Do people really think we are ripping them off !

[GMES]

Got a phone call today. the conversation went something like this;

caller-hi I got your number from someone and just wondered if you could give me a price for doing me a certificate on a takeaway I am opening this week, I have fallen out with 2 different electricians who have been doing the work.

Me - Why can't the electricians provide a certificate

caller - because I didn't pay them as I wasn't happy with them.

me -I cant sign someone else's work

caller what can I do I am in the s@?t

Me - well the best your going to get off anyone is a Eicr ( explained to him what this is etc etc

caller - how much is one of them

Me - about £ 200.00 ( days work he had told me how many circuits etc

Caller but it will only take you 20 minutes start to finish

Me - the only way it will take 20 minutes is if your closed when I arrive and I jump straight back in my van

caller - that's not the figure I had in my head

Me - well unfortunately it's the one in my head

Caller - your just trying to rip me off cause you know I'm in trouble

Me - no sir I am simply giving you a realistic price for a days work

Caller - well you can shove your price .

Me - Thankyou for that sir and you have a nice day now.


I couldn't believe it, at 1st I thought it was a prank
This trade is totally stuffed if this is how people act :seeya:

 

[snowhead]

And do you think he would have paid you even if you did it for a tenner?

What about going into the Takeaway on day 1, asking for anything on the menu and when told the price say,

"That's not the figure I had in my head, it only took you 2 minutes to serve it, shove your price,,, and have a nice day"

 

[GMES]

And do you think he would have paid you even if you did it for a tenner?

What about going into the Takeaway on day 1, asking for anything on the menu and when told the price say,

"That's not the figure I had in my head, it only took you 2 minutes to serve it, shove your price,,, and have a nice day"

Nice one Tel, I couldn't believe the front of the guy and your spot on about not getting paid by him I could tell with 2 minutes he was not the kind of customer anybody would want.

sorry snowhead thought it was tells reply

 

[telectrix]

Nice one Tel, I couldn't believe the front of the guy and your spot on about not getting paid by him I could tell with 2 minutes he was not the kind of customer anybody would want.

i'm not the figure you should have in your mind. it was snowhead that posted.

 

[Octopus]

So he's told you he didn't pay the original sparks - who needs customers like that??

 

[DNS1]

So he's told you he didn't pay the original sparks - who needs customers like that??

Would certainly be ringing alarm bells here!

 

[GMES]

So he's told you he didn't pay the original sparks - who needs customers like that??

That's what I thought when he said it . no shame at all in his voice some people really do get on my last nerve

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i'm not the figure you should have in your mind. it was snowhead that posted.

you must just be constantly in my thought's

 

[daveb1]

Out an out joker, yes i will come and sort out your mess for free mate, because you have knocked another sparks.

Well done for not telling him where to go i am not sure i could have held back

when he said thats not the figure thats in my head i would have replied, Sorry were you thinking MORE!
Would have been a different story if an old customer of a mate.

Just out of interest what type of takeaway was it?

 

[Guitarist]

Always remember, people judge by their own standards. If he thought that you were trying to rip him off, then that's obviously how he lives his life.

 

[GMES]

Out an out joker, yes i will come and sort out your mess for free mate, because you have knocked another sparks.

Well done for not telling him where to go i am not sure i could have held back

when he said thats not the figure thats in my head i would have replied, Sorry were you thinking MORE!
Would have been a different story if an old customer of a mate.

Just out of interest what type of takeaway was it?

Didn't find out mate all he said was it was 20ft long all though that couldn't have been the list of people he as scammed or upset

 

[oldtimer]

Its all about priorities thats why Joe Pubic will pay £1k for a 50" TV yet wont pay £450 for a CU I just say yep ok looks like you don't want me then and the reply is well you wont get get far with that attitude and I reply yea you could be right but I have not spent 38 years to work for supermarket wages

 

[Des 56]

But whats the betting,lack of electrical certification will hardly cause the pillock any hinderance

Do any of you have my opinion
Council officials and H+S inspectors tend to sell electricians short with their lack of enforcement of their own rules when there are disputes over cerification issues,they accept any and all sorts of compromises

 

[rdelectrical]

sounds to me like the first sparks done job ok he doesnt want to pay so they wont sign off thats when he found out he up **** creek then insults this guys experience and knowledge

 

[GMES]

This is what winds me up with people like him going around slagging off sparks when as you say they have probably done nothing wrong, but could end up getting a bad name.

 

[Octopus]

This is what winds me up with people like him going around slagging off sparks when as you say they have probably done nothing wrong, but could end up getting a bad name.

But unless you can hear both sides of the saga, who knows.......

 

[Guitarist]

Its all about priorities thats why Joe Pubic will pay £1k for a 50" TV yet wont pay £450 for a CU I just say yep ok looks like you don't want me then and the reply is well you wont get get far with that attitude and I reply yea you could be right but I have not spent 38 years to work for supermarket wages

Come across this all the time...People move into a new house with a dangerous electrical system, but don't want it sorting until all the carpets have been replaced.

 

[nickblake]

And one of the reasons this is happening is job agencies getting sparks to do EICR's for £30 quid and sparks doing it , its just like the Sticker pat test boys , it like an elecsa rep said to me at Elex in Manchester last year if your charging £150 for an EICR and a guys charging £40 then hell get the work regardless of the quality of the report , as there is no one policing it , and its this reason why people expect you to do it for nothing

 

[Octopus]

I've got an enquiry via my website this morning for a EICR, and after an exchange of emails the homeowner had the impression that it could be done on a 4 bedroom detached house in about 2 hours, to which I responded:

"With respect to the testing, to conduct a full and proper test of a detached house will take far longer than 2 hours."

I'm going to see the client tomorrow.

 

[nickblake]

nice one Murdock

 

[the pict]

Had that from a letting agent once thought a EICR was a paper excersize for £30 but thing is someone somewhere IS doing them for 30 quid and I think proper validation and control over the certs is lacking I mean you can download and print them like hooky dergrees makes the whole thing a bit micky mouse
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