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[telectrix]

is it just me or are we all seeing customers screwing the price down? quoted yesterday, over the phone, connect up ( hard wired) new cooker. 15 miles each way, allowing time to check rating against 6mm circuit, supply 1.5m 6mm T/E, quoted £50 all-in as long as 6mm circuit was compliant and suitable for the load. she said that's expensive ,i'll call you back if i can't get it done cheaper.

 

[rocker]

Mate they're called misers and they've always been around! But you're right even the normals don't want to pay out any more. Gets on my nerves a bit and I'm finding myself sticking a tenner on my prices in a lot of situations as I know no ones happy if they aren't getting a discount.

 

[ukpablo]

next time she calls tell her its now 60 quid!

 

[telectrix]

perhaps i'll pass the job to antimatter so he can decide whether or not to put the cooker in the shed and export the earth

 

[ukpablo]

lol.......................!

 

[rocker]

hahahhaha

 

[oldtimer]

I hate to say she wont call back I had the same about a light pendant in a flat (2nd flooor) with high ceilings I said all in £45 as I was just finishing a job down the road and I had my big steps on the motor you are having a larf she said I can buy one from B&Q for £4 she said sorry about that I said but with the cost of petrol having to be insured then having to carry a drum of white flex because me thinks you do not want a 6 inch pendant when you need a 2 foot one and then theres the carrying the big steps up 2 flights of stairs o and where do you live again o dear that will cost me a couple of quid to park the motor she said forget it I will have a go myself no problem I said have a nice day yep you always get them

Forgot to add funny how you get these calls on a Friday cos guess what they want the job done on Saturday or Sunday

 

[robsparky1975]

i think they expect us to charge minimum wage,so based on the job yes that will be £6 all in ,oh thats sounds a good price when can u come around lol,what is wrong with these people,no disrepect to mechanics,but do these people complain when they are charged £100 an hour labour at there local merc or bmw garage?

 

[telectrix]

exactly. even the small independent bacvk street garages charge £40+ per hour and they don't have to go out

 

[Adam W]

I expect these are the people who go around saying "you can't get an electrician for love nor money".
Years ago I worked in a pub; the middle aged, middle class women would bitch and moan about having to pay £3.95 for a glass of wine - "I could buy a whole bottle for that down the supermarket" to which I would sometimes suggest they could do that, then sit at home drinking it. For some reason people didn't tend to suggest buying the ingredients and cooking their food themselves.

I don't know why anyone would choose to become a domestic installer and deal with these people.

 

[oldtimer]

I expect these are the people who go around saying "you can't get an electrician for love nor money".
Years ago I worked in a pub; the middle aged, middle class women would bitch and moan about having to pay £3.95 for a glass of wine - "I could buy a whole bottle for that down the supermarket" to which I would sometimes suggest they could do that, then sit at home drinking it. For some reason people didn't tend to suggest buying the ingredients and cooking their food themselves.

I don't know why anyone would choose to become a domestic installer and deal with these people.

These are my customers I treat them fairly and with respect and they return it so what more can I ask

 

[Adam W]

These are my customers I treat them fairly and with respect and they return it so what more can I ask

The cost of parking, apparently. Plus the cost of petrol, insurance you actually want paying extra for carrying your steps to the property and you want a "fair" wage which is more than what B&Q charge for the materials, so to answer your question that's £41 more that you're asking for.

 

[Amp David]

Had a call this afternoon from a guy asking how much to fit a new light fitting he'd just bought today. He said he thought he would be able to do it, but then decided against it and phoned me.

He was about a 15 minute drive away and wanted it doing asap, so I told him 40 quid. 'Oh right' he said, i'll get back to you.

I thought if you do mate its going to cost you another tenner on top.

 

[DurhamSparky]

quality!!! too many ****s in the world!! i wanted a pizza other night and i said can i have it for 1.99 as the co-op sells a similar version!!

 

[ukpablo]

thats what i do now, if they call bak its another tenner on top!

 

[rocker]

To be honest unless it's a big job (which I would expect them to get a few quotes for) if they DO ring back I just say I'm too busy now. People who are willing to ring around to penny pinch a fiver are the type of people you are going to have trouble with, and I can't be arsed to drive across town and do a poncey little job with someone huffing and puffing and moaning all over me, you know that you're going to either find no bonding and they won't believe you that it has to be done and make you out to be a cowboy, so you don't even do the job, or they try and haggle with you when you're there, they're ringing up every ten minutes because their bulbs pop and 'they were fine before you got here', they pay you with a bloody cheque, all for thirty quid? No thanks.

Told a bloke this week who I have worked for in the past and ended up not getting paid right and being surrounded by not-vicious-but-quite-pushy musilms that I'm moving to Sheffield (first place I thought of) so I can't do his rewire (would have been a tidy job but I know I'll have problems with money) I hope he doesn't see me driving about lol.

 

[DurhamSparky]

not-vicious-but-quite-pushy musilms

as opposed to what!!?? suicide bombers!!

 

[rocker]

Yep suicide bombers tend to be fairly pushy I find.

I'm sorry but I just don't like being surrounded by five or six guys who go 'just connect it now. No one will know' and when I say no they start talking heatedly in a language I don't understand.

 

[Amp David]

Yep suicide bombers tend to be fairly pushy I find.

I'm sorry but I just don't like being surrounded by five or six guys who go 'just connect it now. No one will know' and when I say no they start talking heatedly in a language I don't understand.

Know this feeling well. One time it got that bad I packed up and took the service fuse with me. In the end the chap paid up. Will not work for them again, no matter how big a job it might be.

 

[solo2771]

Talking of pubs, I was asked to put 3 phase oven in pub when I gave him a quote was warned " If I find I could have got it done cheaper watch your back" guess what I told him to do with his oven ? lol