Quotes or hourly rates? Your pricing, how do you value your time?

Originally Posted by Julian An amazing thing happens when you quote high, businesses start thinking "wow, they must produce absolute top quality work, we want the best, so let's get them!". Quoting low generally means what it means, cheap and nasty.

Very true. Its all down to perception. Usually clients dont have the technical know-how to properly decern who's really the best guy for the job, so they use other cues such as pricing, the designers level of professionalism etc. to determine who they should go with.