On May 3, 2018 at 21:41, Fins said...
....the job is a fixed price and I screwed up and underbid it because I didn’t really think it would happen (they have brought it up every year for the past 5 years but have always said there’s no budget for it). So I had no room for an unpredicted problem. I was starting to worry this morning that we were going to have to eat a small HDMI matrix.
Are you saying you screwed up the initial bid 5 years ago? Or the recent one right before work began? Because 5 years ago would absolutely not be valid anymore.
Any estimate I give has bold text at the end "Estimate valid for 30 days". Prices change constantly, products change constantly.
Systems I bid a few months ago may change price and feature set, customer has to get a new quote and outline of features after awhile. And if it is a large enough job that it takes me a few hours to re-quote, that is another design fee. Not my fault customer is indecisive, I'm not eating the cost of that.
