Dear Tim,

My wife is an artist.  She would say you should NEVER feel guilty for charging for your professional work.  (Especially if someone has approached you for commissioned work.)

Price it for what you feel your time and effort is worth.  If you choose to give it away from time to time, that's OK, but the price you put on the front should reflect what you think its "true market value" is.

To accept payment for services rendered, even for creative services, is nowhere near "fraud"!

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Cheers!

Ken


On Mon, 21 Sep 2020 at 07:42, Timothy Collinson - timothy.collinson at port.ac.uk (via tml list) <xxxxxx@simplelists.com> wrote:
Hi there

Is there anyone that can help with a DriveThru query, please?

They want items of a page or two for a Halloween trick or treat that are either a bit of silliness or themed to give away as freebies.

Now Halloween isn't really my thing, or at least hasn't been since I lived in the US inn1974 when I was 9!

But, nevertheless I had a thought of something I could do and wrote it this morning.

I had assumed they wanted something emailed which after the day you could give away or sell as you wished, but it turns out you have to submit an URL of an already published thing.

Well, I could do that but I don't really get how you then price the thing?

Free - surely there's no point if the idea is to drive browsing traffic on the day by giving away something not normally free.

Very cheap (say 99c) - this makes some sense as it's barely worth that but it seems to me that folk might buy it when really, I was happy for it to be free, so I'd feel a bit of a fraud taking any money.

Very expensive (say $10) on the logic no one would pay that for one page and then I can give it away free after the event.  But then what if someone did buy it?  I'd feel a lot of a fraud.

Ridiculously expensive (say $99) so no one would ever dream of paying for it.  But doesn't this, and the previous one, smack of a lack of professionalism?  (In as much as I aspire to any such thing)

Anyone have any experience with this? Or a view from the 'buyer' side?

Happy to share the page in return for critical comment with, let's say, the first to ask.  Not that there's much to look at.

tc

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