Guys, I'm quoted $4k for a reddit clone. I'm getting fleeced right?

The forum where the question is asked is actually a subforum on a video game site. But I still find it provides some kind of insight on the thinking of many business type people, that completely fail to comprehend anything about technology.

And that think that ideas are valuable, and that execution just goes to the lowest bidder...

Reddit is open-source (https://github.com/reddit/reddit) so yeah, I'll clone it for $4k.

As a non-gamer, I'm flabbergasted by the offhand way in which so many gamers make lighthearted rape references and sexually denigrating comments. And not just the title of the thread. I guess I'm old now.

Yeah that's really, really, suspiciously cheap if it were to actually work at any sort of scale.

well, just download reddit code, and change the template; and voila: clone ready

First impression, that's seems like a lot (depending on what the wishy washy description really means). Second, that's a lot of bs-alarms going off when reading the description; there's not only a lot of buzzwords and non-specifics, but there's also a lack of mention of important things (scalability, etc).

You're waving costs for me? What, are you going to tell me that if I email back within the next 3 minutes that I'll get two reddit sites for the price of one!?

This seems like someone who isn't sure the value or complexity of what he's asking for and has more of just an idea of what would work well functionally. I would say they, at the very least, needs a consultation with someone who understands how to elicit functionality requirements and turn that into a technical architecture/infrastructure discussion.