Electrical Estimating.

They were more than interesting times, I saw the “successful bidders” trash their lives.

They got the work, but bought it and could not make it pay. A couple of firms went bust, people lost their jobs and homes due to financial difficulties and family rows that led to divorce in one case, in one case I think it also contributed to one of the customers eventually committing suicide. We did a lot of work for his father without quoting costs, just supplying detailed invoices, but they had to get several quotes for a grant aided job, then there was a family decision to go with a much lower quote. Years later the guy told me it was a big mistake and they should have just let us carry on doing what needed doing and sending a bill as there weren’t any arguments in his family about what should be done and how, it just happened and they paid the bills without being ripped off. Eventually all the arguments pushed him over the edge.


Apparently trivial things can have huge consequences, that guys family ended up paying out what I said the job would cost to get it finished, but the heartache it caused to the contractors and their families as well as the disputes it caused in the customers family just weren’t worth the supposed savings that could be made.


It was the best thing I ever did walking away rather than suggesting we could lower the quote.


Andy 

They were more than interesting times, I saw the “successful bidders” trash their lives.

They got the work, but bought it and could not make it pay. A couple of firms went bust, people lost their jobs and homes due to financial difficulties and family rows that led to divorce in one case, in one case I think it also contributed to one of the customers eventually committing suicide. We did a lot of work for his father without quoting costs, just supplying detailed invoices, but they had to get several quotes for a grant aided job, then there was a family decision to go with a much lower quote. Years later the guy told me it was a big mistake and they should have just let us carry on doing what needed doing and sending a bill as there weren’t any arguments in his family about what should be done and how, it just happened and they paid the bills without being ripped off. Eventually all the arguments pushed him over the edge.


Apparently trivial things can have huge consequences, that guys family ended up paying out what I said the job would cost to get it finished, but the heartache it caused to the contractors and their families as well as the disputes it caused in the customers family just weren’t worth the supposed savings that could be made.


It was the best thing I ever did walking away rather than suggesting we could lower the quote.


Andy