"Default User" wrote in message
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I had a fairly standard tree-trimming job, removing dead limbs from a
large silver maple and cleaning up some debris. So I get a couple of
bids from local companies on doing the work, such things are usually
within a fairly small range of each other.

One gives me a bid for $450 (about what I'd expect).

The other, bids $2500. What! Five times the other?

I read the bid sheet, they had the correct job described, the right
tree indicated, the correct address, all that. Needless to say, they
didn't get work. I thought about calling and seeing what on earth they
based that on, but in the end didn't bother.


It pays to shop around--try and find the one spends more time in working
than he does in giving out estimates.........

I have a local tree guy that I usually call during the wintertime when
things are slow for them, and after the deciduous trees have dropped all
their leaves--I pay him by the hour, straight time....charges me~$45.00/hr
IIRC.

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SVL