Claim you make a lot of money for your services. Pretend you make $200 a session for a massage or $150 an hour for webwork or $250 an hour for magical healing. People will be very impressed that you can demand so much for your services, they will be amazed that you’d be willing to trade those services for good to them. Of course, if you actually made those amounts, you wouldn’t have to make the trades, but people are dumb, they won’t realize it. The sky’s the limit as to what you can claim, so don’t be afraid. Think off all the stuff you can get when you claim you make $1000 an hour for lawn mowing!
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Rick on June 26th, 2006 at 4:55 pm
Which is absolutely why bartering is stupid. Isn’t bartering really saying that I value money more than my time? Or I value your stuff more than my time? And in reality, how many times have you heard people say that they wished they charged for their services and paid for the others because they felt like they got the short end of the stick.