Cancelled contract question

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I can recall a number of pre-contractual exploratory ventures Larry.

Some ended up a go, some did not.

Contracts, as you know, follow specifics. None of us have Xray eyes when it comes to 'old work'

If you'd like to forgo specifics, deal in estimates where you're simply aiming high.

Conversely , i've estimated church work myself, where the 'trustee' now forwards that they want fixed pricings, IE contract.

I had to 'splain the dif, and that i had to at all paints them disingenuous

I'll close with stating that, in decades of EC'ing, churches are hands down the most difficult customers i have had.




~RJ~
 
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Larry,

Personally I wouldn't try to get paid for the 2 1/2 hours I spent figuring this situation out. I'd submit the new proposal, include the 2 1/2 hours in that quote, and hope that they will accept it and move forward. If they don't accept, I'd eat the time, call it a lesson learned, and probably include some wording in the next proposal to account for such a possibility.

If I am in their shoes, I'm asking myself why I signed a proposal for work, and 2 1/2 hours and $250 later (or whatever the amount is), I still have no lighting. Further, I'm wondering (if I'm them) if the same result may happen once you tackle the next proposed solution.
 
I've talked to more than one EC who've assumed prerequisite charges.

A trip charge, a diagnostic charge , etc

waved on acceptance of job

~RJ~
 
Write em a bill the same way you'd do it if they were OK with it. Then take and write No- Charge next to the amount owed*. Eat this one and learn its a relatively cheap lesson.

*May be a tax right off...
 
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