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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	I've run into this situation before, and faced this same ethical dilemma. By standard business practices, if you quoted this job as a "flat rate" based on your hourly estimate then that's it, you're done and they should pay the full amount. (Another way to look at this is this: would they have had to pay more if it had taken longer? If no, then the above logic applies.) If this was truly an hourly job with no fixed cost, then I'd spend a few more hours really looking at the details, do an even better job than you've done. Then you can bill them for the actual work done, more than you've done so far, less than you estimated, but exactly the amount of work you did. So! [b]Everything hinges on this one point, would they have had to pay extra if it had taken longer?[/b] Answer this and your ethical choice is simple. Your pal, -doc- [url=http://www.ozones.com/] [img]http://www.ozoneasylum.com/examples/ozoneSIGc.gif[/img] [/url] Loading...
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