Re: Acceptable time from walk-thru to quotation delivery

["Crash Gordon" <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

IMO a week is pushing it...but it depends, if client says "no hurry" then
I'd say you'd have more time.

Couple of weeks ago I was given the bums-rush to get a bid in. I told them I
needed to see the plans. Took them a week to get the plans to me, and then I
got ONLY one sheet...just the electric plan. So I said well I better get out
there and take a look because it's gonna be an upscale mex restuarant...and
sometimes they do funky things - like no ceiling so you have to wire tie and
paint your wires black (stupid designer shit).  In the mean time they're
calling me everyday for a bid. Dood!... So I run out there...45 miles one
way on surface streets. Now I'm looking for the restaurant, I see something
that looks like it on the corner so I stop and go in and theres a zillion
people working..but the building doesn't match the plans I have. Sheesh. So
I check the permit for the address and it's not it. I'm looking around and
there's only finished stores and empty dirt...nothing else under
construction. So I call the electrician who we are subbing for...where the
hell is this building. OH...it's not in the ground yet. Its not fucking in
the ground yet and you're calling me everyday for a freekin bid? I KNOW I
won't even get this one too...cause there's two middle men; the woman who
gave me the lead and the electrician and my price was 4500.00 based on plans
only...waste of freekin time. In the end they'll end up with a 2 door 1
motion system in a 9000 sqft restaurant for 300 smackers.

I hate the bidding game, half the time dunno why I bother when I have
clients that just say...do it and send me the bill.




"Cam-man" <none@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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| Let's say I walk thru a customers place of business to give them a
| quote on a new CCTV system.  For example an 8-camera system with
| outdoor housings and semi-complex cable runs.  What is an acceptable
| amount of time for me to return the proposal?  I've been pretty busy
| and have some bids to do that are 3 days old, I don't want to lose the
| business because the bid is not coming back right away.  Any thoughts
| on this?
|