So what is the right price?

[felixthelogchopper]

I got loan once from a bank, they gave me the rate etc, I said "can't you do better than that?" So they dropped it, saved me some money, moral of the story, you don't ask you don't get

I cannot believe all these people on here who are saying "I never drop my price"

I don't get offended if people try and chisel me down, knock 'em a bit off make them feel good.

If I am a chancer so be it.

 

I cannot believe you are using a bank as an example of moral business practice.

[arbogrunt]

ha ha

[SAM66S]

Gift of the gab doesn't mean you can do what you say.

 

Recommendation is the way to win jobs

 

It does when you know what your talking about & have a portfolio of previous work that matches it.

 

Id agree that recommendation is best!

 

 

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[Ty Korrigan]

In fact, now I have gotten to know you guys on this forum, I think I would bid super low just to take the bread from your precious kids mouths and see you all go under before buying your kit at auction...

[Dean Lofthouse]

It does when you know what your talking about & have a portfolio of previous work that matches it.

 

Id agree that recommendation is best!

 

 

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Yes...it is hard at first, it does take a few year to build up a big enough customer base to get the word going round

[Rhino1bam]

In fact, now I have gotten to know you guys on this forum, I think I would bid super low just to take the bread from your precious kids mouths and see you all go under before buying your kit at auction...

 

You should never begrudge a man's Next meal😳

[Peter]

In fact, now I have gotten to know you guys on this forum, I think I would bid super low just to take the bread from your precious kids mouths and see you all go under before buying your kit at auction...

 

It would be a bloody long commute to steal any of my conifer topping jobs.

[SAM66S]

Yes...it is hard at first, it does take a few year to build up a big enough customer base to get the word going round

 

9/10 of the jobs i quote are repeat customers, recommendations or have seen previous work before contacting me (after 10 years trading) you can usually tell what sort of customer you are quoting for before getting out the van!

 

 

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[kevinjohnsonmbe]

I had someone try that one once, so and so will do it for such and such if you can match it the jobs yours, I said if he can do it for that good luck to him, left the customer doing a fair impression of a goldfish

 

Like it! Of course the customer will 'press to test' your price, but it is a gamble that can leave them with egg on their face sometimes.

[daltontrees]

I've missed a couple of days of the debate. I guess it wouldn't have mattered much. But just to clarify what I said before, I am not undercutting people every day, and never knowingly anyway, and maybe my business sense is not good enough to always do good work (which I always do) AND make a good profit (which I sometimes do) but sometimes if I see a couple of blank days in the diary coming up I will happily price a couple of jobs a little cheaper so that I am busy and at least bringing something in. The only difference between that and normal rates is I make enough to earn a groundy wage for the day and nothing going back in to the company for a rainy day. I don't have high fixed overheads so it doesnt matter too much. It is what I would be paying a groundy anyway, and he's not complaining about the rates.

It woild be nice to be in a market where some of you guys are where you can afford to decide which customers you work for or which kind you look for. Meantime among all the hypothetical debate about keeping up industry rates to a fair level (whatever that is) and the state of the economy, here Objective One has been met (just about) which is we have a roof over our heads and shoes on our feet. I am providing for my family. The rest is, relatively speaking, hot air.