Its just starting to get a little irritating. Im starting to get alot of "Oh well your kind of on the higher end of the other guys" can you do any better on your price?. I cant beileve what some guys are doing work for! I start to question if its me. Am I charging to much or what.
Tony,
you and I both know you are charging a fair price.
We also know there are plenty of trunk-slammers, hacks and wanna-be's.
Price yourself at what YOU
need, not what THEY
want.
Maybe I dont know how to play the game. When I get a set of prints I go through it with a fine comb. And I do the same when I visit the job. And I dont miss a thing. So I charge accordingly. I know a lot of other ECS put a lot of clauses in their contracts of what is considered extra and such. So when they put bids in they seem lower at first.
Like you, I used to, spend a great deal of time pouring over the prints, visiting the site, talking with the HO.....most times the result was my number being higher than the next guy. When the job was complete, the numbers were close and most of what I had added to the job was installed.
The difference?
I didn't actually do the job.
Of course, I am NOT telling you what to do here - just what I have done.
I now bid the jobs "per print" and everything else is a move/add/change [MAC] and priced accordingly.
If 3 ECs bid the same job and if all 3 ECs bid "per plan', the numbers *should* be very close...once the ECs start with the MACs based on thier own preferences and opinions - it's no longer the same job.
JMHO.
Not me I got a great Poker face.
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