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Originally Posted by woj
but why would you hire some company for a bullshit job like that and pay $500? A job like that is perfect to invite some neighbor over, pay him $50 bucks, knock it out in an hour or 2, and then spend the rest of the day watching football and drinking beer together...
at least that's how it's done around here...  |
that is neither here or there.
There is nothing wrong with doing that if you want to save money, your choice. I was responding to all of the people who think they were getting ripped off because they called a company for a quote and they thought it was too high because either they (or their neighbor) could do it cheaper. No shit, you and your neighbor don't have a business and overhead, you not claiming the money you make (save) from the job as income and paying taxes on it, etc etc etc.
Your neighbor also isn't insured. If he gets hurt you on the hook, he could sue you and cost you a ton of money, at the very least you going to be paying his medical bills. Here is one most of you are forgetting, what if he breaks something, your tools, or something on the house, etc. Who pays that, the guy giving you a hand.... 9 out of 10 times nope, you cover it. When you hire someone if they break something they own (like their own tools) it's their problem. If they break something you own, they are insured and you don't have to pay to fix it. What if he does shotty work, and you just have to hire someone a couple weeks later to come back and do it right. Your neighbor isn't likely to put a warranty on his work and come back and fix shit for free. Come on man, I can go on and and on. I just thought you people would have know all of this, obviously not.
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Originally Posted by Sly
Will, you claim nobody understands what running a business takes. The buyer never cares what expenses the business has, never. They don't matter to the buyer. If I can pay an off the clock guy $100 to do a job that a company wants $500 for, guess what I'm doing?
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Read what I posted above. No one cares about other people expenses, I agree with that. But that is not the problem here, people in this thread don't understand how expensive it is to run a business so they can then understand why it actually cost a good bit more to hire a COMPANY to do work for you vs you and joe the neighbor doing it yourself. The COMPANY isn't charging you a ton of money to rip you off, they doing it because they need to pay their overhead and god forbid have a little bit left over as a profit. They invest and risk a lot of their time and money to run their own business, most fail. Its a gamble they should be allowed to earn a profit as well. At leastly, the "high" price you people think they are charging you isn't because they are lazy watching tv, they need to make that much money to pay for everything.
I guess internet people just don't understand the costs involved with running offline businesses. Especially self employeed people who make money online. It's a whole lot more expensive to have an offline company. You guys obviously have no idea.