Posted by Blinky the Shark on 03/08/07 22:56

dorayme wrote:
> In article <slrnev114e.nn0.no.spam@thurston.blinkynet.net>, Blinky the
> Shark <no.spam@box.invalid> wrote:
>
>> Jonathan N. Little wrote:
>> > Richard Formby wrote:
>> >> Adrienne Boswell wrote:
>> >>
>> >>> When searching in Google for Nick Mendoza, the first site is
>> >>> mine, and the sixth result is Mendoza Gomez & Associates - MG&A
>> >>> Team (team.php). It returns a 404 - because it's the old page
>> >>> _I_ did. I gave up looking for the new site at page 10 (with 50
>> >>> results per page) - nothing, it's indexed, but who knows where.
>> >>
>> >> Did you look here? http://www.mendozagomez.com/
>> >>
>> >>> To make a long story short, the client called me tonight and
>> >>> wants me to "fix" it. I _love_ my life!
>> >>
>> >> Charge them twice your normal?
>> >
>> > That was going to be my suggestion. Sort of "I Told You So" fee.
>>
>> And tell them that if they have someone come in and screw that (the
>> repaired version), the next repair will be at 4X the original. :)
>
> No, Adrienne, don't do any of these wild triumphant things. These boys
> here will just lead you astray.

Sure, they might turn her down, but she still gets to laugh at them.
Hopefully to their faces. :)

> Just be totally inscrutable and charge totally normal rates without
> comment. The humiliation will be all the more complete by your dignity
> in this matter. I can assure you that it is what your local priest
> would advise and in this at least (if little else), I would agree with
> him.

They might not be bright enough to be humiliated without the additional
(and profitable) push of higher rates. :)

--
Father Blinky O'Connor

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