of Ghamidi sahab on this topic in the following discussion:

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    • Amin Ansar

      Member October 10, 2023 at 8:21 pm

      I work in a service-based industry where people can charge 1k rupees to 10k+ rupees for the same service, like there is no limit set in the market neither are there are any norms. In fact, people are being discouraged to sell at lower prices because they are ruining the market, like what is happening on fiverr. In cases like these such as asking for a desired price for a service, not product, we can ask for as much as we like, right?

  • Deleted User 8707

    Moderator October 10, 2023 at 9:21 pm

    There are generally no such industries where buyers would pay Rs. 10k for a product or a service that they can legally buy for Rs. 1k. Markets are very efficient and are driven by supply and demand. Generally when a buyer decides to pay more for a product or a service, they are opting to pay for intangibles, for example, quality control, expertise, time, etc. There are also generally no such industries where there are no norms. Even when the price range is wide, it is still constricted by certain norms.

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