Charging $200-300 for a Wordpress install?

I’ve been meaning to write about this for a while, a few weeks ago I stumbled on a website offering a Wordpress install, with nothing special added on (no theme, not even basic setup) for $200-300. I was disgusted, and posted about it on a blogging forum I happened to be on.

I think that $200-300 is more than 10x too much to pay for something like that, and if the site mentioned doesn’t even have it’s own permalinks sorted out, what are the chances they’d do yours for you? I used to charge $5-10 for full Wordpress installations, and i tend to help people out for free now - why charge $200-300? As it is, people who contact me generally tend to get my help installing stuff like that for free.

I actually wonder how many naive / unknowing people buy that service from other people for stupid money per month? It’s probably a fair few.

Additionally, those who are making blogs for non-commerical reasons can request the guys over at install4free to help them, free of charge once again.

I don’t think anyone should ever pay more than $20 for a Wordpress install, unless it includes a custom theme.