NYCPHP Meetup

[Chris Hubbard]

Mind you there's a huge difference between discussing how you determine 
what you charge, versus working collaboratively to set prices that we 
informally agree to use.

It's the collusion that is the problem, not the dissemination of 
information, especially in an industry that hasn't gone through rounds 
of aggregation, like ours.

If there were two developers, then yes, it would be a problem.

chris



On Aug 11, 2004, at 2:53 PM, David Mintz wrote:

> On Wed, 11 Aug 2004, Jose Villegas wrote:
>
>> What about saying "I charge x for y". If I can put this on my website,
>> is it any different than telling people on a mailing list? Membership
>> on this list isn't restricted, so if a customer were curious, they
>> could always sign up and see what developers are talking about. [...]
>
> No, I am pretty sure no one can give you a hard time about publishing 
> your
> own rates. Anyway, I don't claim legal expertise on this or anything 
> else;
> I do know that people have been given a hard time by the authorities 
> for
> discussing how they set their prices. Take it cum grano salis, as they
> say...
>
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> David Mintz
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