So what is the right price?

[Le Sanglier]

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

 

No it just means they're in business, like me.

they gave me some old flannel about reviewing my customer status or something but basically like I said, I was just getting the best deal I could.

My size of my back passage, which seems to figure large in your imagination had nothing to do with it........mate.

[likeitorlumpit]

How many times have I been beaten on price only to see the job afterwards and see a 'bad' job. Eventually people learn. I'm prepared to wait.

[csservices]

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.

 

Well thats where I was a few years back, I was busy enough to cherry pick the decent jobs, the ones I fancied that were worth doing, but it bites you in the aris after a while, now I don't turn anything down

[Mark Bolam]

No it just means they're in business, like me.

they gave me some old flannel about reviewing my customer status or something but basically like I said, I was just getting the best deal I could.

My size of my back passage, which seems to figure large in your imagination had nothing to do with it........mate.

 

You seem happy enough with your system, and if its working for you then fair play, why change it?

 

My recommendation work and existing customer stuff is good, but I do find that some price driven new customers sometimes expect really silly prices.

 

They fully expect a job to take two of us a day, but want it done for less than £200, which doesn't leave me a lot of 'wriggle room', so I have to walk.