I agree, and yet there are still those of us that calculate their fees in?ÿ hundreds of dollars for boundary surveys.?ÿ
Oh, right-- I agree a boundary survey is a luxury item.?ÿ That's one of the reasons I prefer construction staking sometimes.?ÿ I think there's real value in helping to ensure a plan set is executed correctly, and then of course once the project is complete you can see people actually using it.
Raising rates based on demand is good, but pricing based on value to the customer sounds dangerously like price gouging.
I think price gouging mostly applies to things that are considered necessities.?ÿ Nobody needs a survey.?ÿ Billionaires drop half a billion on a mega yacht because they really want one but nobody accuses the contractor of price gouging, do they?
I don't know, gouging developers and real estate speculators certainly doesn't evoke the same reaction as charging $20/bottle of water, but when a deal is being held up by a survey, and the surveyor charges 10 time their normal fee just because they know that 100 times their fee is at stake to the real estate speculator I think it is still gouging.
I don't think gouging needs to be a life or death situation. There are shades...