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Dan S

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I bid on this huge store >> fuel islands,canopy,parkinglot, and complete store..>> wrote up a bid handed it in ..>> and I thought they were going to feed me to the cow's....>> "why thats insane" how can you charge this much for this work..>>
well they popped my pimple>>
how can you charge 1.99 for a loaf of bread when i can get 2 loafs in town for 1.00?? not to metioned your gas prices.>>
one thing lead to another ..>> I told them I would take the bid home and re-work it.>>
so after a week of them calling me to see if the bid was done , i handed it back in ...
WHAT SAME PRICE???
OHH YEAH!!
okay when can you start ?>>
next week.( which was last week )
bummer why next week ?
ahhhh im busy you know you guys arent the only ones on the earth ya know!!!!
okay >> next week ,,

so that was last week ago job is done and upon completion the same guy who has gave me a hard time on prices
asked for the bill ... so i handed him a pre-made bill to match the estimate i gave him....
he went inside while I finshed wrapping up . handed me a check in an envelope and said well done >> great job>> blah blah blah>>>>
I was tired of him so without even looking @ the check I headed down the road to the next job<< ( dif.story)
returning home I stopped @ my bank to make a deposit..>>> HOLY RIPPPP!!
THAT dude that gave me such a hard time gave me 200.oo extra .... NO LIE
so i didnt cash it I got outa line in the bank and called this guy and said I think he made a mistake .>>> NO he says you did such a wonderfull job I decided to give ya extra >> WOW THANKS>>> He said how sorry he was that he gave me such a bad time that it was worth it....>>A lesson learned and there is more to the story but i think you know where im at on this>> I think we can all learn from this one way or another...

thats how I got mo-money>>>
No this doesnt belong on the blab section >>>
 
Good job!

Quick question...how much do you bid for overhead work like canopies? I don't think I've ever seen any figures for that.
 
Way to go Dan, You know more about what you can charge than they do. Chances are if they used someone else they would heve to call you back to do it right anyway and would have cost more in the long run. It would of been a mistake to have backed off of the price.
 
Good job!

Even after submitting many many bids over the years, I still get nervous when submitting the big ones. You always think you're high even though you've checked and rechecked your numbers. It's usually about the time I start thinking "no way they took that one", that they call up and ask me when I can start. You have to try as much as possible, even though sometimes it's hard, to remove the emotion from the equation and you'll think more rationally about the job.

Sounds like you had the better poker face with this hand Dan! :)
 
Good work Dan


I have had some of the hardest people to deal turn around and become my best customers, simply because I took the time to work with them. Sometime it's just a test, trying to see waht you are made of.
 
Is'nt it funny that we as humans alot of times fail this "test"

Dont get me wrong I am no Angel >>> But I feel that this guy was trying to get me to his level of pricing . which I didnt move . So I stuck to what I learned most outa life>>>>>>>>>>>>>
honesty . I dont think he liked the idea of me comparing his bread prices to my cleaning prices.

And yesterday i recieved A call from another business referred by "customer # 1" >>>>>>

the call started out >>>
Hey Dan this is ________ and you just did a store and canopy for ________ would you please stop in and give me an estimate.
HE said you did a wonderful job and I stopped out to check it out . and dont worry about your estimate what ever you come up with is fine with me. Im not near as hard to deal with as ____.

Wow ! how far will this go i asked myself..

So on friday I will go to customer #2 and give him a bid.

And to think I was going to tell customer # 1 to hit the road and dont ever call me ..

Thank you for everybody's positive replys It meant alot to me >>>>> I was worried after I typed this that there would be al kinds of neg. feed back ... Thank you....

Price on overhead canopies
I just charge by the hour>> I figured it would take me about 3 hours to clean it .......... And it took 2.5 (just canopy)
the whole job took appox. 6 hours I figured it would take 7. ( big-lot, big-store ) hope that helped!!!!!!!!!
 
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