The proposal says seven grand. The budget is five hundred. And somebody’s brother’s daughter can apparently do the same job for the same money.
Every agency gets this call. We matched the price, then asked him to meet us at a comedy club in Leeds.
The serious bit underneath it: £500 doesn’t buy a website. It buys a template with your logo dropped on it. Nobody has asked what your customers need, nobody has thought about how an enquiry actually arrives, and nobody is around when the contact form stops working six months later. So you pay again.
Our prices are on the website because we’d rather you knew before you picked up the phone. Most of what we build lands between £8,000 and £12,000, and here’s exactly where that number comes from.