Agencies in the bay will quote you four figures to build it and a retainer to touch it afterwards. I build the same kind of site for £100 and look after it for £30 a month.
An agency price isn't mostly the website. It's the account manager, the project manager, the office, and the designer who never speaks to you. For a national brand that structure earns its keep. For a sparky, a garage or a salon, you're paying for a layer that adds nothing to the finished job.
I'm one person. You deal with me from the first message to the site going live, and afterwards when something needs changing. That's the whole difference in price.
Bigger jobs are still on the table. E-commerce, online ordering, booking systems: those sit outside the £100 build and get quoted separately, agreed upfront before a line of code is written. What you don't pay for either way is a layer of people sitting between you and whoever is actually building the thing.
An electrician covering Cardiff and South Wales, working off word of mouth and a phone number. The site puts the work, the certifications and a quote form somewhere a customer can find at midnight, without changing how he actually runs the business.
lewy333selectrical.co.uk →No retainer, no minimum term, no charge to change your own content. If you leave, the domain and the site go with you.
Send it over. I'll tell you what's genuinely worth paying for in it and what isn't, whether or not you end up going with me.