Re: Acceptable time from walk-thru to quotation delivery

[Cam-man <none@xxxxxxxxx>]

Crash Gordon inspired greatness with:

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

About a week is what I was thinking too.  I did the walk-thru's on
Tuesday.  I'll have them ready this weekend and hand deliver them on
Monday.


>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.

Bummer!  Man, that is bullshit!  You would think they might have
mentioned that the building aint there in one of the many phone calls.


>
>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.

That is preferable, but these were just cold calls, that turned into
real leads.  I was calling mini-storage places to see if they needed
service or upgrades and got hammered with requests to run wires and
conduit to new buildings and set poles in the ground for extra
cameras.  Of course, they need new DVR's to handle the extra cameras
I'm providing too.  ;-)