Of course a true professional like TMH would have looked online for the most expensive rate, then discounted it by 10% and thought he was doing his customers a favour!
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Ungrateful Bastards
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Poor old girl!, perhaps you should offer to take her out for a drink Dave but prolly she'll keel over with shock when she sees what an expensive hobby that is these days...
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In article , SS scribeth thus
Seems thats the nature of the public these days;(...
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The exact phrasing of the question is important I expect the people asked got the impression your wife was looking to share a taxi with them not offering a lift. Just asking the other peoples destination without saying why I can easyly see how this misunderstanding came about.
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Yep, and they were all scared to offer to share "their" taxi.
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"Och, son, we'll gae halves. There's ten boab"
Or was this before you moved?
Owain
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IMO there should be a Part Tea in the building regs.
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Another wanker who has never been self employed.
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I did have a 76 year old lady trying to beat me down on a quote yesterday :-)
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So, what was the actual fault ?
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The customers are on a pre payment gas meter and they were out of gas/credit.
Total wankers IMHO
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Does being self employed justify overcharging your customers?
When I charge expenses to my customer, I charge the actual amount, not some made up figure.
I charge a separate amount for my expertise and skills.
The customer knows what are the costs of 'me', and can also check on the specific expenses for the job.
You may choose to do it differently, but it cannot be denied that you're overcharging the extra costs onto your customers.
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Anyone with a brian cell charges a markup on parts.
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Really? I charge for my skills and my time; I don't charge an extra 140% on parts.
But hey, maybe you do.
I just wonder why you are so defensive about it.
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What the f*ck are you talking about?
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"ARWadsworth" gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying:
Now _that's_ funny...
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You got that bit right! ;-)
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If you don't try, you don't get. We don't have a bargaining philosophy in this country, but if we did no doubt the starting price would be at least twice as high and there would be people getting ripped off.
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They hadn't had a snowman stolen last week, had they?
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So you think Tesco should sell you beans at cost?
Re: Parts and labour - both are valid methods:
1) Markup parts and charge less labour 2) Parts at discount (trade cost) and higher levels of labour + admin overhead plus time (at labour rates) to obtain part. 1) is in my view simpler for the customer to cope with rather than a pointless excercise in summarising every internal cost.