Frankly...no. This job is gonna suck ass if I get it. There are possible neighbor issues thrown into the mix as well. My price was more than fair, main issue is possibly losing her brother as a client should the yahoo's that underbid me do a good job. I did about $4500 worth of work for him and his neighbors this year and have plans of a lot more as their budgets allow. If this guy is actually good at THAT price I can't see how he won't get the recommendation for more work as opposed to me.
That's part of it I guess, but I'd encourage you to stick to your guns, as they say. Otherwise people start to get the idea that you're willfully over charging and/or they can start to dictate price. If someone snakes it, so be it. He may or may not fare well, and even if he does this time, it doesn't mean he'll always get by without troubles. Or for that matter, want to do it for that much less in the future. It will catch up with him one way or the other.
We've got to run our own race.
The city is trying to play me against their resident tree guy. He's been raking it in for years at their expense on an hourly contract, but now that I'm about town doing good work for less, they are after me to bid. No one wins the race to the bottom. They put an ad in the paper and only got one bid....his. Funny thing was that he was so worried that I was going to get it, he bid way low and made an azzz out of himself in front of the whole city. They say that they’ve never seen him so low, now what do you think they are thinking?….yeah.
I didn't know a thing about it until my wife got bum rushed by council members wanting to know why we didn't bid. (There is actually a bit of a conspiracy to get rid of him.) When I heard what his bid was and looked at the work to verify, I told my wife to let them know I would never be that low. I've already politely explained to the superintendent that I'll be happy to bid anytime, but I don't expect to get it very often, I'm bidding to make money.
So while he’s bogged down shooting himself in the foot for pennies on the dollar, what am I busy doing? That’s right, I’m making money and enjoying my integrity.
Next bid that comes in for the city I’m going to be high and send a message to him and anyone thinking that they are going to pit us against one another into poverty. I’ll give his old rates credibility and thus lift us both up around here. There is enough to go around, why be peasants?
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