On: Measure results, not hours

[Evbn]

This is clearly fraud and worth suing and winning over. Charging standard "shop hours" like a mechanic, in advance, is one thing, but just making up a price afterward and pretending it was hours worked?

[scotty79 → Evbn]

Billing client for reading internet, paper or chatting by the watercooler is also a fraud. Yet noone cares. As long as client is satisfied with results and the price everything else doesn't matter all that much.

[meric → scotty79]

  Billing client for reading internet, paper or chatting by the watercooler is also a fraud.

Exactly. That's why you don't do it.

[donw → scotty79]

My clients get billed for the time I spend improving their business, not for the time I spend on Hacker News.