Pricing cock up

[daveindales]

Put a quote in for a job last month £350.00 plus VAT. Felling 1 birch and 1 alder. Client accepted bid, and we did the job a few weeks later. Leaves had fallen and the trees looked a lot smaller. We finished the job in a couple of hours. I took the cheque. Got home and felt quite guilty. So for the first time in 15 years, I went beck to the client and gave them £70 cash back. I felt a lot better for it and my concience is clear.

[Johny Walker]

Put a quote in for a job last month £350.00 plus VAT. Felling 1 birch and 1 alder. Client accepted bid, and we did the job a few weeks later. Leaves had fallen and the trees looked a lot smaller. We finished the job in a couple of hours. I took the cheque. Got home and felt quite guilty. So for the first time in 15 years, I went beck to the client and gave them £70 cash back. I felt a lot better for it and my concience is clear.

 

which bit of yorkshire you from ,up here its just not done

[ukminch]

 

Tbh I cant work things out on here, most of the time when the subject of day rates come up I find that nearly all the time I have the lowest rate.

 

But it seems that alot under price jobs more frequently than I do.

 

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.

 

R

[daveindales]

Wensleydale: Do you mean it's just not done giving the money back?

[Johny Walker]

Wensleydale: Do you mean it's just not done giving the money back?

 

yep

[White Noise]

Wensleydale: Do you mean it's just not done giving the money back?

 

I thought Wensleydale was a cheese :lol:

[daveindales]

Have no regrets. Hopefully get some more work off them in. I'm Yorkshire born and bred. Maybe I'm getting soft? Can't explain it as I've never felt like doing that at all in the past. Perhaps it was that they were both aged around 90

[daveindales]

It was also a ship. See HMS Wensleydale home page My web site (non tree related)

[Johny Walker]

I thought Wensleydale was a cheese :lol:

 

its a big part of GODS own county, so no blasformy need to get that spelling thing soertd

[White Noise]

its a big part of GODS own county, so no blasformy need to get that spelling thing soertd

 

No cheese was spread during this debate . I apologise for my ignorance