How Much Should I Charge?

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Hallo all,

I've recently been approched by an ebay seller looking for a re-design of his site(s) and am wondering how much he should be paying me for the work.

Over the summer i will need to do this for 3 sites:

Full ecommerce with backend admin etc. (Custom Written)
Full SEO'ing

Basically everything you would need to make and advertise a site to sell products from and maintaining it as well.

At first i was thinking, high ?xx but i dont know, i expect it will take me about 2 weeks as this guy is very perfectionate and im learning as im going for all 3 sites which are going to need slightly different needs.

Also, the payment will be in ??? or an item he sells that i want (Very active ebay seller of all kinds). Should i take payment first? Or after job is done? He seems kosher and ive got his address etc. But i would ideally want money first but i dont know what freelancers normally do.


Dalraj

[Morphmaster]

I would be looking low/mid XXXX personaly for the work your putting in.

I use a 25% deposit 60% on showing a working copy and 15% on finish

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Originally Posted by Morphmaster

I would be looking low/mid XXXX personaly for the work your putting in.

I use a 25% deposit 60% on showing a working copy and 15% on finish

Did you just say xxxx ?

Maybe Low ?xxx but woah,

I would love to see how much Craig would charge as he does lots of jobs similar to this one

Dalraj

[Morphmaster]

Well your custom coding an ecommerce script, now, i get the impression "flubbcommerce" like oscommerce or something a lot simpler?

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Well, he asked for something unique and custom coded. I know how to do it roughly, just need a bit more MySQL learning here and there.

I'll probably get him to pay 33% upfront, 50% on working work and rest on finish.

But maintaining it could mean regular ?XX for like 30 mins work a day so i could be in there

Dalraj

[Wistow]

?x,xxx definetly, custom ecommerce projects can run into mid-high ?xx,xxx

Craig

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Originally Posted by Wistow

?x,xxx definetly, custom ecommerce projects can run into mid-high ?xx,xxx

Craig

Jebus, whats so hard about ecommerce projects? I've already started it and im finding it pretty easy.

Dalraj

your propbley on the easy part at the moment
itl probley get harder

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Originally Posted by KF1

your propbley on the easy part at the moment
itl probley get harder

Hehe as always, when i get to the payment/cart things will get tricky.

Dalraj

[FrozenDice]

Hmm. Your going to make your own custom payment cart? Why not just modify a current one? Do you know all the security involved etc? Your improving in your coding. It sucks not being able to do any code for the next week. Stupid colorado.