Strongly disagree with this. The honest cheerful price is sometimes $0, and if that’s true you should say $0, and presumably then do the thing given you were asked for your price.
It’s bad short term profit maximization but if you were purely doing short term profit maximization you never would have been inclined to bake the cake for free in the first place.
This doesn’t parse as disagreement—Eukaryote only said that asker should be willing to pay a nonzero amount, not that a nonzero payment should actually happen.
So, according to my read of Eukaryote (and also according to me):
“My cheerful price is $0” / “great, will you do it for $0?”—fine.
“My cheerful price is $0.01” / “oh, hm, I don’t actually want to pay a cent for it”—not cool.
“Honestly I’d have done it for free as a favor, but since you ask my cheerful price is $5” / “oh, okay, will you do it for free?”—not cool.
(Edited to add:) “Honestly I’d have done it for free as a favor, but since you ask my cheerful price is $5” / “hm, I don’t want to pay $5, but will you do it for $2?”—fine.
Strongly disagree with this. The honest cheerful price is sometimes $0, and if that’s true you should say $0, and presumably then do the thing given you were asked for your price.
It’s bad short term profit maximization but if you were purely doing short term profit maximization you never would have been inclined to bake the cake for free in the first place.
This doesn’t parse as disagreement—Eukaryote only said that asker should be willing to pay a nonzero amount, not that a nonzero payment should actually happen.
So, according to my read of Eukaryote (and also according to me):
“My cheerful price is $0” / “great, will you do it for $0?”—fine.
“My cheerful price is $0.01” / “oh, hm, I don’t actually want to pay a cent for it”—not cool.
“Honestly I’d have done it for free as a favor, but since you ask my cheerful price is $5” / “oh, okay, will you do it for free?”—not cool.
(Edited to add:) “Honestly I’d have done it for free as a favor, but since you ask my cheerful price is $5” / “hm, I don’t want to pay $5, but will you do it for $2?”—fine.