I just submitted an article to a general request for someone who wanted a list of items. According to the submission rules, we can just submit a list (especially not as long as the requestor wanted) we have to submit sentences, which is what I did. However...
The requestor said they'd pay only up to $X for such a list, but because I had to make sentences and follow the article pricing guidelines, I was supposed to charge $2*X (two times as much). I listed the price within the pricing guidelines, so it will probably not sell to the requesting buyer, but who wins when there's a discrepancy between what a buyer demands to pay and what the guidelines demand we charge? How should I/we handle that? We obviously don't want to undersell our work or become slaves to low-balling clients, but yet.. we want to sell our work, face it. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
--LauraD
Article pricing guidelines vs. requested article
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