On 2/8/18 10:23 AM, Leon wrote:
On 2/7/2018 11:50 PM, -MIKE- wrote:
On 2/7/18 11:34 PM, Leon wrote:

Yeah, I guess there's always that.Â* I can quote a price, if they don't
bite... fine.

Exactly and FWIW I helped a buddy do this type work for about 5 years
and we found that if there was a job we really did not want to do, too
many days to complete, he would bid high.Â* And oddly his high bid often
won.


I'm starting a big deck repair job next week which is probably too big
for one guy... or at least 2 guys would get it done in 1/4-1/3 of the
time it would take one guy.

There's another drummer I know in town who does incredible deck work.
He's been trying to get me to go in on some jobs with him because he's a
one-man-band, like me.
So I figured this was a good job to use as a guinea pig for
collaboration. We are both ship captain types, so we'll see how it goes
working together.

Since he does so much deck work so I told him to take the lead and he
said he'd spec out the materials and pricing. He said he thought it
would take the two us us 3 days to do the job and asked me what I thought.
I said, "My guts says we can do it 2, but it always takes me twice as
long as I think to do something." I told him, "Why don't you quote it
for the 4-day price and if he balks you can always say, 'Let me see if I
can crunch the numbers some more and I'll get back to you,' and then we
can quote him the 3-day price and we're still good." He thought that
was brilliant.
The client readily accepted the 4-day price, so we ended up with plenty
of headroom for this gig.


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