Are some of our brethren authoring our own downfall?

[Derek Hardman]

£40 for first hour for existing customers, diagnose and give a cost for repair without disclosing what the repair is, new customers are £20 more for first hour, get paid the fee at first visit, that way if they trawl the internet for prices and decide not to have the repair, you got paid for the hour you were there.

 

[tamz]

I would rather jump in the van and go on the scrap hunt, £4 pay would make me cry.

If you were taking jobs at £4 it would be time to jump under a van

 

[mountainman]

I'm only reporting what I was told and I have no reason to disbelieve my source.

If people are genuinely doing contract work for such pathetic money then it will only lead to them eventually complaining about others undercutting them and doing the same job for £2.

By all means plant the seeds of poverty, but do not then complain that the harvest is poor and your family starves.
(MM, proverbs 1.1)

 

[Derek Hardman]

I believe landlords certs locally are down to £25, might explain why I dont have many landlords on my books!

 

[mountainman]

I believe landlords certs locally are down to £25, might explain why I dont have many landlords on my books!

BG do them for free evidently

 

[Derek Hardman]

Yes, with a £25 pm maintenance plan, and the usual bonus incentives to staff for any extra work that happens to come out of ncs or 'obsolete' parts!!

 

[lame plumber]

As ever some out there do not know their worth. chatting to my merchant recently revealed a local lad who never charged for diagnosing a boiler fault but only the time on the return vist to repair it, how mad is that. I was could a cowboy last week for quoting a load of work that was done by the builder later and she objected to me charging £55 to cut off a hob ready for new kitchen. I still had to get there, provide an end cap tightness test etc etc. Normally it would be £65 for the first hour, but I felt kind that day!!!!!!!!!!

Have look at pimlico prices and reduce accordingly but not too much, your worth more than you think. I am not cheap according to people round here, but Im still working away and dont have to work as hard as those charging peanuts to earn a living, Means I get more time at home with the missus and her horses

 

[tamz]

Means I get more time at home with the missus

I think i'd rather be cheap :smile:

Just kidding. I love her :wink:

 

[mountainman]

Yes, with a £25 pm maintenance plan, and the usual bonus incentives to staff for any extra work that happens to come out of ncs or 'obsolete' parts!!

Are you suggesting that their business model might not be concentrating on customer satisfaction ahead of shareholder satisfaction.
Surely not.

 

[Dotty]

I think i'd rather be cheap :smile:

Just kidding. I love her :wink:

But you're at different ends of the country! And if LP didn't know, he does now!