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Where I live its context dependent.

> selling house renovations to elderly people for 10x prices

is illegal if the targets were elderly (or disabled), but not if you are just regular Joe and definitively not to business. In fact that's how politicians usually "help" their friends here, so laws are quite muddy probably on purpose

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I am not a lawyer, so I can't argue on the topic of legality, but I can promise you: if you try to sell me something at 10x market price, I _will_ go around telling people you're a scammer. Then you can explain to people how you're actually not breaking any law while scamming people.

Well, there are people charging $100/h around here — do you think they are scammers because there are others that charge $10/h?

You literally can set arbitrary price to your time and at worst there won't be anyone willing to pay it.

There's a difference between setting a price in good faith that you think the market is going to accept, and setting a "f u" price that you think no reasonable person should accept.

There is no such thing as "one reasonable price". You may value your time arbitrarily high and don't need explanation for that, and there may be someone that value money arbitrarily low and has literally random reason to hire you.

This checks as long you give your rate/price upfront. This would be a scam if you DO the work and THEN charge non-market rate/price.

Let me give you example. I live in Slovenia. There are quite a few programmers here. You have some brand new guys that charge 15 or 20 EUR per hour, and then you have some SV veterans that came back (or work remote), and charge SV prices, and everything in between.

If you go for a quote for a simple android app (iPhone is not that popular here) you are quite likely to get more than 10x difference in quotes from various studios.

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