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$100 an hour sounds expensive. $1/minute might be a better published price. And also suggest that it's priced in minute increments.

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Well, they're targeting people who want on demand helicopters. I feel like $100/hr makes sense given that context.

These are people who buy an iPad Pro in the checkout line on a whim.

And suddenly decide to next-hour ship it to their mum (again according to examples)

Thanks for the feedback. You're right, you bring up a good point that isn't explained as much on the website as it could be. We actually track time down to the second and display really detailed reports to users every day about how the time was utilized. Quite often a simple request can end up being $3-$4.

Is there a way to set a maximum price or time you're willing to pay for each request? My biggest hesitation about using something like this would be that it would end up costing way more than I anticipated - something I expect to take 30 minutes could take 4 hours cost $400 instead of $50.

I know why detailed reporting is important, I just have to assume that anyone paying for this is not price sensitive.

Transparency and trust, one would imagine, are the core pieces of the business maybe even in front of task execution so it makes sense, but still, if I bought a 1200 ipad via SMS because I was too lazy to drive to walmart I probably don't need the reciept.

To-the-second metering sounds awful.

The interview for the Magicians ensures they don't stutter - or does it?

That would change the price of the hour. We can still say $1.66 per minute but less appealing than $1.

Then it also solves too-high pricing.

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