Shocked by peoples reluctance to spend relatively small amounts on a bike.

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cd365

Guru
Location
Coventry, uk
It was a fantastic deal, even 10 years ago what you did was worth at least twice what you charged. I can't believe they moaned.
Even then I don't remember being able to get a developer in for a hundred a day!
 

lesley_x

Über Member
Location
Glasgow
I'm a dentist so you can imagine the comments I get about cost. £6 for a filling on the NHS? Considering I give 50% of that to my boss for materials then pay tax I'm left with roughly £2 for a basic filling.

And I studied 5 years at university for this! What a mug!
 

ianrauk

Tattooed Beat Messiah
Location
Rides Ti2
I'm a dentist so you can imagine the comments I get about cost. £6 for a filling on the NHS? Considering I give 50% of that to my boss for materials then pay tax I'm left with roughly £2 for a basic filling.

And I studied 5 years at university for this! What a mug!



Go private.
 

SpokeyDokey

68, & my GP says I will officially be old at 70!
Moderator
I'm a dentist so you can imagine the comments I get about cost. £6 for a filling on the NHS? Considering I give 50% of that to my boss for materials then pay tax I'm left with roughly £2 for a basic filling.

And I studied 5 years at university for this! What a mug!


Help me understand please. Dentistry appears to me to be a pretty well paid occupation.
 

ayceejay

Guru
Location
Rural Quebec
As a landscape designer I was sometimes invited into a clients home, for me it was a good indication of taste, and I quickly learned that money and taste are not related at all.
To cut my diatribe really short if it appears to be desirable for whatever reason then people will pay extraordinary amounts of money for it.
"A car sir, you want to buy a car?"
"We have a Volt that is environmentally friendly, you might even say organic at £16000.00"
"Jeez that's a lot of money"
"Well then we have a Skoda at slightly less"
"What about that sleek black one with the chrome grille?"
"Oh the Bentley you mean, that comes in at £250000.00 after discount." gulp.
"And if I pay cash what's your best price?"
 

pplpilot

Guru
Location
Knowle
I'm a software engineer for the manufacturing industry. I have clients that spend upwards of 0.5m sometimes in excess of 1.5m on machine tools and nearly faint when we quote them £20k for software to actually make them work! 9/10 the same people have 100k worth of car in the 'directors' parking space that is loosing them money but begrudge 20k for something that will make them money. Mental.
 

ColinJ

Puzzle game procrastinator!
I once asked a friend if he would pay me £100 of every extra £500 of profit that I brought into his business (by promoting it online) but he refused point blank on the grounds that he "would be the one doing all the hard work"! :wacko:

I thought it was a very strange way of looking at it; if I could give my friends £100 for every £400 that they helped me earn, then I would jump at the chance!
 

EltonFrog

Legendary Member
I am occiasionly asked when I quote a price, lets say £150.00 for example "is that your best price?" My reply is always, " no I have a better price, it's £175.00. Whatever I quote it's always £25.00 more than the original quote if they ask for a better price.

Shuts them up quick.
 

screenman

Squire
I once asked a friend if he would pay me £100 of every extra £500 of profit that I brought into his business (by promoting it online) but he refused point blank on the grounds that he "would be the one doing all the hard work"! :wacko:

I thought it was a very strange way of looking at it; if I could give my friends £100 for every £400 that they helped me earn, then I would jump at the chance!

You got a deal, when can you start?

One part of my business is PDR, for this I can often charge £45 for 10 minutes works, I often get customer give me a tip on top. As one famous comedian nearly said, it is how you sell em!
 

EltonFrog

Legendary Member
I meant to add, never ever sound apologetic or defensive of your fees or quotes. Your price is your price, never discount, unless you are getting something in return. ( I have been known to discount slightly on my original quoted price in lieu of doing slightly less hours, but it's a very rare practice) never ever provide your services free of charge. Ever.
 

screenman

Squire
Dscount! go wash your mouth out, a very dirty word.

As a trades person if anyone asks for a discount I will not give one, if I did my heart and soul would not be in the job. I do however always offer a fair and honest price for each job, based on many factors.
 

ColinJ

Puzzle game procrastinator!
You got a deal, when can you start?
The problem is - how to prove how much extra profit has been made! :thumbsup: With my friend, it would have been easy - he had just told me that bookings were only running at 50%, so if I had done something to get them to (say) 80%, I would have considered my 20% to be 20% of the extra 30% takings since he had already covered his fixed costs in his original 50%.

One part of my business is PDR, for this I can often charge £45 for 10 minutes works, I often get customer give me a tip on top. As one famous comedian nearly said, it is how you sell em!
What does PDR mean? (I looked the term up here but there are loads of variations!)
 
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