“Why do people, including you apparently, always hide the price for this kind of thing? Market segmentation? Trying to get people to mentally commit before they find out how expensive it is? Maintaining a veneer of upper-class distaste for the crassness of money (or similarly, a “if you have to ask how much it is, you can’t afford it” type thing)?”
I agree with that, and I have a policy of never buying from anyone who does this.
Often I don’t know how much something would cost even to an order of magnitude; for example, I have no clue whether Eliezer charged Jane Street closer to $1,000 or $10,000 for his talk. This is probably because I’m not a finance company talk arranger, but I have the same problem with things that are targeted at normal people like me (vacation packages especially). I find (though I can’t explain this) that I very rarely bother asking someone who provides no price information for a quote.
Even a “my base fee is $2,000, but varies based on this and this” or a “My fee is in the low four figures” would be better than “my fee is low”.
“Why do people, including you apparently, always hide the price for this kind of thing? Market segmentation? Trying to get people to mentally commit before they find out how expensive it is? Maintaining a veneer of upper-class distaste for the crassness of money (or similarly, a “if you have to ask how much it is, you can’t afford it” type thing)?”
I agree with that, and I have a policy of never buying from anyone who does this.
Often I don’t know how much something would cost even to an order of magnitude; for example, I have no clue whether Eliezer charged Jane Street closer to $1,000 or $10,000 for his talk. This is probably because I’m not a finance company talk arranger, but I have the same problem with things that are targeted at normal people like me (vacation packages especially). I find (though I can’t explain this) that I very rarely bother asking someone who provides no price information for a quote.
Even a “my base fee is $2,000, but varies based on this and this” or a “My fee is in the low four figures” would be better than “my fee is low”.