You know the types that call...How much to do bla bla and insist on a price over the phone and you have no idea of what the job is going to be like. Well I had one today and after playing her along for a bit she said "oh that's too much" and then she put the phone down... How very rude. What tickled me was the estimate I gave was quite resonable to what I would normally charge. What I was about to say before I was ruddly interupted (cut off) was "OK then best try to borrow a ladder and risk your own neck to try unblock yer guttering & downspout yourself. Then you will see why people don't do it for bugger all" but never got the chance more the pitty... Some people
I remember quite a few years back I was in a little village we did and a lady comes up to me n said I live around corner can you do mine I only have five windows so like an idiot I gave her a price she paid me there and then. Went round to clean them and each window was a bay with 64 pains of glass in each one (Georgian )and at that time no machines
Quote from: Smurf on December 15, 2015, 06:50:19 pmYou know the types that call...How much to do bla bla and insist on a price over the phone and you have no idea of what the job is going to be like. Well I had one today and after playing her along for a bit she said "oh that's too much" and then she put the phone down... How very rude. What tickled me was the estimate I gave was quite resonable to what I would normally charge. What I was about to say before I was ruddly interupted (cut off) was "OK then best try to borrow a ladder and risk your own neck to try unblock yer guttering & downspout yourself. Then you will see why people don't do it for bugger all" but never got the chance more the pitty... Some people IME people who insist on a quote over the phone just want the job done on the cheap. When they say they've got 8 windows , they almost invariably have a few more! Nowadays, I always say that I need to look at the job first. I tell them that I don't charge for going to have a look, then leave it up to them to decide, but it's all done politely and professionally.John