Pricing cock up

[Johny Walker]

If you cant price a job accurately in the first place then perhaps your not as professsional and experienced as you like to think you are!!!!!!

 

i take youve got a few yrs behind you running an arb co & employing a few folk buying & maintaining £50k,s worth off kit ,chasing money,doing paper work etc,etc,etc

[Mesterh]

I've just had a chat with the accountant and we've decided I can't have a day rate. There's just to many variable with the different type of work I do..... He now agrees that I need to decide what I want out of each job, and work up costing wise to a final figure, rather than put an hourly rate on jobs.

 

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I dont understand how that will work.

 

You need some structure to cost up.

 

Unless I'm missing something.

[samtheman365]

i take youve got a few yrs behind you running an arb co & employing a few folk buying & maintaining £50k,s worth off kit ,chasing money,doing paper work etc,etc,etc

No not in the arb buisness, but it does not matter what type of buisness your in!!!!! you are either proffesional or not!!! if you really dont know what your doing and cant price a job in an acurate why prehaps your in the wrong trade?

but if you still want to stay in the timber industy but want to do acurate pricing i do know of of job going down the local paper shop delivering papers, then you might be able to put that 50k worth of kit to good use!!!

[Johny Walker]

No not in the arb buisness, but it does not matter what type of buisness your in!!!!! you are either proffesional or not!!! if you really dont know what your doing and cant price a job in an acurate why prehaps your in the wrong trade?

but if you still want to stay in the timber industy but want to do acurate pricing i do know of of job going down the local paper shop delivering papers, then you might be able to put that 50k worth of kit to good use!!!

 

so yr not in the arb job then!!!!! that accounts for your superior lack of knollage then doesnt it ,by the way what do you do

[samtheman365]

so yr not in the arb job then!!!!! that accounts for your superior lack of knollage then doesnt it ,by the way what do you do

 

im a manager of a timber company with a turnover of over 700k (its doubled over the last 7yrs, profits 5 fold in that time) now im just starting up my own firewood company

[Mesterh]

No not in the arb buisness, but it does not matter what type of buisness your in!!!!! you are either proffesional or not!!! if you really dont know what your doing and cant price a job in an acurate why prehaps your in the wrong trade?

but if you still want to stay in the timber industy but want to do acurate pricing i do know of of job going down the local paper shop delivering papers, then you might be able to put that 50k worth of kit to good use!!!

 

I wouldnt want to price every job accurately, otherwise there would be no early finishes!

 

Life's not that simple, plus mother nature has a bit to do with how are jobs go.

[Johny Walker]

im a manager of a timber company with a turnover of over 700k (its doubled over the last 7yrs, profits 5 fold in that time) now im just starting up my own firewood company

 

& who would that be

[samtheman365]

I wouldnt want to price every job accurately, otherwise there would be no early finishes!

 

Life's not that simple, plus mother nature has a bit to do with how are jobs go.

i rest my case

[Mesterh]

i rest my case

 

Care to expand that comment?

[Johny Walker]

i rest my case

 

now i remember yr the boy who,s bought loads of kit & going to take the firewood world by storm