Bobby22
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Profit is profit ......excess profit is rip off.It comes back to that same question again and again.
Why is profit a dirty word for so many people?
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Profit is profit ......excess profit is rip off.It comes back to that same question again and again.
Why is profit a dirty word for so many people?
Profit is profit ......excess profit is rip off.
There is profit and then there is misleading someone into paying over the odds at that point its a rip-off - you don't tarmac drives for old folks do you?It comes back to that same question again and again.
Why is profit a dirty word for so many people?
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There is profit and then there is misleading someone into paying over the odds at that point its a rip-off - you don't tarmac drives for old folks do you?
Because if they had been honest people they might have sold something else to the guy one day, they won't nowSo in your opinion what is an acceptable margin for a trader to make? 10%? 30%? 50%? 200%?
If they charge £50 for a job that costs them £40 to do what's the point in them bothering with it really?
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Jeez..Nick just stop comparing this with yourself and look at it dispationely
£300 is a utter nonsense. half hour labor at most + parts
Because if they had been honest people they might have sold something else to the guy one day, they won't now
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Like I said before perhaps they didn't want to do it and were pricing it away. Perhaps they have a minimum charge policy. I know a lot of garages that have a minimum labour charge of two hours. Perhaps the OP could have asked them to break it down and then we would have a definitive answer.
I'm not disputing that it's a high price but there are lots of possible reasons why it might be so.
Well the part is 20 quid , an hour to put it on £40 , I would have thought £70 would be more like it.So what would be an acceptable margin then? Or are you saying you think they should have done the job at cost?
are you in the pub? have you been there all afternoon?lol as its the only way your contribution in this thread makes sense.. unless a windup
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Well the part is 20 quid , an hour to put it on £40 , I would have thought £70 would be more like it.
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£120 an hour, I give up.
More than I got a week for most of my life.
Was told no you need a new regulator fitting...which he didn't. .. He just needed an adaptor which is what gaslow have sold him..
Displays a complete lack of knowledge by the suppodsly professional people he went to or they were indeed trying to rip him off by selling and fitting a regulator he didn't need..
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Isn' t your suggestion of 2 hr minimum charge .£120 per hr plus vat an example of a rip off.
If the little old pensioner wanted ,say, a hab bulb replaced. 10 minutes max start to finish. = total rip off.
By the way , do you get any repeat business
Because if they had been honest people they might have sold something else to the guy one day, they won't now
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Am I missing something here...
The op thought he needed an adaptor..
Was told no you need a new regulator fitting...which he didn't. .. He just needed an adaptor which is what gaslow have sold him..
Displays a complete lack of knowledge by the suppodsly professional people he went to or they were indeed trying to rip him off by selling and fitting a regulator he didn't need..
Have I read the op post correctly or got that wrong...
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No Andy, you haven't got it wrong.
Agree that it's hard to know all the circumstances but from the information available in the op post which is what we are all commenting on they were in fact doing unnecessary work , and if that wasn't explained then even by your own definition it was ripping him off..Without having seen the job none of us can say for sure but maybe the reason is that an adapter would do the job but replacing the whole regulator is the "belt and braces" way. Just a guess.
Agree that it's hard to know all the circumstances but from the information available in the op post which is what we are all commenting on they were in fact doing unnecessary work , and if that wasn't explained then even by your own definition it was ripping him off..
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It was expensive. I still don't like the term "rip off"
The only time I believe "rip off" is appropriate is if someone is trying to tell you that you need unnecessary work.
No it's an example of standard practice. When I was contracting in a completely different field to the one I'm in now we had a minimum call out charge for up to the first hour even if the job took 5 minutes. I don't think you will find anyone who works any differently. Ring a plumber or a sparky and ask them to quote you for a 20 minute job
Yes I do actually. About 80 - 85% of it is repeat
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You may not like it and I understand your views but by your own definition earlier you would agree it's appropriate in this case
Then why would most of us think we are being ripped off by you?
Come back to your own words again... the proposed work was unnecessary ..an adaptor was all that was needed... designed to overcome that problem The fitted regulator was working fine.The only time I believe "rip off" is appropriate is if someone is trying to tell you that you need unnecessary work.
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