Electric billing - based on which principle?

  • Erstellt am 2019-09-13 21:18:58

Milo3

2019-09-17 19:30:56
  • #1
This craftsman lobby here is really something else. They justify exorbitant prices and expect you to swallow every toad. Such a crappy socket won't cost you 6€ later. The good man has laid his cables; it's not an effort to turn a single socket into a double one. His apprentice or helper does that... but yeah, craftsmen are deities here. I really lack understanding for that. A 30€ surcharge compared to the single socket is still okay, but more...
 

HilfeHilfe

2019-09-17 19:57:37
  • #2


Come on guys, you can do it yourselves! Or find another sparky. No one gets out of this!

And we all don’t know how the pricing stands internally. If the general contractor “exploits” the electrician on prices, then it’s clear that he isn’t willing to offer any discounts or fair surcharges to the customers of the general contractor.

Honestly, I would do it the same way if I were the sparky.
 

Dr Hix

2019-09-17 20:57:32
  • #3


The question here, however, was how you see it as an experienced builder

Especially since with the theoretical construct of the "enslaved sub," you basically get everything morally justified.
 

ypg

2019-09-17 21:10:59
  • #4
No, the question was this one:

The experienced builder... does he even exist? Or is it the one who has gathered so much experience during the many houses he has built, who himself runs his own company making profits with "economic" calculation methods.

Be that as it may: I keep noticing here that the builder does not want to recognize an entrepreneur in a craftsman.
 

HilfeHilfe

2019-09-17 21:13:27
  • #5
Live and let live. I chose a general contractor who sent a list of companies in advance and always emphasized that he has been working with them for years. The additional costs were okay.
 

Dr Hix

2019-09-17 22:34:43
  • #6


And now let's ask ourselves together, which audience this question was probably addressed to:

a) electricians who regularly disclose their calculations in this forum
b) clients who have dealt at least once in their life with one or more electricians and can take a look at the invoice or their offers from back then

This has nothing to do with the assumption,



but rather with transparency and business conduct.
It may be that in this case it is really a poor craftsman who is being exploited by his general contractor. But is that really the OP’s problem? Does the electrician even need to do that in the current market environment? Especially since the solution to this dilemma is so obvious that you already presented it to the OP 20 minutes after his initial post.

Anyone who calculates as an "entrepreneur" in such a way that he has to squeeze disproportionately much money out of uninformed laypeople in a bind (signed GC contract) for extras in order to survive, in my opinion not only acts quite antisocially, but also runs the risk of being ruined within a very short time as soon as 2-3 clients in a row question the pricing policy and react accordingly.
 

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