Quote Originally Posted by Shanntarra View Post
A girl wants me to make her a custom ball gown but expected only to pay $30 bucks for it (supplies included). When i told her she was looking at least at $100 for supplies alone, much less paying for my time she was livid. She could go to the mall and get a simular dress for $50. The problem is that dress won't fit her correctly and will fall apart soon as a breeze hits it.
A complicating factor is that people have been conditioned to pay extra for "designer labels." The fact that the "designer" products are mass produced by Asian child-labour seems irrelevant.

Further, home-made is supposed to be cheap and inferior. You go for home-made when you cannot afford store-bought. Now, I am guessing that Shantarra works from her home, so obviously her work is cheap and inferior. It's just logic (stood on its head).