In my spare time as a hobby I started doing woodworking in my garage. I’ve made lots of different things: cornhole boards, waving flags, and even some furniture. My son liked what I was doing and created a Facebook page to post all my various projects to, and from that page I’ve started getting messages about things people wanted built.

Now I never been good at pricing things and always figured as long as me and my customer were happy and I wasn’t losing money what did it matter. So recently I made a new TV stand for my living room and posted pictures of it just because I was proud of how it turned out. I got a message a few days later asking the cost of making one, I told the person after looking up on Home Depot’s website the wood required to make a 2nd one that the material was $380 and that was just for the wood. I would still need to charge for paint, nails, etc. as well as a small fee for me building it. The person asked what the total would be and I explained $650. They called me a rip off and said since I already have the things like paint, screws, and nails I shouldn’t be charging them for those items and that they could find someone to make the TV stand cheaper.

A day passes and they message again asking if $400 would be enough. I said if I changed the size maybe, but that still is me doing it roughly for cost. The customer then told me the shelf was a gift for their family and that is all they had and they believed that since that was at least cost I should be able to do it.

My patience now worn thin I told the customer I was not in the mood to give gifts and that I was done. The customer then proceeded to tell me I was a rip off and an a**hole.

So am I the a**hole?