Terms for R&D and Consulting Services, Training and Seminars

LATE NOTE EFFECTIVE JANUARY 31, 2010 AND ONWARD: I have largely discontinued consulting, R&D services and project management services in the realms of the sciences, fringe science, strange science, nutrition and well-being, and also in the realms of lectures, seminars and training in these realms, and from Jan. 31, 2010 onward will be approving, at most, only two percent of requests for new consulting projects in those realms; I will continue to accept a large percentage of requests for services in the realms of intuitive consulting and spiritual coaching. For more details regarding my almost-complete cessation of acceptance of new clients/projects in the scientific, nutritional and well-being realms, please see my January 31, 2010 letter on this website for further details. Thank you!

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The following consulting terms and rates apply for all clients in this category with whom I do not have a current contractual relationship with a positive balance of prepaid funds on deposit. The rates listed below in this section apply to most services in the realms of the sciences, fringe sciences, and strange sciences with a few exceptions noted elsewhere on this page.

As always, any and all prospective new clients must be pre-approved, and must receive explicit permission from Vinny prior to sending funds. Please be advised that after pre-screening discussions have ended, I typically accepted only 40% of invitations to perform consulting or contractual R&D services prior to January 31, 2010, and that I will be accepting and approving, at most, only two percent of requests for such consulting services from January 31, 2010 onward; please see my January 31, 2010 letter on this website for further details.

For those clients who have been formally approved and accepted by me as consulting clients, my consulting is billable in one hour blocks and multiples thereof, prepaid, at the rate of $450 per hour, prepaid.

Please note that all contractual R&D and consulting services are offered on a prepaid basis only. For a very few long-term clients who still have a positive balance of prepaid funds on deposit with me, I will continue to render services at my earlier pre-January 31, 2010 hourly rate until those funds have been depleted.

If you are a new prospective client, or an old client approaching me with an entirely new project, or an old client wishing to perhaps replenish prepaid funds on deposit with me, please do not send any funds to me until and unless you have reviewed the section above entitled A Note to All Prospective Clients and we have performed the requisite steps prior to proceeding. Thanks!

Prepaid consulting fees are not refundable or returnable, but be advised that prepaid time may be used over the ensuing four years from date of cleared payment.

All rates quoted for services are based upon prepayment of services in advance. R&D, consulting and training clients are asked to prepay in advance for all services. For large projects, I suggest that we break the prepaid time into smaller blocks of time so that we may each manage such projects more cleanly and clearly.

All fees may be prepaid using the Paypal links or other payment method on the Payments page. Once approved for consulting work with me, you may prepay for anywhere from 1 hour to as much as 400 hours of time.

As noted in the table below, prepaid rates drop to $440 per hour if you pre-purchase a block of 3 hours or more of my time, and there are further breaks for larger blocks of prepaid time; please see the table below. Any pre-purchased block of time may be used over the next 4 years from date of cleared payment, and may be used in incremental (i.e., quantum) chunks, or all at once. All prepaid purchases of consulting time and services are final; no refunds or returns.

Terms and Rates for Seminars, Trainings and Lectures
in the Realms of Science, Fringe Science, Strange Science, Nutrition and Well-being

The following consulting terms and rates apply for all clients with whom I do not have a current contractual retainer-based relationship, and reflect my terms and rates for consulting services based primarily upon intuition, aka inner guidance. Personally, I feel that all of my consulting work, including that rendered in scientific and agricultural fields, involves the use of intuition to some degree. However, I have found over the past five years that more and more, some clients have been approaching me where their explicit interest is in consulting services which are based primarily upon my inner intuitive guidance, that is, where I enter a very deep meditative state and acquire answers or guidance based primarily upon intuition, aka inner guidance, which is also sometimes known as guidance from Holy Spirit. This category of consulting services has been created to address the needs of those clients.

All new clients must be pre-approved and receive permission from Vinny prior to sending funds. Please be advised that after pre-screening discussions have ended, I typically accept only 30% of invitations to perform intuitive consulting services.

