Yeah... this is similar to what I hate... People just not getting what they want... My dad is a great example. He wants a nice boat in his head but he will go buy the cheapest thing that he can affored right now. Thus (bear in mind he was looking up 25 ft alumaweld boats) and came home with a 16ft skiff thingy... He really regrets it.
He wanted a truck and camper. He was looking at a nice camper and a powerstroke diesel w/ a stick. He bought a cheap second hand camper that literally had a problem all the time and a non turbo 7.3L diesel w auto. He hates both of them and sold the camper already.
He wanted a cheap car to get him to work and back instead of the diesel which at the time was achieveing a wooping 12 mpgs. He got a 12,000 dollar saturn Ion when I told him to get the nicer 15,000 dollar car with every thing (saturn has really cheap options). He didn't and sure enough a few months later he really wished he got the nicer version...
I just don't get why people need to get the cheapest thing possible. When I want something I research it, obviously finding a good price and readin how people liked them. Like my lights and tires... Instead of going out and buying the cheap walmart lights I got KC's and i love em. Instead of el cheapo m/ts I got my Mickey thompsons also Loving them. Why spend less on something and jsut get it cause you want it even if you want the nice ones...? I don't know get what you want the first time.
Like you said why get a cheap guy that will get it done but maybe not do a good job that will need to be fixed vs a guy that cost more but he will do an awesome job and will be there to back up his work should something go wrong.
I can agree. I don't always buy the most expensive thing. In fact, sometimes I buy the cheapest. But I do my homework before throwing down my green. I worked hard for that money and I want something quality in exchange for it. Several years ago I bought some new tires. $71 a tire for the front two and $92 each for the back two. For 235/75/15, the front two were aggressive AT tread and the back two were MT tires. A no-name brand that had a good rep. 40k miles later and the front tires look brand new. The back tires lost about a third to half of the tread. The problem? Now nobody can get those tires anymore, I've tried. Wish I would have bought some extras, lol.
Problem is, in the world of products (not services like this thread is mostly about) is that Company A will market Shitty Product #1 and Great Product #2 as such, but really only produce Shitty Product #1. Great Product #2 is just relabeled. So it's really hard to tell what you're actually getting.
Similar thing happens with our favorite car companies... they spend decades building a reputation just to cut corners for five years because their profits are in the digger. Quality goes way down and they still have that reputation, so they don't stand behind their products.
Sad yet true. And because it's labeled as Great Product #2, many people convince themselves that it is really better than Shitty Product #1, even when it's the same thing. But sometimes it works the other way. For example, Harbor Freight started carrying what they list as a heavy duty sawzall. I swear it looks just like the old Milwalkee sawzalls. So much so that I wonder if Milwalkee is actually the one making them.
And nobody seems to stand behind anything except a big disclaimer anymore.
I gave it up, I ran a roofing bussiness for 10yrs been roofing since i was 18. At one point I was 2-3 months out and I could throw out high bids on jobs not wanting them and still get signed contracts back! I had anywhere from 6-8 guys running 1-2 jobs a week then it all fell apart, my competitors would go behind me and tell customers theyd beat my prices by 1000$. Then it got to the point they would do work fork wages, so I walked away from it and went to work for a bigger company figuring if i was gonna work for wages i was gonna get all the other benifits to go with it!
Unfortunately that's what happens. Contractors get disgusted at what they're able to get, so they close up and go to work for a big company where they get paid, get benefits, and have less headaches. Which is why I'm trying hard to push the idea of quality work to separate myself from the competition. When I worked for my dad our crew used to make the joke "Competition? What competition? We don't have any, nobody else can come anywhere close to this quality!" Sadly, that was true. We watched one day one of our so-called competition come in, grade a driveway with a skid loader, throw some forms on the ground, and pour it on a hot summer day using set accellerator. When one of our crew wandered over on break to take a closer look at their work, one of the guys on the other crew made the remark "Oh, you came over to see how the big dogs do it, huh?"
Yep, big dogs all right. They were gone by mid afternoon. By 4:30 the driveway was bleached white as can be. So when work ended we all wandered over to examine their *fine* work, complete with an obvious "birdbath" in the middle of the turn-around and three 1/2" wide strips of expansion stuck in between the steps and driveway (they obviously couldn't figure out how to form it without laying a 2x4 in there). The driveway they did also didn't survive the first winter. It was like an easter-egg hunt in a hen house, you didn't have to look hard at all to find all of the glaring flub-ups they made. Oh, but they were fast and cheap....
I get it all the time, guy's asking to drop the per hour rate on the grader, my response is sure no problem, you supply the 300 liters of fuel per 10 hour shift and a new set of cutting edges, $400.00 for those, Sure i can drop the rate.
lol, yep, I'll do it cheaper too... pay my insurance, buy my tools.... but they don't want to hear that sort of thing....
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