That's some good advice there gizzo. Painful, but potentially useful. I should probably be careful dealing with this person.
I wonder, though... So many people are stuck on minimum wage and other low incomes, but these professionals think they have to have awful amounts of money or they'll go broke, even if their stuff is paid for and their overhead low. And they can't stand it if they don't get that much. What, is it that they feel they can make more money somewhere else? They can't imagine making minimum wage at their own business?
Pride?Many poor people would be happy to get $10 an hour, much less $45 or more. Now $45 isn't too bad for a basic mechanic. It's probably the going rate. Don't know what the machinist charges. If he goes wanting $75-$100 an hour and ends up playing around till he asks
hundreds This stingy little stinker ain't gonna be happy.
If a fellow is good at something and want's that much for his services, he must not enjoy doing it that much.
Beggars... Ha... I'm not gonna be happy to do it myself, but, I'll tell you it isn't out of the question. And besides, I already have a
quote (probably not a promise) of $75. He has to compete with that. That's how economics works, buddy--competition. He has to compete with the other guy and
myself on price.
This thing is a mutual agreement. In sucky monopolies, businesses get to charge whatever the heck they want to, even to the point that everyone wants to run them out of town with pitchforks, especially if it's a necessary commodity. Am I right?
Competition makes the world go round. It can also make life hard when you have a hard time competing. If one fellow can't do the best job for the best price, someone else will. If he's a hard workin' man who likes to cut metal, he'll do it for a
fair price. Not necessarily an insulting price, but he'll be willing to work for his money.
Telling someone to F off because they don't want to pay Donald Trump's salary is not a way to earn someone's business. And, yes, I'm stingy and tend to DIY, painful as it is. I reckon the lot of people on this forum are the same way. We're warned on this forum to stay away from so-called "stealerships."