Re: Sanity test on pricing please

["Bob Sisson" <bob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Why a new configuration... I'm moving.  New house, much smaller, less of
everything....

Why GE instread of Ademco... I may not be doing it and that is what the
Alarm company proposed.

Home inspections are...uhm... spotty would be a good word.  I can go a week
with nothing, and then do 3 big jobs a day for a week and have a FANTASTIC
week... weather, interest rates, season, political climate all affect both
realestate and thus Home Inspectors.

Yes, I make a fair living, but I work for it... We all know about hot attics
in the summer, and damp wet crawls in the winter and the clients who are
spending 850,000 on a house and don't want to spend $500 to see what secrets
it has... Don't forget about the houses that are so filthy that you chnage
into a tyvec suit before doing the inspection (Yes, I've done inspection in
a suit, with a resperator and gloves on...)

I could build the system, All wireless, with an Ademco panel and the 64 zone
reciever and be done...Probably take me a weekend and a few knuckles,  but I
don't want to.  That would be my "low point" at which point I can't do it
cheaper.  Could someone do it for that price...probably not.. and I would
worry if someone tried to...

However, if someone listed all of the items at prices CLOSE to what I pay
and then wanted to charge for installation and keep any discount that they
got, that would work.  What I DON'T like is getting charged $150 for
something I pay $50 for at full price, and then charge me instalation on top
of that.  Yes they stock it, they have spares, and all that, so charge me
$60.  I would even go for $150 INSTALLED, but not both.

All I get paid for is my time... and I get a good rate...and I do good work.
If someone wants to charge me a similar rate per hour, I expect similar
quality work.  Oh and If I am paying by the hour, the cell phone stays in
the truck... don't be making sales call on my time.  Thats where mine stays
when I am on the clock.  Pay by the job, I might have my phone where I can
hear it...

Sorry for the rant....