05-20-2008, 12:42 PM
To elaborate-- when I have someone on the line who does good work and consistently undercharges, if they tell me 60 they get 75, if they tell me 75 they get 100, they tell me 250 they get 350, etc.
When I do business with a "professional" contractor, and the price changes in any way through the course of the job, especially for reasons that someone charging those sort of rates should have the expertise to anticipate, they've made their bed. In this case he wants to pass his equipment failure on to you? He wants you to pay more because the job took longer? No frikkin' way. You're not doing him any favors by feeding into his inability to grasp the concept of being true to your word.
When I do business with a "professional" contractor, and the price changes in any way through the course of the job, especially for reasons that someone charging those sort of rates should have the expertise to anticipate, they've made their bed. In this case he wants to pass his equipment failure on to you? He wants you to pay more because the job took longer? No frikkin' way. You're not doing him any favors by feeding into his inability to grasp the concept of being true to your word.