With all due respect the format for quoting prices in a contractual context without ever meeting, talking to, or seeing a requester's property when the matter at hand involves guaranteed variation from building to building, it's just a really awkward format to have an anonymous individual post a text question about something of which they know nothing and their only point of reference in the end is a dollar amount, in my opinion begs for misunderstandings.
It's not like a service provider is quoting prices for a pound of wheat shipped ala eBay when that is not what is going on here at all.
Secondly, since I am on a roll here....
The concept whereby a potential client specifies a date and time to have something completed, when the provider has a little text information at best,
and then the provider has to quote a dollar amount and date and time when you don't even know for a few days whether you've been selected, means the provider has to hold a time slot, maybe a whole day open in their future schedule "just in case" some requester accepts a quote,
Forgive me, it's all kind of weird. I don't get this format of back and forth unless I merely quote an hourly rate and an in initial service charge just to come out and "take a look" to try and decifer what the h the customer is talking about.
This all smacks of a format where the client is going to accept the low bid every time and that's just begging for trouble for both parties.
With all due respect the format for quoting prices in a contractual context without ever meeting, talking to, or seeing a requester's property when the matter at hand involves guaranteed variation from building to building, it's just a really awkward format to have an anonymous individual post a text question about something of which they know nothing and their only point of reference in the end is a dollar amount, in my opinion begs for misunderstandings.
It's not like a service provider is quoting prices for a pound of wheat shipped ala eBay when that is not what is going on here at all.
Secondly, since I am on a roll here....
The concept whereby a potential client specifies a date and time to have something completed, when the provider has a little text information at best,
and then the provider has to quote a dollar amount and date and time when you don't even know for a few days whether you've been selected, means the provider has to hold a time slot, maybe a whole day open in their future schedule "just in case" some requester accepts a quote,
Forgive me, it's all kind of weird. I don't get this format of back and forth unless I merely quote an hourly rate and an in initial service charge just to come out and "take a look" to try and decifer what the h the customer is talking about.
This all smacks of a format where the client is going to accept the low bid every time and that's just begging for trouble for both parties.
And I may respond to another few requests.