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"Default User" wrote:

- 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.

I can answer that. It was based on the fact that a lot of people
aren't going to get more than one bid/estimate so they won't know
they're being screwed.
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