Well Paid Is How Much?

As I see more ads and announcements stating "well paying" I though it interesting to ask what people consider well paid in L$.


To host an event?


To provide entertainment club-activities?


To provide custom services?


Other?

I pay $500 for a half hour event. I don't know if that is a lot. I pretty sure I don't make $500 in dwell for a half hour event.

I see Jack.

Have you had any interest in your Elite Croquet?

Which by the way I think is a great idea!

Oh, please don't say they'll be playing naked croquet in Club Elite now!

That concept is hilarious on so many levels...

Ya, all I can say is -- ouch!

So no one want to talk about how much we pay for things in SL?

So is $10,000L considered a fair amount for contracted building? scripting? general consulting? How big/small would the job be for $$10,000L to be generally considered a fair price?

Anyone?

I guess it would depend how much I wanted something. I dont think its possible to put a price on a service. It has to many variables. I know I charge very little for the work I do, in relationship to the time it takes me. I do enjoy what I do so the price is often negotiable.

I sold the Davenport skyscraper installation to Zero Medici for L$12,000. Now that I think of it, seeing how its become this cruft-magnet, I wish I hadn't.

Oh well.

Ah.. what is a "cruft magent"?

But more on point.. well paid is absolutely relative. It is a matter of perspective alone. If the customer get what they paid for at a price they think is fair, the person hired is belived to be well paid by the customer. OTOH, if the work produced is viewed by the customer as having not required much skill or not much time... then it's easy to see that a contractor could be seen as having been overpaid.

Flip that around and you can see the contractor's perspective.

Having said that, I have been paid for things that I have made - or offered pay for them - that I considered exorbitant considering what I valued them at in terms of value to me.

There is very little, now that I have a couple months in SL, that I would pay more than 10K$L for... very little. And the number of things that I would pay over 5K$L for is extremely small. I haven't paid more than $800 for a vehicle, or more than $500 for a multi-change clothing outfit. And I find myself buying fewer and fewer expensive items as my time here increases.

This comment is limited to non-business related items. Business items are a competely separate world value wise.

I'm reasonably priced. If you need a forum follower, IM me inworld.

Ok Korg - go on please...

I've often wondered if I could feth $L10,000 per house built. I'd be a happy man.. it'd make college so much cheaper

Usually I charge around 2-4,000 per build, depending on "materials" used (prims).

should I be charging more?

LF

My 2 cents - charge what the market will bare. In the long run it will make SL a better place. If you make quality builds (which LF, I know you do) charge more than competitors. It will drive everyone to better quality builds because they see that quality is rewarded.

The most I've accepted for a building is $7,000 - and I think it was overpriced at that.

I was once offered $10,000 as long as the final build "blew the socks off" the customer when it was done. Sadly, I didn't have the time to take that one up.

My own guide to building pricing can be found here. As to how that stacks up against others, I have no idea. I know my own opinions on fair rent for both apartments and vending space are far higher than some people's, and far lower than other people's.

Can't believe anyone would actually ask me to go on.. but you did.. so...

If I were to ask someone to build me a house, allocating 700-1000 prims for it not including furniture/interior design, and not giving free rein to the artisan/builder but having a design concept myself and providing it to him/her, I'd be willing to consider anything between 8 and 20k as reasonable depending on the actual details.

I would NEVER make such an offer AND give total control to the builder - as in "make me a New Orleans/French Tudor whatever-style house".

Malls, on the other hand, to me at least, are far easier to do if one is not looking for anything that is artisitcally challenging but more functional. It's simply too easy in comparison to making something artistic. Were I to consider getting into the mall business and asking someone to build a mall, then I'd probably have an 8k upper limit for the build. That does not include any rental scripts or vendor/space management scripting and I don't have a clue what those are worth. That's assuming a vertical mall space that could be placed on a 1024m2 plot. If it went horizontal across a 4096 plot, I might up it a bit, maybe 2-4k. But I have been told I am both cheap and out of touch with SL economics. (I argue that I can build what I am talking about to a level satisfactory to myself in no more than a few hours tops. No one else may be satisfied or call it artistic, but I would be happy.)

I look at it this way.. Starax is inarguably (at least by apparent consensus) one of the most artistic people here. I haven't seen all of his stuff, but I also haven't seen any of his sculpture priced over 2000$L. That said, I haven't purchased any of them except as a gift for someone who is a true Starax fan. His stuff, while I can appreciate the artistry, does not generally appeal to my style (though I recently got told one of my team-built toys looks quite similar to one of his recent toys).

One last thing... I figure that business is business. Malls are for shopping, not necessarily to be viewed as works of art. If they begin to distract from their primary purposes - promoting the purchase (not mere prety display) of objects - then they fail in their function and detract from their overall success in terms of turning a profit for their owners.

Likewise, one person's toys are another's excesses in materialism. Seriously, why does anyone need any different clothes than issued at the Starter Island or that they can make for themselves using the Apperance tools? Only two reasons make sense to me - entertainment and vanity. Neither has any $ value. Both have personal value that varies from person to person.

That said, art and artistic value is in the eye of the beholder. Uniqueness in owning a sculpture or one of a kind vehicle, for instance, has no value to me.

Yes I feel you should charge more.

You're established, have a good reputation, and do good work.

All I can say is the price makes sure only the elite will be seen playing.

I would have payed $5000 for this hi-fi thing but it was $800.

When I ran my rooftop garden Casino I used to deal in some pretty high stakes.

My biggest take was one night someone won a few thousand lindens, but finally lost it all, at a profit to me of about $7k I think.

However gambling is not paved completely with gold, and I closed the casino after a sucession of people won on one off spins on my high value machines, resulting in it being $10,000 in the hole.

And people still come up to me and moan that the machines 'never pay out'. Sometimes I like it that people don't see what I earn, but sometimes I wish they would. Anyway I digress. My point is I earnt from as little as maybe $20 some nights to $7,000 a night in the gambling industry. There's a benchmark. That's what I earnt.

Now I earn about $500 a week from my dole money, cause I'm not in world much. But I'll be back, probably with some new get rich quick scheme