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Re: Going Rate For Install...
So Angus, Your costs and overhead, along with cash flow & profit, are exactly the same as the guy down the street?
AMAZING!!! Your right Precision, They will never get it. Basing your price on what everyone else is doing it for, is business suicide.
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Re: Going Rate For Install...
GOING RATE is an expression that means the cost of the average of suppliers of like products or services. The connotation is that the cost will be "no more expensive than the competition."
For goods, its possible to have this. For services, its less possible to have this. Yes, you can take an average, but that average exists as is only until one person raises their rates or goes out of business. So, what is the "going rate" for a box of tack strip? Now, what's the "going rate" to install them?
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Angus
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Re: Going Rate For Install...
Floordude,
NO. My overhead is lower than the store down the way. So that can mean two things. One, I can charge less and have more room to negotiate. Or, I can charge the same and put more money into my company. There are always "in the ball park pricing". What you charge, and what the next guy charge could be completly different. But, there will be more installers in the middle of where you are (left field) and the other guy (right field). This is what you can call "going rate". Just because YOU need $1.00 a square foot to remove and replace furniture, does'nt mean the next guy wants or needs that much. The original post ask what the going rates are. I'm sure he would take all the pricing into account, and formulate a price based on his area, economy, and what he needs to make a profit. Again, the original post did not ask you for you opinion about running a business. He wanted to know where to start. A poster like that should be comended. They're at least doing some research before just jumping into it. My advice, read the original post before you respond. Then, read it again. Too many times I have seen a ligitimate question being asked, only to be berated by some know it all who does'nt know anything about the person asking the question. And I am not singling you out. There are quite a few responders who give their 10 cents, when all they were asking for is 2. |
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LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Why argue, for the sake of arguing? You just agreed with what I have been saying. Still sour, from the last time I busted your chops, about your mislabelled subcontractors?? Yes, Union installers have a going rate. They are also employed, not independent contractors. So your going rate, is based on prevailing wages and benefits, right?
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Who said anything about unions?? Just because YOU say someone is an employee, does'nt make it so. People like you will never get. So sad. You really are out of touch with reality. Last edited by Angus; 01-30-2008 at 09:35 AM. |
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Yes, I know reality, in these trying times!! The only control you have over a contractor, subcontracting labor, is if your going to agree and sign his/hers proposal/contract. PERIOD Is it done like that.... NO, not always. Most just have not been caught. Which makes it more difficult for those trying to run a legit business, because the playing field is not balanced. Those exploiting their uneducated employees, labeling them subcontractors, when they have no clue what it means or takes to be a legal business themselves, and the cycle continues. If your practicing this, WATCHOUT!! Our government is in big time debt, and they are going to crack down on this illegal practice, or so I have been promised. From passive to aggressive, is what I was told. It is all about control, and that is something you forfiet, when you subcontract out services. Advertisement
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