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Dean Lofthouse
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Did a medium sized fairly awkward take down today that I priced at £495, everything had to be lowered and two of us easily finished it in the day leaving site spotless.

 

Customer tipped me £55 which quite shocked me, she insisted I take it. She had just had two different trades in doing jobs, one was a satellite engineer to run a new cable. The job took him 55 minutes and he charged £500 and a locksmith to change her euro locks which took an hour and lightened her purse by a huge amount.

 

She said both men had a small briefcase containing their tools

 

She said that I turned up with thousands upon thousands of pounds worth of equipment, two men, and spent all day sweating like a dog without so much as bending the stem of any of her plants and obviously carried out the job Very professionally for the same amount as they charged.

 

She was absolutely over the moon and said she was pleasantly surprised when she received our quote.

 

Nice to get positive feedback

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that is the only thing that gets me down is people want are job to be done for 100quid when builders etc there bills are expected to be hundreds and thousands and they use half the tools and half the risk etc etc still its nice to get a customer like that who totally understands :thumbup1:

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bless her heart......:thumbup:

 

people like her bend over backwards to keep you going through the day, then most people with too much of everything don't even come and say hi, let alone a cup of tea.....£55 tip.....wow.

 

your right steve we are very undervalued,

 

got any jobs going dean................:laugh1:

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Did a medium sized fairly awkward take down today that I priced at £495, everything had to be lowered and two of us easily finished it in the day leaving site spotless.

 

Customer tipped me £55 which quite shocked me, she insisted I take it. She had just had two different trades in doing jobs, one was a satellite engineer to run a new cable. The job took him 55 minutes and he charged £500 and a locksmith to change her euro locks which took an hour and lightened her purse by a huge amount.

 

She said both men had a small briefcase containing their tools

 

She said that I turned up with thousands upon thousands of pounds worth of equipment, two men, and spent all day sweating like a dog without so much as bending the stem of any of her plants and obviously carried out the job Very professionally for the same amount as they charged.

 

She was absolutely over the moon and said she was pleasantly surprised when she received our quote.

 

Nice to get positive feedback

 

i took down 2 silver birch last week and i had a £50 tip..:thumbup:

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