Prince Harry spent £10,000s on a wordpress theme

[deedee1whoa]

It's a pretty website, at least.

 

[Deleted member 1313244]

Guys, this will include an NDA and other PR services. They would probably have had face to face meetings and heard things they don't want reported, this is normal.

 

[Nut-Nights]

I was drunk, now I am not after reading this thread.

 

[belg]

Now if you love being ripped off by all means I'll build you a website just like that in your own image if you'd like to commission me for £20,000 - £90,000.

Omg there you are again with your 20,000 - 90,0000 the media is exaggerating. You believe everything you read on the internet?

I've worked for an agency, I know they charge high rates. Why do you think I got so engaged in this thread in the first place? If you're not an agency OBVIOUSLY you can't charge the same rates. They have designers and developers each specializing in their own field, these people need to get paid. You've clearly never had to pay employees before.

I help run my father's house painting/decoration business. We have to pay 4000€+/mo for each of our employees (worst part, they only receive about 2000€ of that, bc taxes and social security). Obviously our prices are HIGH. Which is why we only work with big hotels. No one would want to hire us to do their house, obviously.

Can anyone paint a house? Of course! But do they have the training necessary? How about color advice? KNOWLEDGE ABOUT QUALITY PAINT? Installing crown molding? etc etc.
You can also hire a regular self-employed painter here for 20-35€/h but they are all around painters and not specialized in any type of field.

This is the exact same, your team of developers and designers need to be paid. Of course, you can hire a freelancer, but it's not the same.

And if a brand or entity has the money to invest in PROPER web design from the ground up, why wouldn't they? 20,000$ is a nice tax write off.

 

[MicroLeaf]

You'd be surprised dude. Most people struggle to close $500 website clients but that's because they target broke people. You can easily overcharge $10,000+ for a website and have the right client grinning from ear to ear thinking they landed a bargain of the century. It's all about finding these top dogs.

 

[Voo]

Omg there you are again with your 20,000 - 90,0000 the media is exaggerating. You believe everything you read on the internet?

I've worked for an agency, I know they charge high rates. Why do you think I got so engaged in this thread in the first place? If you're not an agency OBVIOUSLY you can't charge the same rates. They have designers and developers each specializing in their own field, these people need to get paid. You've clearly never had to pay employees before.

I help run my father's house painting/decoration business. We have to pay 4000€+/mo for each of our employees (worst part, they only receive about 2000€ of that, bc taxes and social security). Obviously our prices are HIGH. Which is why we only work with big hotels. No one would want to hire us to do their house, obviously.

Can anyone paint a house? Of course! But do they have the training necessary? How about color advice? KNOWLEDGE ABOUT QUALITY PAINT? Installing crown molding? etc etc.
You can also hire a regular self-employed painter here for 20-35€/h but they are all around painters and not specialized in any type of field.

This is the exact same, your team of developers and designers need to be paid. Of course, you can hire a freelancer, but it's not the same.

And if a brand or entity has the money to invest in PROPER web design from the ground up, why wouldn't they? 20,000$ is a nice tax write off.

To put this to bed, this sort of outrageous price point applies to countless other businesses as some of it involves months of RnD ( Doing something as simple as redesigning a Pepsi logo could cost millions ) . I am aware of all of this.

It doesn't take it away from the fact that a freelancer could have built that and potentially something even better than that for under $1000 as some come equipped with more than just an eye for web development but for design as well.

Many a time websites which were put together with just a few hundred dollars stomped competitors which spent potentially $100,000s on theirs.

Either way my point was they have fuck you money so they don't do extensive research to save money, their photographer that those photos you see on that website were taken with probably cost them $10,000s too.

 

[PeterPerseo]

They are using the so common Yoast Seo Plugin, just like any other "mortal"

 

[ttmschine]

Rich clients are perfect. But finding them is very hard.
The higher the price on a service, the more likely they'll buy, just to be sure that it's "the best" service provider out there. That's their mindset.

This true my BiL was asked to quote for some media firm in London so they did the quote, added a big chunk on, thought about it, doubled that price and then added some more on.

£6K - £8K website - he quoted over £80K.

Didn't get the job because it was a lot cheaper than the firm they chose, so they were worried about the quality.

People based decisions off comparisons. See this video for perfect example:

 

[Deleted member 1313244]

This true my BiL was asked to quote for some media firm in London so they did the quote, added a big chunk on, thought about it, doubled that price and then added some more on.

