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This is an extremely good point and I'm glad you made it. It's one of several considerations I left out in my initial estimate but it can be an important thing to factor in. Phil, the numbers you mentioned and consider "fair" are the reason it's increasingly difficult to make a living as a composer. Don't be part of the problem. Charging less than the competition to take advantage of cheap clients and get the job devalues the work of everyone, not just you, when done to that extent. Undercutting so viciously just isn't cool, and all it does is teach them that you think you're just as cheap as they do. We all need to make money but not so desperately that we compromise our integrity and respect for the industry to do it.

And the media player is still not working. IE and Chrome too. Dude, beta test or something. Please. >_<

Phil, Sorry for coming down on you, I wasn't really meaning to target you specifically — as you said, it's a frustrating situation. I reacted poorly and I apologize. In any event, it's definitely a free market and that's something to be celebrated, but in order for it to remain a positive thing I think that anyone who does pursue music commercially has a responsibility to cultivate a sense of value for what they do. And that can come about through standing by higher rates for their own work and/or sharing their experience with others who are just entering the fray so as to prepare them for what they're getting in to and how to avoid falling prey to it.