Since starting of my profession, I never bargain to collect fee from my clients. While dealing with rich people, I found that they start bargaining just to bring the fee at bottom. They don't give any value to the professionals, because money is everything for them. They think that they can purchase anything with money. This is partially right and the world is only for rich people. Other citizens are either their employees or laborers who live their life with the grace of Rich.
The important thing I noticed is that those who earn less know
well about the amount of hard work required for a job and they
bargain less and pay proper fee. The fact about misery of rich
people is not understandable. But one thing is clear, they might
have earned their rich status through misery.
Many times I felt that the amount of work given by rich people
are much higher in comparison to the fee they give. But their
feeling is like that they are donating the amount and the work
is very small. When people bargain to reduce fee, I frankly tell
them that if you have financial problem, I am ready to do your
work free of cost. But if you are financially fit you should
give the normal fee to me.
It is very easy to deal with an ordinary person who visits my
office for professional services. But it is extremely difficult
to deal with those misers who have huge amount of wealth and
till bargains for small amounts.
Many times I noticed that, to save small amount of fee rich
people lost huge amounts. They are not worried about these
losses, but they don't pay nominal fee to a professional.
Recently one of my client approached me to get advice for
investing few Crores of Rupees in a Company. I have analyzed the
financial data and public opinion of the company and gave a
report advising my client not to invest in this project at any
cost. My client read my report and decided to invest in that
project without considering my warning.
After few months I received a call from his to inform me that he lost his entire money. He requested me to help him to recover the money. But it is just impossible as the Group he invested is built on money collected through fraud.
In this case the rich man became poor due to greed and by not
considering professional advise. These kind of people will take
any risk to earn money, but they are also misers when they want
to give salary to their staff or professionals.
In my experience the most decent clients are those who might be
earning less but understands others hard work.
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