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Originally Posted by DigitalCarpenter
Good luck with this. I am a consultant and my clients can either pay time and materials (they assume the risk if the job takes longer than estimated) or they can pay the flat rate (I assume the risk if the job takes longer than estimated, but I pad my quote to compensate).
You don't get to have it both ways. I had client tell me that's how his company normally does business and I told him "how nice for you". His choice at that point was to find a new consultant or continue to pay my hourly rate (I am still working with him).
The reason flat rates are offered at all is because they reward efficient, correct work by getting it done under budget. Otherwise the better you are at something the less time it takes, hence the less money you make, where is the incentive there?
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I don't think I'll have a problem.