This doesn’t look like a bet. It looks like a service for which you charge €3500 and 3+ months of the customer’s time, but will refund €2000 of that if they don’t think you lived up to your claims.
Yeah, I agree that this is one (I feel a little bit too harsh) way to put it. But I feel that in a certain important sense it still is a bet. Also, saying I “charge” 3+ months of people’s time seems a bit missleading, like saying a restaurant charges their customers’ time when they eat at that restaurant.
Anyway, I see lots of down votes, so apparently quite a few people are annoyed by my way of putting it!?
I agree that although it costs the customer 3 months, saying that you “charge” them 3 months doesn’t sound fair. It’s not like you get those 3 months somehow.
But it sounds also fair to tell the potential customer explicitly that even if it doesn’t work, it will still cost them 3 months and €1500. And if it does, then it will cost them €3500.
This doesn’t look like a bet. It looks like a service for which you charge €3500 and 3+ months of the customer’s time, but will refund €2000 of that if they don’t think you lived up to your claims.
Yeah, I agree that this is one (I feel a little bit too harsh) way to put it. But I feel that in a certain important sense it still is a bet.
Also, saying I “charge” 3+ months of people’s time seems a bit missleading, like saying a restaurant charges their customers’ time when they eat at that restaurant.
Anyway, I see lots of down votes, so apparently quite a few people are annoyed by my way of putting it!?
I agree that although it costs the customer 3 months, saying that you “charge” them 3 months doesn’t sound fair. It’s not like you get those 3 months somehow.
But it sounds also fair to tell the potential customer explicitly that even if it doesn’t work, it will still cost them 3 months and €1500. And if it does, then it will cost them €3500.