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Originally Posted by djlnc
That supressor only costs about $100. Is your regular price even more than $525?
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cost and quality of job can go together, especially when labor and trucks and parts, etc are involved. Don't base everything on an Amazon single piece part. I have had several installers turn down installing amazon chinese products due to the responsibility of failure falling back on them as a professional.
I have a 60 year old house to bring up to code in garage, bathrooms, basement, and add ceiling lighting to 6 rooms, in order to sell. (you don't need to retire'splain that i can sell the house as is)
* 1 guy and a truck asked $3,000 with a gmail account with no company id, could barely spell, minimum detail, just activity. Chatted me up on golf
* another guy and a truck asked $3,000 with a gmail account with a company id, could spell, a little bit better quote, through not detailed. chatted me up on previous shared work experiences
* 1 guy with a shop, multiple permanent employees, company truck, insurance, with all code required parts listed, plus quoted additional cable/electrical paths outside the house. . email quote twice as detailed, never chatted me up on non work, added some ideas for me to be aware of for the goals of the entire project. asked $9,000. had his own email address, not gmail.
I am going with the $9,000 guy based upon 1) his detail on how he would solve certain constraints, 2) his contributions unsolicited about details of which I was unaware for the project, 3) his discussion about his cost structure as compared with the 1 guy and a truck. . 4) professionalism.
its not always about the lowest cost, especially with a sizable project which has code/ future inspection / resale price dependent upon the quality of the job. And basing a project cost upon a single piece amazon price is knowing the cost of something, but not the value of anything.
good luck with the rock bottom cost strategy