Your estimated fees were too high and we went with someone else.
Music to my ears. We are pretty busy and I would rather work less and make more...
I also know the somebody else. I know they set a monument about 200 feet from locus in the wrong location by about 0.5' (good work holding the new street layout guys and forgetting that the lot was created when the road was private, ever hear of derelict fee?).
This is the same outfit that underbid me on another project, then called to ask what happened to the Benchmark down the street. It was wiped out by a plow, but I would be happy to re-establish one for you in vicinity for a fair fee based on my fee schedule not yours.
I hope everyone is doing well out there.
When a recent potential client of mine realized that my schedule and his schedule did not meet, the last word I heard from him was "outstanding."