Are we to expensive?

Off course you can rip people off.e.g. 90 year old,Mrs your tiles on roof have slipped. £300 job, quote £10000 ,vulnerable lady panics says yes do it.
Tells her family. Rip off ,call trading standards to investigate.
 
Are we to expensive?
 
Donzo said:
Off course you can rip people off.e.g. 90 year old,Mrs your tiles on roof have slipped. £300 job, quote £10000 ,vulnerable lady panics says yes do it.
Tells her family. Rip off ,call trading standards to investigate.
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Very rare I work for any1 older than myself
 
smoother09 said:
I’d never ask how much another plasterer has quoted while I’m there quoting it’s up to the customer if they want to disclose that information! I’m not bothered about giving silly prices a fair price for a good days graft is all I’m bothered about
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I don’t do it all the time because most of my graft is recommended. I’ve asked on a couple of occasions just to be a bit nosey lol, and when I have I’m always the most expensive one, but guess what I always end up getting the job. Last time it happened the customer told me I was near on a grand dearer, I still got the job. You have to know how to conduct yourself professionally and sell yourself correctly in this game.
 
Just to clarify you would be lucky to swing a cat in a standard size bedroom in a property worth 2-250k probably no more than 50sq m so 600 works out at what £12 a metre I think that’s very reasonable! I must be undercutting myself :ROFLMAO:
 
Cockney1 said:
I don’t do it all the time because most of my graft is recommended. I’ve asked on a couple of occasions just to be a bit nosey lol, and when I have I’m always the most expensive one, but guess what I always end up getting the job. Last time it happened the customer told me I was near on a grand dearer, I still got the job. You have to know how to conduct yourself professionally and sell yourself correctly in this game.
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I know what you’re saying I’m definitely not cheap I know guys up north that would do the same for £300 and very good spreads I just think there’s a limit where I’m happy to walk away for the day and satisfied with what I’ve earned! Unless I’m rendering then I do hit them hard there ain’t many that can s/c to a high standard these days as all youngsters ain’t been taught it anymore
 
smoother09 said:
Cmon it’s morally wrong to charge what you know in your own head will only take a days hard graft to take home £600 is more than any man in this trade should be charging for a days work! We ain’t doctors ffs!
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It's morally wrong to accept payment in cash, morally wrong to use promissory notes instead of barter, morally wrong to expect someone to graft twice as hard as someone else yet get paid half as much, morally wrong to value the time of a 30/40/50 year old based on the results of a test they took when a teenager.

We all live/work in a capitalist system (whether we agree with that system or not), that systems means you put a value on your goods or services. If your potential customers agree with the value they pay it, if they disagree they don't.
 
hector said:
i turned up to price an extension, knocked on the door, customer said i was plasterer no. 9, i turned round and got back into my van and drove away, and while i see where you are coming from monkey, it does not help our cause when we get situations like this
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I priced an extension not long ago, turned out the customer had a morbid fear of single numbers.
He told me i was quote number ten, i thought he might be hard work and added 50% to the bill.
i got the job and am now recommended by him at 50% premium. Turned out to be a cheery guy as well.
 
imago said:
Not really, they'd be expensive. If a plasterer turns up to quote for that room and says to the customer that it will be a grand the customer can accept or decline.

It's the same principle for buying anything, I think the legal description is "invitation to treat". The key bit being 'invitation' which can be accepted or declined.
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I think to make a contract, you also need to be of sound mind and not under the influence of drink or drugs.
That should discount 87.3% of folk on here.
 
smoother09 said:
Cmon it’s morally wrong to charge what you know in your own head will only take a days hard graft to take home £600 is more than any man in this trade should be charging for a days work! We ain’t doctors ffs!
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To some people you charging £450 is extortionate though mate.. but from your perspective it's not.. what makes you right and the guys charging £200 or £600 not.
 
McBentLegs said:
To some people you charging £450 is extortionate though mate.. but from your perspective it's not.. what makes you right and the guys charging £200 or £600 not.
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North vs south everyone up north has to work for peanuts because there still living in the dark ages!
 
The only people who think I'm ripping them off are my builder's customer's it drives them mad spending months on a project a me walking of with 10% off their profits in a week:ROFLMAO:
 
Pricing is difficult if I charge £250 to scim a lid on my own,and you charge £350 because you've got a labourer. A bigger set up charges /£600 ect, wotyagonado.
 
Donzo said:
I have 2300 posts in 8 years
You have over 300 posts in just over a month.
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I'm not sure what your saying? I'm sure within 2 months I'd hardly be posting? Maybe its a honeymoon thing.did you not post quite abit when first joined? I'm sure no im positive I won't be on here in 8 years and racked up that many replies,which I would say in turn your a serial poster bonzo
 
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Kinkyboy said:
I'm not sure what your saying? I'm sure within 2 months I'd hardly be posting? Maybe its a honeymoon thing.did you not post quite abit when first joined? I'm sure no im positive I won't be on here in 8 years and racked up that many replies,which I would say in turn your a serial poster bonzo
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Kinkyboy said:
I'm not sure what your saying? I'm sure within 2 months I'd hardly be posting? Maybe its a honeymoon thing.did you not post quite abit when first joined? I'm sure no im positive I won't be on here in 8 years and racked up that many replies,which I would say in turn your a serial poster bonzo
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Why won’t you be on here in 8 years! Don’t you like us:confused:
 
Went to a neighbor of my parents , leak in outhouse , he was quoted £700 as they said supply needs digging up , load of bulluks , hours work ( old to new pipe so have to solder ), our trade has nothing on plumbing
 
hector said:
in no particular order
1.went to price a job ,house was disgusting,parents swearing in front of there 4 year old boy,,cigarettes just trod into the carpet etc etc, i did not want the job, put in a stupid over the top price and i still got the job.
2.went to price a job , house disgusting,said to customer just going to get my tape measure , got in the van and drove off
3.went to price a job, somehow got into an arguement with customer over forthcoming general election, never got that job.
4.went to price a job, every thing seemed fine, then i noticed dog s..t all over the carpet engrained in , got in van drove off
5.went to price a job, got the job ,ended up attacking customer, got arrested and charged with common assault, fined 184.00 quid, approx 4/5 years ago nath,details are on this forum under i think got arrested today,
i and spreads my age could tell you stories nath,
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Do you use number 2 as a rule H?................just asking
 
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