[Brueskie]

I often get contacted via my website (the one in my signature) by folks looking to hire me to design a theme for them. Many seem appalled that I won't create a custom theme similar to the one at my site for less than, say, $100. I had one guy who thought anything more than $20 was a complete ripoff. I could easily make more money mowing lawns in my spare time than what some of these people expect me to work for.

Some folks are simply looking to fleece the designer/coder. Others are genuinely ignorant of the amount of work involved. Still others seem to believe that highly customized one-off skin should cost the same as an off the shelf premade skin.

I also realize that the opposite happens all too often as well: coders who are looking to fleece unknowledgeable clients by exaggerating the difficulty of the job, or who simply take the money and run without doing anything.

Ah...for that Utopian world where everyone was honest and trustworthy.