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    How do you gauge value when starting out?

    Yes, I did ask but it got 360'd on me. I'm not sure whether to be quoting in the region of £12k p/a for an approach that includes keeping the lights on and licensing, with an escrow. That's based on it covering a day or so per month towards 'maintaining' it (but not 'enhancing') or around the...
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    How do you gauge value when starting out?

    I think this is the problem. In lieu of someone experienced to talk to about numbers, I have done the 2026 think and rubber-ducked it with a LLM (AI). In some ways, saying '£10k per year' sounds like a lot, but in other ways it is clearly not going to really be anything more than hobby money...
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    How do you gauge value when starting out?

    It's a difficult one, because I don't know how much of that I would be expected to be privvy to. I do know that a salesperson got a very large bonus for one particular itinerary but made some quite fundamental mistakes in it that, I believe, cost the company 4 or 5 figures (on a 6 figure sale)...
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    How do you gauge value when starting out?

    I know the scale as it currently stands - I think it's around 20-50 users in terms of 'viewership' - sales people with profiles and presence for reporting, including up to 10 who would be authoring data onto the system. Of course, ideally, I could say "slip me £5k a month and that will include...
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    How do you gauge value when starting out?

    Yes, I believe that's where the value will be. The difference in both life and business, I guess, is that some will understand it and others won't (pennywise/pound foolish). The tool I have provides visibility of the whole process, but in a company that doesn't currently have that, it makes...
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    How do you gauge value when starting out?

    I guess the thing that's throwing me off a little bit is that the people who do the actual work aren't paid much more than the legal minimal... (I think they were originally grown quite naively, and quality/standards in general are a new concept to them) but the company does present as a luxury...
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    How do you gauge value when starting out?

    I've had ambitions to run my own software company for most of my life now but I lack the attribute (confidence? arrogance? knowledge?) to know how to price things. For example, many years ago, I was working for a Fujistu-owned company that made rather unspectacular customer application...
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    Tiny (if any) margins on eBay sales

    if you go on sold, they don't sell 450000 items a day. only about 400 listings have ever sold, according to the sold listings search. Even if they sold 450,000 per day, I don't think £450 would go far to covering the cost of getting people to process them (write/print/stuff envelopes, even)...
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    Tiny (if any) margins on eBay sales

    Perhaps. I have been using better quality materials and I design and produce my own artwork, so I was considering whether a more 'boutique' approach may be the path worth treading. I am a software engineer by day, but I have previously worked in typography/vector/graphic design so it's...
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    Tiny (if any) margins on eBay sales

    As has been mentioned, it isn't China. Pretty much all of them are bona fide UK businesses. 143380163220, for example, is a pair of UK number plate stickers - 99p delivered. They also sell a set of 3 house numbers for a bin for 99p (143541113244), including postage. Although vinyl isn't...
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    Tiny (if any) margins on eBay sales

    I was wondering if I am missing something here! I'll use a contextual example here with item 222507563389 on ebay, which is some personalised bin stickers. There's an item that sells for £1.65, with postage, for four stickers. Using the minimums, 2nd class postage is 65p. That leaves £1.00...
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