Re: "paging system"

["Roland Moore" <roland@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I tried to help out a customer last month after the guard spilled coffee (or
coke) inside the LEF-3. I figured only two hours to swap the unit (with
drive time and a helper) so that's what I quoted and got a P.O. for that
from the customer. Well there was a little change in the LEF-3 I hadn't
counted on. The transformer changed quite a bit from the old LEF-3. The
PS-12A was now the PS-1225UL. I ended up spending another 2 hours getting
rid of the hum from the LE-Ds (running a ground wire & relocating some other
customer owned equipment). Since I quoted 2 hours I had to bill for only two
hours. So what ended up being about $450.00 should have been closer to
$600.00. I'm sure the (big multi-national) customer needed that donation
from our company to theirs. No good deed goes unpunished.

"Don" <don@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "G. Morgan" <alarmpro@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message > I'll explain why...
>>
>> You have 7 remotes and a master, so a minimum charge *just to run wire
>> per drop* would be $100 x 7 = $700.  Equipment cost is about $800 to
>> $1400+  depending on what they get.  So where is your profit?
>
> not much is there.
>
>> Only
>> you know the details - but you described a large commercial bldg, so I
>> figure 2 techs one day=16 man hours for the installation.
>>
>
>
> I have worked in the bldg and know it intimately... so I hoped I could
> knock it out in 1 day but I figured 2 to cya.  Trying to help out a good
> customer.
>