Post prices online?

[turkspartan]

As a web designer/developer do you guys post your prices online?

 

I was thinking of posting the price of an average quote because a lot of people call thinking they can get a website for $250 or so. I mean I geuss there are people who do it, but I am not going to spend weeks for $250.

 

Anyways I was thinking this would get rid of people with that kind of a budget and that if people called me than they are aware of the average price I charge. I guess this is a good and a bad idea.

 

What do you guys do? It's kind of a bummer when you are asked to do a professional business website that will take a few weeks and than the customer doesn't want to pay more than a couple hundred.

[ShadowMage]

Personally, I wouldn't put any price information on my website. If I did, though, I'd maybe give an hourly rate and then maybe give a list or chart depicting the average number of hours it takes to do certain kinds of projects. And of course, a disclaimer saying that each project is unique and may or may not require the same amount of hours.