Re: Sanity test on pricing please

["Everywhere Man" <alarminstall@xxxxxxx>]

I thought you were losing your marbles for a minute. If you end up
wanting to go the DIY route again drop me an email. The price you were
quoted is accurate for an install IF they are giving you a parts and
labor warranty.


Bob Sisson wrote:
> 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....