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Originally Posted by Red
You are either in business of unclogging toilets or writing up estimates. Make up you mind and choose your career accordingly, right?
Sorry. I disagree that new businesses struggle because they do free estimates.
And everyone values price. Higher labour price hardly ever = better service when it come to construction trades.
Get what you pay for in service industry is a sleezy sales pitch.
It can happen, but probably doesn't in many cases.
One thing I agree with is that working for customers that basically write you a blank ckeck is the best. No disagreements there ��
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As I said, I am not sure if I would charge to do an estimate for clogging up a toilet.
I would however charge to do an estimate for substantial plumbing work.
You are free to believe who you want, and hire whatever company you want. I just know that if you have a reputation for quality work most people don't have much of an issue with paying a small fee for estimates.
I should mention in our case the fee is less than 1% in value of the total project, and we find innovative ways of reimbursing it.