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Did my Mother overpay for a simple ethernet job? (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by Valvorian@alien.top to c/homenetworking@selfhosted.forum

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My Mother hired a licensed electrician to install 1 ethernet drop in her home office. She already had a preexisting tp-link setup in the basement. She showed me the invoice today which totaled $958.00! I'm shocked and disgusted. Feels like they took advantage of my Mother.

I told my Mother to call them first thing tomorrow morning to see if they possibly made a mistake. If not, I advised her to never do business with that company again. This seems like highway robbery. Is there anything else she can do?

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[–] fromthebeforetimes@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

We don't know how far he drove or how rural this area is. Let's assume that the customer is 90 minutes away from you and you are guessing 1 hour of work, and that before you show up, you really have no idea how long you will be there.

That is 4 hours minimum that you are out for this job, and possible 5-6 since you haven't seen it yet if you were to run into move complex wall issues.

Would you REALLY give a firm quote of $100 for being out 6 hours, effectively making just over $10/hour? Or would you make it significantly higher due to distance and unknown's?

Keep in mind that the quote was agreed upon before the work was done and most likely before anyone even looked at the job. Tons of unknowns at that point.