Architects invoice - Amount okay?

Of course, I do not pay for quotes that I have created and I choose my suppliers by comparison. I also do not blame anyone for taking advantage of these customs. In the end, the effort for lost contracts is anyway allocated to the won ones.

A few thoughts on this

[*]I treat services, especially when provided to me free of charge by a person upon my request, with respect.
[*]Professionals in construction know exactly how to earn their money between the lines. They like to write particularly cheap quotes on request. I neither waste nerves nor money on that.
[*]Therefore, it makes sense to pre-select suppliers; if then 2-3 remain, that is more than enough to procure a good price/performance ratio.

If this is nonsense to you, that says more about you than about me.

Oh, and if you get quotes from the shell builder, do you pay for that as well? He has just as much effort... What nonsense

That is the trend..... today you have to expect that every trade charges a fee for the quote. For clients: bad (at first) For contractors: good