for wage or fame????

[Rupe]

Dont forget that the other guy didnt charge £1500 he just quoted £1500. Every now and then I go and quote for a job and if theres something I just dont like about it, like quoting to another trade rather than to the customer directly, I might well put in a high price so that the other tradesman cant add much on.

 

If the guy had quoted you a fair 4-500 you could have stuck 100 on top and done no work for it at all, they way he quoted meant you had to pull your finger out and do some work, so you got a share of £250 but worked for it as apposed to £100 for doing nothing.

 

I think he did the right thing. If he wanted the work it woud have been a lesser quote, but as I say, he did charge £1500 for the job and probably doesnt ever charge that much, he gets paid for quotes that he wins and I bet they are all a lot less than that, and for the jobs he actually wants.

[stewie]

Dont forget that the other guy didnt charge £1500 he just quoted £1500. Every now and then I go and quote for a job and if theres something I just dont like about it, like quoting to another trade rather than to the customer directly, I might well put in a high price so that the other tradesman cant add much on.

 

If the guy had quoted you a fair 4-500 you could have stuck 100 on top and done no work for it at all, they way he quoted meant you had to pull your finger out and do some work, so you got a share of £250 but worked for it as apposed to £100 for doing nothing.

 

I think he did the right thing. If he wanted the work it woud have been a lesser quote, but as I say, he did charge £1500 for the job and probably doesnt ever charge that much, he gets paid for quotes that he wins and I bet they are all a lot less than that, and for the jobs he actually wants.

well i guess thats true mate but in fairness i said to him the jobs was all his as he had lads with him.....i dont know maybe im just lucky to have a good friend who happens to be an arborist.......i also have a sore head from the party i went to last night prior to posting this one........ but i think you all have read between the lines well.....just made me laugh how someone can quote a job for 2days and be a grand more but has now lost work and a fair bit of wood if he said right ill bang it down for you now........works work at the end of the day mate.......

[Rupe]

What, you expecting him to do the work there and then?

 

And he turned up with blokes ready to work?

 

Sounds like a right dodgy outfit and a dodgy way to go about things, no wonder he said £1500.

 

He wasnt a grand more, you were a grand less. His price just made you look cheap, whereas you were quite expensive. If I had quoted £300 it would make you look like you were stealing.

 

Its all relative. Dont give a second thought to what others quote for work, the prices on the jobs they dont get are not relevant,, its the prices of the jobs that get accepted that matter, and yours got accepted for £500, and got done in a time that converted that price to profit, well done, thats what tree surgery is., no more than that. Many jobs dont get done in the time we would like them too, so as long as the good ones cover the bad its all good. Maybe the other guy had had a few bad ones recently and was trying to make up lost ground, who knows, who cares.

[stewie]

The plus vat to him doesn't make a difference. He has to charge it but he doesn't actually get it as that's the vat mans cut! Emphasising that doesn't really make it negative.

 

The situation in the first half of the post. If that was what £500 was. That's about right! To get that many logs it sounds more like half a tree than just a limb

yeah it was a fair old limb lol was from a fork in the trunk about 8ft up then right up to around 30ft with branches coming of it all the way up.......never took a pic but a quick look on google and found similar.....

 

imagine the stem to the left of the tree as you look at it but over a greenhouse and summer house.........PS the tree wasnt protected in any way at all.....

[Tony Knight]

Don't know anything about how you fellas price stuff up and I have no idea in your currency and climate whether 500 pound is fair or not but I do a lot of quoting over here with civil and agricultural contracting. When gear and multiple employees are involved a minimum applies, 1/2 day, full day, why? Because by the time we get organised get gear there unpack set up do the job and pack up again a half/full day has gone at least. Money is made on full day jobs and extras not driving around for the better part of the day for a number of jobs. Its purely a question of remaining legally, ethically, fiscally and physically viable. We know whats fair and whats not when where quoting based on the margins required to sustain the business. We also rely solely on word of mouth.

 

Cheers,

 

 

Tony

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

Horse chestnut....

 

"Good load of logs"

 

Not 2 phrases I'd normally put in the same sentence....