£6K - £8K website - he quoted over £80K.

Didn't get the job because it was a lot cheaper than the firm they chose, so they were worried about the quality.

People based decisions off comparisons. See this video for perfect example:

Sherlock hacks google going to be $20,000 after this.

 

[Voo]

Sherlock hacks google going to be $20,000 after this.

No $20,000 will be the exclusive members only 50% off BHW discount.

 

[BassTrackerBoats]

Either way my point was they have fuck you money

I read in some newspaper not too long ago Harry had some 25$ million mostly from inheritance from his Mother.

I don't get the whole deal as to the hierarchy, royals, the reason for the royals and all that (and it is none of my business either) there but that is real money.

10K or whatever on a website is relative to the cost of a cup of coffee for me and I get a senior discount at almost any restaurant where I would have one.

What little I know about him makes me think he is a good guy and I hope him and his wife do well and I am sure they will.

 

[Voo]

I read in some newspaper not too long ago Harry had some 25$ million mostly from inheritance from his Mother.

I don't get the whole deal as to the hierarchy, royals, the reason for the royals and all that (and it is none of my business either) there but that is real money.

10K or whatever on a website is relative to the cost of a cup of coffee for me and I get a senior discount at almost any restaurant where I would have one.

What little I know about him makes me think he is a good guy and I hope him and his wife do well and I am sure they will.

Very true, its all relative, at times it depends on whether you were born in to money or not too I suppose as Harry was. Warren Buffet is a good example of a frugal billionaire who I would imagine would be one of the guys who has a hissy fit over an overpriced project. Indeed I do wish Harry all the best and hope Meghan doesn't bring him down as a person too much.

 

[Deleted member 1313244]

I read in some newspaper not too long ago Harry had some 25$ million mostly from inheritance from his Mother.

I don't get the whole deal as to the hierarchy, royals, the reason for the royals and all that (and it is none of my business either) there but that is real money.

It's a lot more complicated that this. Princess Diana put all of her assets in an offshore trust for her sons so the media couldn't find out about it. What's also strange is that in the UK all wills are public except for members of the Royal Family so legally we are not entitled to know.

It's reported Harry was getting around £2m a year from Prince Charles as an allowance in addition to his investments he inherrited. Harry felt this wasn't enough - he wants his wife to get Disney Money so he told them all to do one when he couldn't be a Quasi Royal.

 

[BassTrackerBoats]

The man served his country with several tours in war zones all the while sitting on stupid money and stupid money coming in.

There is some real character qualities there.

I'm sure there was some privilege there but none the less he served. No matter what your country affiliation is one has to honor that.

I have not seen the site nor do I have any interest in seeing it (my wife may want to as she got up at 4AM to see their wedding on TV here) but 10K/20K/whateverK is not going to put a dent in their portfolio and I am sure they have deals lined up to carve their way to live the lifestyle that they want to live.

 

[stack adams]

it’s a nice site at least. reminds me of that texas logo that the government paid for and people were remaking it in photoshop in 5 minutes

 

[Ninah]

But at least it looks really good

 

[GringoMonkey]

Harry & Meghan are not allowed to even use the site!

The queen has said if they are not going to be doing royal duties, they are not royal, so cannot claim they are and need to rebrand!
https://www.express.co.uk/news/roya...brand-ban-prince-harry-the-queen-royal-latest

Considering she gives them the royal titles, she can take them away.

So he will have to spend another chunk of change rebranding.

As to the money like @BassTrackerBoats said it is not that big a deal to them.

Plus they have no idea about wordpress. We see from the other side of the curtain, so know the real costs. But that is just business.

If you knew the cost of a coke to a bar, you would never buy one!

I had a business where i charged about $300 for basically running a photoshop action and emailing the result.

I am sure we all have tales of how we make obscene profits on some service/product we sell to customers who have no idea of the actual costs and we have all overpaid for something. That is just life.

 

[alfredmajoris]

fair price fair work

 

[Alenaxo]

10K for them is probably like 10 cents for us...

 

[Scott Eichner]

I ihave read every single comment and as of right now...you guys can say whatever you want and justify why you are saying it but to me it looks like a bunch of jealous people poking fun of the ultra rich but if only because you are on a black hat forum.....have no right to be doing so.

I am super jealous also. there lives must be so freaking fun and amazing. Would really be cool