Master Plumber Mark
Sensitivity trainer and plumber of mens souls
I get a call a few days ago from some pushy kind of guy wanting to know what it would cost to install a fleck water softener he bought on Amazon... The parts were being shipped to him and he thinks he got a deal at under 600....
I tell him to send me some pictures and I will give him a ballpark estimate to install your unit with no warranty what -so -ever....
I look over what he sends me and I tell him probably between 500 and 600 dollars....
Then the haggling begins..... I must give him a deal because its the only way he can justify getting something from Amazon in the first place.....
We go round and round and he thinks I am coming out to his home this morning to install his junk for 400 and he has a few other things he needs to be tossed into the deal I dont know about yet....... He acts all huffey and sort of feels taken aback because I wont just jump at the chance to do the work.......
anyway I tell him I will come out to his house this afternoon to look over his mess and then I go to AMAZON and see that they have other dumb-asses in our town who will professionally take out and re-install the fleck unit for a minimum of $475.00... This is for a straight replacement only and you wonder what extras are tacked onto this installation you dont know about??...
I am going to have to cut into the system and build up the whole thing......
I have to go out and look at this just for the hell of it .....
their is a class of people who think that they are getting a deal on AMAZON on this cheap Fleck junk, even though their is no one in town who will back up the product down the line....
We could have installed a MUCH better CLACK unit with a full warranty for what near he is going to have to pay ....
So let the haggling and bickering begin......
I will probably walk away from this and tell him to get some handy man from Craigs list
I tell him to send me some pictures and I will give him a ballpark estimate to install your unit with no warranty what -so -ever....
I look over what he sends me and I tell him probably between 500 and 600 dollars....
Then the haggling begins..... I must give him a deal because its the only way he can justify getting something from Amazon in the first place.....
We go round and round and he thinks I am coming out to his home this morning to install his junk for 400 and he has a few other things he needs to be tossed into the deal I dont know about yet....... He acts all huffey and sort of feels taken aback because I wont just jump at the chance to do the work.......
anyway I tell him I will come out to his house this afternoon to look over his mess and then I go to AMAZON and see that they have other dumb-asses in our town who will professionally take out and re-install the fleck unit for a minimum of $475.00... This is for a straight replacement only and you wonder what extras are tacked onto this installation you dont know about??...
I am going to have to cut into the system and build up the whole thing......
I have to go out and look at this just for the hell of it .....
their is a class of people who think that they are getting a deal on AMAZON on this cheap Fleck junk, even though their is no one in town who will back up the product down the line....
We could have installed a MUCH better CLACK unit with a full warranty for what near he is going to have to pay ....
So let the haggling and bickering begin......
I will probably walk away from this and tell him to get some handy man from Craigs list
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