Fit providers quickly check if someone interprets "request quotes" as a popular sport for the sake of their amusement and are then only too polite to send the request back with the plainly written word "asshole." The craft is slowly also learning to distinguish between "business people" and "sight people."And at least 3-5 per trade.
Savvy providers quickly realize when someone interprets "requesting offers" as a popular pastime for their own amusement and are then just too polite to return the request with the plainly written word "asshole." Gradually, the trade is also learning to distinguish "merchants" from "visionaries."
So I haven’t tracked where you live, but here in Bavaria, no 5 contractors send you an offer to choose from ... with 3 you call 8 times and get nothing, one sends you one and the other says he has no availability until 2025 ... and then you take the one ...
Whether it is "clever" to underestimate the working hours of bid calculators just to be able to wave more comparison offers around when playing skat, I dare to doubt. If decadence is taken as an indicator of the decline of an empire, we will soon follow the Romans.Then you just have to be a bit cleverer...