Lost my 1st job to the polish

[Redvanman]

Well pi..ed off
Client spends over a million to buy the house then go with a bunch of poles to rewire it.
They were £1.5k cheaper and could put some one on site week before Xmas.
Tried to explain that I was busy up to xmas but could start after but they told me there budget was tight.
Having it re-plumbed, fully decorated, 3 new bathrooms and they've got a tight budget

 

[trev]

Know the feeling mate, pitching for a rewire in a similar place. The guy quibbled over £50 on the day rate.
These people are more trouble than they're worth, move on. Let the sausage rolls screw it up and he might ring you to put it right. You then have the choice of laughing at him or padding out your bank account

 

[amlu]

Polish, Poles.
They were cheaper and could start sooner, get over with it.

 

[Guest77]

Well pi..ed off
Client spends over a million to buy the house then go with a bunch of poles to rewire it.
They were £1.5k cheaper and could put some one on site week before Xmas.
Tried to explain that I was busy up to xmas but could start after but they told me there budget was tight.
Having it re-plumbed, fully decorated, 3 new bathrooms and they've got a tight budget

if they were 1.5k cheaper, what was your price?

 

[SirKit Breaker]

I wonder who will sign it off for building regs.......no one i bet.

 

[Guest77]

I wonder who will sign it off for building regs.......no one i bet.

There are a few on here who would Howard, and I am being serious.

 

[Geordie Spark]

Shouldn't this be in the "Immigrants" thread?? :leaving:

 

[trev]

A question worth asking, would you be so unhappy if it were, say, me who had come in £1500 less than you?
I do feel your pain though but it's pointless belly aching about it mate, put it behind you. It's the best way

 

[tazz]

Lost a few to the poles....but every job has backfired on the client. Especially when BC condemn the fire alarm installation because its wired in T&E, and of course the building has now been plastered and decorated. Sad, but aleast the building contractor has come back to us. and refuses to employ foreign labour

 

[Geordie Spark]

A question worth asking, would you be so unhappy if it were, say, me who had come in £1500 less than you?
I do feel your pain though but it's pointless belly aching about it mate, put it behind you. It's the best way

Holy Mother !!!!

Don't even go there!!

A Geordie and a Sanddancer to boot undercutting him really would be too much to bear!!!

 

[trev]

Holy Mother !!!!

Don't even go there!!

A Geordie and a Sanddancer to boot undercutting him really would be too much to bear!!!

Aanly a theory Fatha man

 

[Geordie Spark]

Aanly a theory Fatha man

Sorry Son ....... aahv had a hard day .. aah wesn't thinkin reet.

 

[Redvanman]

if they were 1.5k cheaper, what was your price?

£1.5k more

 

[Redvanman]

A question worth asking, would you be so unhappy if it were, say, me who had come in £1500 less than you?
I do feel your pain though but it's pointless belly aching about it mate, put it behind you. It's the best way

Least I know that you are fully qualified and don't just dump labourers on site

 

[trev]

Least I know that you are fully qualified and don't just dump labourers on site

Good point mate,

 

[tazz]

As my last post....clients and companies are getting wise to shobby work done by these people. And what goes around comes around.

 

[ruston]

As my last post....clients and companies are getting wise to shobby work done by these people. And what goes around comes around.

This is what will happen . Word of mouth is still the best form of communication.

 

[ImpededLoop]

I avoid cheap clients!

I hope he gets a good job from them as much as I hope he pays them on time.

 

[Knobhead]

I may have a strange outlook but isn’t the idea of tendering for a job was so that the customer can decide who undertakes the work?

You were over priced and couldn’t meet the customer’s time scale therefore you lost the job, what do you expect?

The bottom line, this thread is just sour grapes.

 

[Guest77]

£1.5k more

Well it doesn't help does it? I was trying to determine if it was a large project, 10-12k for example, in which case they may have priced it properly and you may have dropped a clanger, however if your price was say 4-5k then I would agree with your anger at losing the work. Comming on here with half empty information will not get you much sympathy from the troops here, We all like our fellow Arms members and Electricians here to do well in business and we try to help each other out, if your answer is short again in future I will stick you on the ignore list.

 

[Geordie Spark]

It would have been a whole lot worse if you'd lost it to the French Polish.

 

[R G]

Like most other jobs I have seen done by these clowns ,The customer as usual will live to regret it .then they will ask you to price for the remedials...

 

[R G]

It would have been a whole lot worse if you'd lost it to the French Polish.

Then it could get polished off ....

 

[Redvanman]

Well it doesn't help does it? I was trying to determine if it was a large project, 10-12k for example, in which case they may have priced it properly and you may have dropped a clanger, however if your price was say 4-5k then I would agree with your anger at losing the work. Comming on here with half empty information will not get you much sympathy from the troops here, We all like our fellow Arms members and Electricians here to do well in business and we try to help each other out, if your answer is short again in future I will stick you on the ignore list.

Touchy lol
My price was £7.5 which for in my neck of the woods is a competitive price

 

[Redvanman]

I may have a strange outlook but isn’t the idea of tendering for a job was so that the customer can decide who undertakes the work?

You were over priced and couldn’t meet the customer’s time scale therefore you lost the job, what do you expect?

The bottom line, this thread is just sour grapes.

over priced nope under cut

i don't use labourers as sparks

time scale was to have it finished by end of feburary

sour grapes don't come into it just fed up with an attitude of having to race to the bottom cos our prices will be squeezed

peanuts and monkeys

 

[Guest55]

do you expect to win every job you quote for ?

if not , why worry about the who , how or when you lost it ? just focus on the next potential job

and to secure a £7k job at this time of year i would have made damn sure that i got a labourer on site doing the chases , back boxes and floor board lifting if i could not get there.
with the prep already done i would have nailed the rest in 5 days or less.

the winners were just hungrier.

 

[R G]

I haven't had a job like that in ages , round here in Norfolk its hard, I did a job over 4 weeks and that was just over half that price , I would like to work down in that area again but I'm done with staying away from home again , still chin up , you can't win every job like Biff says ...

 

[Guest77]

Touchy lol
My price was £7.5 which for in my neck of the woods is a competitive price

Well they would be at 6kish then, as an estimater myself I susggest they have not allowed for any profit, they have some kit left over from other jobs and probably have no work so they are buying the job, you stick to your guns and keep to your pricing routine, you will win work, sorry to hear you lost out this time.

I have no idea how big the job is so you telling us a price of 7.5k means nothing really, without seeing a job it is impossible for any of us to suggest either way you are too cheap or too expensive, however at 7.5k and them at 6k they look like they bought the job due to lack of work, as I mentioned above.

 

[Redvanman]

MDJ I quite agree and I never alter my price otherwise it looks like you were trying to rip them off in the first place especially over a grand
I don't mind losing the job as they must be tight arses just a bit miffed about how I lost it.
next year I've two more similar projects starting so hey ho
Funny enough one of my customers is buying the house 2 doors down in January so I might have a sneaky peek