Found this message. Thinking I will not even bother responding. Your opinions are welcomed.
Ring, Ring
(answering machine turns on)
Her: Hi, this is Minnie Problumz. I need to see about having you do a survey for us in beautiful downtown O.V. It should be real simple. We called one other place that does surveys and they were ridiculously expensive. We asked at the courthouse and was given your name as another surveyor who sometimes works in this county. We could probably afford a couple hundred dollars to find our boundaries. Those other guys must be con artists. Please call me back.
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FYI, beautiful downtown O.V. consists of about four or five blocks in a somewhat triangular shape that today has maybe that many houses or less, and some of those probably haven't been lived in for over 50 years. The trip to the courthouse is about 85 miles from my office. Then back to O.V. is about another 25 miles to start the search for any possible monumentation. I'm sure we would have to tie into some section lines which could be quite a challenge even after all the leaves come off the trees as none of the roads follow the section lines(well, maybe one does). I'm fairly certain that any conversation with her will add my name to the list of shyster surveyors she will warn others to avoid.
Blue-light shoppers - pass on it!
OK, you have some options:
Really. You do.
Ignore. This basically leaves her guessing what you might have done.
(This brings to mind an old tale, my dad used to tell, about marriage, "My marriage is ok , except I cannot seem to get rid of the other men in my wife's head, the one I could have married, the one I should have married, and the one I did marry") But, I digress.
So, I suggest, that if you don't want the job, that you call her back, and tell her that it is not an easy task to survey in her neighborhood.
That it is very expensive, and that your price will probably be higher than the other guy.
This way, IF the other guys do it, at least she knows it was a bargain, at any cost.
I call it "Making a contribution to the survey community".
Surveyor A priced it at 4500
Surveyor B priced it at 3250
And, Surveyor C, (That's me) prices it at $5526.53.
Now, she Thinks she got a bargain at 3250, and I did not undercut anybody.
Just use it to tell her what a bargain she is getting!
N
Reminds me of another story:
COMMUNICATION:
A little girl and a little boy were at daycare.
The girl approached the boy and said, "Hey Johnny, wanna play house?"
He said, "Sure! What do you want me to do?"
The girl replied, "I want you to communicate."
He said to her, "That word is too big. I have no idea what it means."
The little girl smirked and said, "Perfect. You can be the husband!"
OK, you have some options:.... OR
Mr. Cow has two more options.
1) Run away.
2) Run away really fast!!
😀
I would probably call her back and just let her know that it would not be cost effective for you to perform the survey for her.
You never know who she might know, and just calling her back might pay dividends in the future.