That I am pleased to know that I am "not" the cheapest surveyor biding on a project ? 😉
Not at all. Just be happy it is not you choosing between loosing money or short-cutting the job.
Just remember, you cannot control what the low-ballers think their time and expertise is worth.
Not wrong at all. I never lost a penny on a job I didn't get.
Did the proposal requestor have the courtesy to tell you what all the proposed prices were?
> Not wrong at all. I never lost a penny on a job I didn't get.
^THIS!
Some have an excellent idea of what they are worth.
The bitter taste of poor quality lingers much longer than the sweet taste of a low price.
Pat May put us onto this:
"There is scarcely anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse, and sell a little more cheaply.
The person who buys on price alone is this man's lawful prey."
John Ruskin
Derek
PS- At least you can look in the mirror !
You don't want all the jobs.
Jerry Nave, one of my surveying professors in college, gave me a wise piece of advice years ago.
If you've got more work than you can do and you aren't making any money, you're not charging enough.
> That I am pleased to know that I am "not" the cheapest surveyor biding on a project ? 😉
I routinely tell prospective clients that I will charge them more than the guys down the street.
The trick is to do it and provide better value so you still get all the work you want.
More times than I can count I have had people call and tell me that my proposal was much higher than *** Company. My response is always "So get *** Company to do the work". Almost every time the response from the client is "No, we want you to do the job, we just wanted you to know that your fee is much higher."
Larry P
There's an old farmer story involving two brothers of a specific ethnic origin who get into the hay hauling business. They buy square bales of hay for $3 each, load them on their truck, haul them 200 miles, unload them and sell them for $3 each. After several such trips, they finally realize they are losing money. The younger brother tells the older one, "You should have listened to me. I told you we needed to buy a bigger truck."
Then they can go broke faster.B-)
