On Sat, 20 Jun 2015 21:06:31 -0500, "Terry Coombs"
wrote:

Larry Jaques wrote:

What about consumables? They're not cheap and people do expect to pay
for them. Don't cheat yourself.

I used one whole stick of 1/8" ER70S2 TIG filler .

A lot of shops have a small fee for consumables, like electricity,
Argon, filler, TIG electrodes and cups, etc. Others bump up the labor
rate a bit to cover it. If you don't, you don't.

A warning about discount pricing: Once people are charged a low price
once, they'll expect it from then on and they'll tell everyone they
know that's what your price is. It can really bite you in the ass.



They know neither my hourly rate nor how many hours it took . They know
only the final price . Which is all they needed to know .
The only time I ever deliberately raped a customer was over 20 years ago ,
a ceramic tile job . We both knew it , and we both knew it was just twisting
the knife and that I never intended to work for him again . That one was
about a sales commission he let another guy steal from me on a very tenuous
excuse . I had him over a barrel and we both knew it ...

Hmm, I mention taking care in discounting your prices and you come
back with "deliberately raped"? Interesting.


--
Find out what people will submit to, and you have found out the
exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.
--Frederick Douglass