Re: OYE on DIY

[Crash Gordon® <NONE@xxxxxxxx>]

This guy deserves everything he gets.

I went by there friday (roughing in the house next door), the =
landscaping he paid 70K for looks like absolute shit...even the mexican =
laborers were laughing at it - and I'm sure their boss is laughing all =
the way to the bank.

I was thinking of knocking on his door and asking for my wire back since =
he didn't  use any of it.


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> You won't win them all, that's for sure.  Once I did a prewire for a
> contractor (did get paid for it) but when it came time to do the
> finish, the new homeowner made it clear that he wanted to trim it out
> himself.  He wanted a finished material quote, had two or three other
> companies out there giving him quotes on the finish materials as well.
> Turned out he went to Radio Shack and bought a system. Use my wires,
> put in his system, never heard from him again.
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> For sure you have to charge a little more on the next one to make up
> for the one you didn't get, but at the same time, certain national
> firms have given folks the impression that you really can get =
something
> for nothing, even though grown adults ought to know better.  Seems
> though that so many of them don't know better.
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> It's a tough market today for this reason.
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> Al Colombo
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