So what is the right price?

[Peter]

May I ask how do you know how many quotes the client is getting?

Do you ask before hand or what...?

 

Regards

 

They tell you....like as if its something they need to tell you

 

You must get calls from the same customers as me.......

 

 

I'm going to tell new customers that I'm only interested in quoting if I'm the only they're asking.....

[Ty Korrigan]

Well,

Allowing me to revise a quote in order to win it

I win, client wins, win win!

I won't drop my pants over a quote but I hate to lose over just a few quid.

Now...

I have just received our end of year accounts and as a result it looks like a new John Deere 1026R with wood splitter may be on the cards.

I'm doing very well here and don't tend to worry too much about what others are pricing at these days.

Regards

[csservices]

I quoted £8k on a two week job for five men, I was told he had been quoted £4k and if I could match it I could have the job.

 

How can someone expect you to drop £4k and still look at you as a professional

 

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

[Dean Lofthouse]

I'm doing very well here and don't tend to worry too much about what others are pricing at these days.

Regards

 

That's the ticket Ty, your price is your price, bollox to everyone else's price.

 

You could be matching a quote that someone has made a big cock up on

[Le Sanglier]

Makes you sound like a chancer if you do it any other way.

 

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.

[Matthew Storrs]

You must get calls from the same customers as me.......

 

 

I'm going to tell new customers that I'm only interested in quoting if I'm the only they're asking.....

 

I assume that's a joke:laugh1: there's accepting a fair price and there's being ripped off, if they're new customers how are they to know the difference, i'd personally go after quality rather then price but if a trades person told me that prior to quoting I wouldn't give him the time of day even if I was only planning on getting just his price anyway.

[Peter]

You could be matching a quote that someone has made a big cock up on

 

Winners Curse

 

The article is about buying at auction, but it equally applies to competitive tendering.

[Dean Lofthouse]

I have a pricing model based on my setup. I can go in and price a job fairly accurately. I could go back and price it again and get it almost exactly the same.

 

Why would I spend so much time getting to know my business for me then to add a few hundred on just in case the customer wants to chip me down a bit.

 

I would much prefer a tradesman I hired to be honest with me and tell me he has price competitively and he had factored in quality materials at that price and not cheap crap to get the price down

 

I personally feel someone dropping their prices to win jobs very unprofessional, negotiating spec such as leaving chip or logs etc is an acceptable way of cheapening a quote

[Matthew Storrs]

I have a pricing model based on my setup. I can go in and price a job fairly accurately. I could go back and price it again and get it almost exactly the same.

 

Why would I spend so much time getting to know my business for me then to add a few hundred on just in case the customer wants to chip me down a bit.

 

I would much prefer a tradesman I hired to be honest with me and tell me he has price competitively and he had factored in quality materials at that price and not cheap crap to get the price down

 

I personally feel someone dropping their prices to win jobs very unprofessional, negotiating spec such as leaving chip or logs etc is an acceptable way of cheapening a quote

 

Spot on

[Mark Bolam]

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.

 

That just means the bank ripped you a size 9 anus rather than the size 10 they originally quoted mate....