She says = waste of friggin time

Measure every window in the whole house means the woman of the dump you are asked to quote ain't ever going to go through with it and give an order.
Just been to one being done up (renovated period home from the 1920's) and this project started more than 8 years ago.
The place will be beautiful but OMG when I give them the price, they'll keel over, I can tell.
Waste of time. Do you get them?
Devil

All the time. When I sense one of those, I usually tell THEM to measure, and I'll give a ballpark figure. Some times, like you probably know...the ones you least expect to do it, go ahead, and the ones you think you have wrapped up, never call.

Right OT,
What I should have done was just guestimated the sizes from a distance instead of wasting all that time fighting in behind curtains,
beds, junk and measuring every bloody pane.
Devil

Ha... You get a few customers that say they want the best and money is no big deal. Well, when you show them what 900 sq. ft. of huper or v-cool is going to be....

Waste of time??? Not when 1 out of 4 of those customers sign But I definatly know the type you are talking about, Dev.

Or... you do what you did and 4 years later she calls you back and wants the job done for the price of your original bid.

Yep...They're all out there, it's like a game.

Pisser VC.
Chamagne ideas on soda pop budgets.

May all her chooks turn to emus and kick her dunny down!
Devil

This burns my a$$..happens with cars as well..can't figure out why you charge $40 more than you quoted them 4 yrs ago ...meanwhile they don't question why thier grocery bill, hydro bill, property tax inflates a bit every yr

Yeah, the funny part is that at the bottom of our quote it says in big bold letters "THIS QUOTE IS VALID FOR 30 DAYS."

I have no idea what you just said devil, but I like it.

i had one person ask if i used gila

What that means in common Aussie speak is rather derogatory OT.

It roughly translates to this........
May all her farmyard hens transform into massive 6 foot local indigenous flightless birds of Australia called emus (nearly as big as an ostrich) and kick her outside toilet down to a pile of rubble.
For her.

If you got that said you'd know someone doesn't have much time for you.
Devil

Never a dull moment when Dev's in the house

Whats adds another nice touch is after you go through with it all, and they ask, "why so much, they last guy was $50.00 cheaper". So as you back out of their driveway, you just happen to notice the bmw760 and the ford excursion sitting in the driveway of a 1/2 million dollar home. They call back and tell you that you can do the job if you match the last guys price, plus 10%. I told um to stick it, this aint walmart baby!

Hmmm... kind of like.... May a thousand fleas of a diseased camel infest your armpit.