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I would have quoted $800 for 16 hours of work - I figure if they don't want to pay for my professional abilities, then the job is simply not worth it. If you work cheap for them now, it's much harder to ever get a better rate from them. Actually, I probably would have quoted more like $1000, since you said it was more like 20 hours of work. It's rare that a job takes a lot less time than you think, and if it does, you can always bill them less than you estimated, and they get a pleasant surprise. I've learned to always pad the estimate a bit to allow for the changes that we all know are coming.
I used to take every freelance job that came along, but now I'm a lot more discerning. If the job (or the client, for that matter) sounds like it is going to be a PIA, I'll pass.
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