Builder overcharging?

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Agreed a customer to be avoided,
if Erica walked into shop to buy a pair of shoes or handbag she pays the price on the sales ticket, She knows the price, "take it or leave it"
Why should a builder be any different

Because building work is not a pair of shoes.

What a strange comparison.
 
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If you had to wait weeks or months to get a builder, then that shows you are a customer to be avoided!

Andy
 
No cowboys exist everywhere, buts shows like cowboy builders make the people think we are there to rip you off which we are not. When asked if you had to had to get them back, your answer sounds like you believe all tradesmen overcharge. There is nothing anybody can do to or say to change your mind. When I need my car I take my car to the garage any main dealer will charge over £40 an hour. Its a lot of money now I will need the problem fixed and as I can't fix it I accept the cost as I can't fix
 
Try taking your van to fords, £105 per hour. But i want my van fixed and back the same day.

Andy
 
Agreed a customer to be avoided,
if Erica walked into shop to buy a pair of shoes or handbag she pays the price on the sales ticket, She knows the price, "take it or leave it"
Why should a builder be any different

Because building work is not a pair of shoes.

What a strange comparison.

Compare the price of shoes around the High Street or the Internet you will find there is a difference in price for the Identical ones wherever you go, and they are unlikely to change their price because someone else prices the goods lower, its all down to "Overheads" in Business


The same for a Builders quote, Different prices to have the same work done,
Pay your money take your choice. If you dont like it go elsewhere
 
Erica is right, but the same is also true about customers who get the work they wanted done at the price they agreed then try to renage on it and argue the cost down because the tradesman made it look easy.

edit: said she was right about her comment about having to be wary and sceptical of tradesmen, which she appears to have since deleted.
 
Yes also remember that a lot of trades men will have done a 4 year apprenticeship and a lot of these jobs we do day in day out , you are not just paying for our time also our skill ,
 
Not kept up to date with this thread but just guna chuck another 2p in, if they tradesmans van broke down on the way to the job and is £200 for the repair, where is this cost covered from if no extra money is charged on each job
 
Erica is right, but the same is also true about customers who get the work they wanted done at the price they agreed then try to renage on it and argue the cost down because the tradesman made it look easy.

I often have customers say to me that they can't believe how quick I work, I explain to them that after 28 years you too would be good at doing a job.

That normally shuts them up.

Andy
 
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