On April 11, 2016 at 13:38, Brad Humphrey said...
No Ernie, I was replying to your statement as standalone. I thought you were saying 'your' client won't spend the money for the pre-made part (buying from you), nor would they be willing to pay you the correct amount of money to make a piece either.
So I was commenting over your customer's response. Which may or may not now be the case.
The typed word... no wonder religion can go so many different ways, based on one's interpretation. Love thy neighbor, kill a few million non-believers, meh...
That's how I read it too.
Given a choice of designig DIY, kustom box, vs. purchasing one off the shelf with only a $100 difference is a no brainer.
My suggestion for client sourcing quipment had to do with you stating that the item would be $300-$400 in both parts and labor -- not some multi-thousand dollar project.
Lastly, we all have many examples where client didn't want to pay us retail prices for BD players, TVs, Roku or what-have-ya, and we had the client source it, order it, get it delivered and call us for installation.
On those small price items I always come out ahead by not having to roll the truck for free when something goes wrong.
Those cheap clients paid me to hang a TV, and unless the TV is laying on the floor, anything else is no longer my problem.
Any support now becomes a billable time and another source of revenue.
