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by onion2k 3988 days ago
Every hour you spend meeting a potential client, send emails, and writing justifications is an hour you could have sold to someone else.

A client that comes in with such a low estimate (£3k for a £100k job) is going to take days of negotiations before agreeing to a sensible price ... if they ever will. There's no way that time will be recouped by winning the job. Ergo, say no and walk away because it will cannot be profitable to persue it.

Time spent pitching for work is lost time. Choose your battles wisely.