You people posting in this thread, you think you would have an understanding of overhead and business costs. I guess not, because when you say you have companies come out and quote you "way high", but you find joe your neighbor who is an accountant by day do it for a lot cheaper... no shit. He has no overhead and no insurance, no workers comp, no warranty, etc.
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Originally Posted by Rochard
I'm working for a client and asked him about his choice of a hosting company. He told me he contacted ten companies via email. Seven of the never replied. Two of them replied with a spam email with a list of prices. One company called him, and thus got the business. (And I know this looks like a bullshit spam because of my sig file, but it's a true story.)
I don't understand this either. The economy is so bad, but yet people are turning down work left and right. At the same time I drove past the mall today - the one that is half burnt down - and there was not a parking space in sight.
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Why do you people act so dumb founded by this. Come'on use a little common sense. How many of those emails went to the owner of the company who said, "oh damn, another client i don't want any more clients, let me turn him down." You think you guys would understand how this works. Most of those emails went to a $8 an hour sales rep who doesn't give a shit and is terrible with getting back to people or just simply doesn't care. Some of the emails probably went to companies that were no longer in business, closing down, or are mickey mouse operations and don't check mail often. Then there is the people "in business" who should have never tried to start a business and they wont be in business for much longer. You find everything I mentioned in every industry and it has ZERO to do with the economy, if the economy is bad, good, or great. Shit has been like that for as far back as I can remember.
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Originally Posted by kane
The prices some contractors charge for things is crazy. A few winters ago we had a real heave snow and the carport on my house collapsed. The next day I had a guy drive by and stop to bid on the job to clean it up. He actually tells me to my face that we can work out a deal to charge the insurance company more than needed and we can split the difference. He bid $750 to clean it up and another guy bit $550 to clean it up. It took my brother and I about 2 hours to have the whole things tore down and stacked then took it all to the dump the next day.
When it came time to rebuild it I got quotes that ran from $4,000 up to $9,000. It was crazy.
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+5 who doesn't understand the cost involved with running a business. How much overhead do you pay, how much do you pay for insurance, workers comp, etc... to do the work yourself.... NOTHING.
There is a reason that the companies were bidding $550 - $750 they have bills to pay. Lets see, you wanted them to tear it down, load it, transport it to the dump, and dump it (was there a charge to dump, most places do) and it was two of you. So they would have had to put two workers on this, which would have likely taken them 4 hours to go there, do all the work, loading, clean up site, go to dump, dump, clean truck, return to office. They spent money on gas, the company had to pay for vehicles, ins for vehicles, and 8 man hours, which might have cost them $150 - $200 by the time they paid they taxes, then there is workers comp tacked on, cost to dump the debris, the companies overhead... Jesus christ, do any of you own your own business are all of you just retarded ?