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That's fine, but I bet in reality even you, holding this perfectly valid viewpoint, wouldn't mind if someone showed you their rate card, and it disclosed this at the bottom, and when questioned the principal said it was due to an 'accounting practice' rather than just rolling in the obviously low delta in price.

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I'd call bullshit on the "accounting practices" smokescreen and send them packing. What's next? I get billed for computer time by the hour because they wanted the 12-Core Mac Pro?

But more than that, they way I view someone like that is someone who would rather nickel and dime me to death than to just just honestly charge the rate they need to charge. I would feel there were going to be numerous little surprise charges on their invoices. And being a hired gun myself, who started out as a nickel-and-dimer, I would view the individual or agency as lacking in experience.

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