Quote help for some electrical work

[Taylortwocities]

I wouldn't expect that you should pay more because he is cr@p at marketing himself!

The thing is that its difficult to fill your day with little jobs. for that reason its often difficult to get anybody to be interested in the 1-2 hour jobs.
It is more cost effective to have full day jobs.

 

[JohnW2]

Sometimes if you cannot get another customer in the same day you have to charge a whole day.

You might feel that you "have to", for your own financial reasons, but whether or not a sensible customer would be prepared to pay for 8 hours work when you had actually only done two is another matter. Admittedly my clients are not 'the general public', but I'm sure that I would not get away with that with any of them!

There is a potential problem with long travel times. Over the years, I've had to dump a few clients who expected me to, say, travel for 3 hours each way to a venue (i.e. 6 hours travelling), participate in a 2-hour meeting/whatever and then pay me for just 2 hours!. However, electricians and other tradespeople presumably can avoid that problem, since I don't think many would consider travelling for 6 hours in order to do 2 hours work. The smaller the job one wants of a tradesperson, the more important it becomes for one to look for a 'local' one if one wants them to be likely to agree to take the job.

Kind Regards, John

 

[charliegolf]

Halesowenmum.... they don't know!

 

[ban-all-sheds]

So, I'm simply wanting to know if someone quoted me £700 for this it would be laughably ridiculous, that's where I'm coming from.

If all 3 say £700 then £700 is not laughably ridiculous. It may be more than you can afford/want to pay, but that's not the same thing.

 

[JohnW2]

Any number of manufacturers or opticians would undoubtedly quote me similar prices for similar spectacle frames (which, unless they involve precious metals or jewels, probably cost a couple of quid or so to manufacture), but I still regard all their 'quotes' as "laughably ridiculous".