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You can tell him WHAT you are going to do but not HOW. I used to have a client who would keep asking me for solution with the lure of a project coming up, but then said thanks, problem solved. I had to jokingly say I need to start charging for consultation for providing solution, but eventually had to fire the client.

But on the other hand, I have clients whom I gave detail proposal on WHAT to be done in the projects and the projects were awarded.

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i ended my day concluding the same line : >> You can tell him WHAT you are going to do but not HOW.

here is what happened:

my bid was accepted, job poster selected me for interview, he sent me 3 emails straight in last seven hours via private messaging on the bidding site. i asked him to share his contact, asked him to join me in skype, got no response. he continued asking "how would you scale", "how would you fix database..", "how would you speed up the app..", "what is preferred framework for such large project.." i was more concerned about getting my first job via such freelance market, i replied all his queries, spent my day goggling around the questions. when i hit the reply button to his 3rd email, there came a notification in my email inbox "you job application was declined." 3rd email was about preferred mvc framework for his web site.

my bad, this thread was not here yesterday.

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