Please note that all contractual R&D and consulting services are offered on a prepaid basis only. For a very few long-term clients with whom at least 50 hours of billed prepaid time has already been accrued, I may decide to allow postpaid services; rates for all postpaid services are three times (i.e., 3X) my prepaid rates, and thus, 3 hours of time, instead of incurring a rate of $800/hour, incurs an hourly rate of $2,400 instead, for a total fee of $7,200 for the 3 hours.

All rates quoted for services are based upon prepayment of services in advance. Clients are asked to prepay in advance for all services. For large projects, I suggest that we break the prepaid time into smaller blocks of time so that we may each manage such projects more cleanly and clearly.

My intuitive consulting services are billable in half-hour blocks, prepaid, at the rate of $450 per half-hour prepaid block and $800 per hour (prepaid.). All blocks are billed in 30 minute (one half hour) increments with a 30 minute minimum block size for intuitive consulting services.

If you are a new prospective client, or an old client approaching me with an entirely new project, please do not send any funds until and unless you have reviewed the section above entitled A Note to All Prospective Clients and we have performed the requisite steps prior to proceeding. Thanks!

All fees may be prepaid using the Paypal links or other payment method on the Payments page. For example, a typical caller may estimate that their call will likely take just under 30 minutes, which rounds up to one half-hour block of time, for a total of $450. Alternatively, a commercial client may choose to prepay $8,000 for 10 hours for the first block of time to be applied toward ongoing intuitive consulting services.

As noted above, if you purchase a block of one hour or longer prepaid, there is no need to use all the time in one block (i.e., in one phone call or one project.) All prepaid time of one hour and up may be used incrementally over multiple calls and/or services spanning the next 4 years.

In all cases, my work will only start once I have received cleared funds as prepayment for a block of my time. If you are contemplating paying by check, please realize that even after I have deposited a check in the bank, there will usually be a delay of an additional 5 to 15 or more days for the funds to clear. Likewise, e-checks sent via Paypal usually take from 4 to 10 business days to clear for domestic USA e-checks, and up to 22 days for e-checks from foreign (non-US) sources.

Please note that spiritual coaching is very much different from spiritual healing; Vinny's spiritual healing services are offered via a dedicated website, on a freely-offered, donation-only basis.

The following consulting terms and rates apply for all clients with whom I do not have a current contractual retainer-based relationship, and reflect my terms and rates for spiritual coaching services.

All candidates applying for spiritual coaching services must have experienced at least one full spiritual healing session (please see my spiritual healing website for more details) with me. And, all candidates applying for spiritual coaching services must also spend about five minutes on the phone with me in a pre-screening call. Please be advised that after pre-screening discussions have ended, I typically accept only 10% of requests to provide spiritual coaching services.

All rates quoted for services are based upon prepayment of services in advance. Clients are asked to prepay in advance for all services.

My spiritual coaching services are billable in half-hour blocks, prepaid, at the rate of $250 per half-hour prepaid block and $400 per hour. All blocks are billed in 30 minute (one half hour) increments with a 30 minute minimum block size for spiritual coaching services.

If you are a new prospective spiritual coaching client, or an old client approaching me with an entirely new challenge/focus, please do not send any funds until and unless you have reviewed the notes which appear earlier in this section, and until we have performed the requisite steps prior to proceeding. Thanks!

All fees may be prepaid using the Paypal links or other payment method on the Payments page. For example, a typical caller may estimate that their call will likely take just under 30 minutes, which rounds up to one half-hour block of time, for a total of $250. Alternatively, a commercial client may choose to prepay $4,000 for 10 hours for the first block of time to be applied toward ongoing spiritual coaching services.

All fees may be prepaid using the Paypal links or other payment method on the Payments page.

Note: If you are a new prospective client, or an old client approaching me with an entirely new project, please do not send any funds until and unless you have reviewed the section above entitled A Note to All Prospective Clients and we have performed the requisite steps prior to proceeding. Thanks!

The photo above shows water buffalo pulling a cart at the side of National Highway 45 just southwest of Chennai, India. I shot this photo in September 2005 while on a 3+ week consulting tour on behalf of several clients in southern India.

If, after browsing my consulting and other contractual services listed on my Consulting pages, you are interested in my consulting or project management services, please feel free to call me for a free 5 minute chat so that we may discuss your consulting needs and to determine how I might be able to assist you with your goals, and, of course, if our working together would be a good fit at this time.

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