On The Floor with Wayne and Rob

Bidding Jobs and Estimates

Episode Summary

Wayne and Rob discuss what to include and disregard when bidding jobs and providing estimates. Follow Bona US Professional online: Website: https://www1.bona.com/en-us/professional/ Subscribe on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/BonaProfessional Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bonauspro/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bonapro.us/

Episode Transcription

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Hello and welcome to another episode

 

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of On the Floor with Wayne and Rob.

 

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I'm Wayne Highlander, director of sales,

 

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and he says,

 

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All right, how are we doing?

 

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Angry Rob.

 

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Rob.

 

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Bob. Okay.

 

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Okay.

 

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All right.

 

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Now?

 

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Well, that's not good.

 

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Okay.

 

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No fishing is no time

 

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for foolishness.

 

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This is angry, Bob.

 

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the mean barber.

 

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That's pretty funny.

 

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Wow.

 

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That's great.

 

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Yeah. All right. Bye.

 

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All right.

 

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So, a couple of things here.

 

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We're going to talk about billing

 

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and estimating jobs and stuff like that.

 

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But before we do on the last

 

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podcast, we talked about

 

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the if doing the 40 under 40,

 

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which we wholeheartedly support.

 

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I always look forward to seeing

 

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who gets the nominations.

 

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It's a select group that's getting those.

 

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But we also talked about some of the

 

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older guys in the trade.

 

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And if you add anybody

 

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who was a mentor to you

 

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that maybe you'd want to

 

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if you want,

 

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you can just mention your name

 

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and that we can

 

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we can do a shout out to them

 

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on the podcast.

 

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And if you want,

 

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you can replay it for them

 

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or you can send them the link

 

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and then they can, you know,

 

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kind of a nice thing to do for a mentor.

 

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We actually had several sent

 

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in mentors

 

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and I thought

 

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that we would read some of those

 

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and I I'm going to pick a random one.

 

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Out of. The list. Here.

 

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The second.

 

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One.

 

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Okay, Here we go.

 

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My mentor,

 

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who was a huge part of

 

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my life,

 

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is one of the

 

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best guys I've ever worked with

 

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is Wayne Hale.

 

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I can't do my job.

 

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I can't do.

 

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I can't. Let me grab another one.

 

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Let me grab.

 

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Let me just get another one here.

 

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Am I allowed to nominate you, Wayne?

 

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I am a son of a gun.

 

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so throw that away.

 

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Receive.

 

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I get, though. And.

 

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Okay.

 

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Thank you.

 

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All right.

 

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I got one from David Wood.

 

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Sent in a guy he worked with.

 

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His name is John Ward.

 

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He says I'm going to read it verbatim.

 

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Hi. My name is David.

 

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I've been installing

 

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and sanding floors for nine years now.

 

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John hired me out of high school.

 

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The John Ward hired me

 

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out of high school.

 

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You might say I was a troubled kid.

 

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I had no direction.

 

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I only wanted a job

 

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long enough to buy a truck.

 

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John hired me, and he spent so much time

 

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going over every small little detail

 

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on how to do floors.

 

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I felt guilty

 

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because I only wanted this job

 

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long enough to buy the car,

 

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which would have been about

 

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seven or eight months.

 

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When I finally earned enough money

 

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I was wrestling

 

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with telling him that I was going to quit

 

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and I was laying in bed one morning

 

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thinking about all that he had taught me.

 

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And nobody had ever cared enough

 

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or spent that much time

 

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teaching me anything.

 

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He was more of a father and a coworker,

 

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so I stayed.

 

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He retired recently

 

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and I heard your podcast

 

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and I thought about him a lot.

 

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So I wanted you to mention him.

 

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John Ward.

 

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I appreciate all the time

 

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he he worked together. And.

 

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All of our conversations together.

 

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I still think about him

 

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every day when I am working on a job.

 

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He made me what I am today

 

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and I hope I can be the

 

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kind of man he is in life.

 

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And also, Rob Johnson is of that kind.

 

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They're going to say that.

 

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He. Is.

 

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And I just added that. Sorry, Rob.

 

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I couldn't let it go.

 

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As Very nice. Very nice.

 

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So that's.

 

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What. Yeah. Yeah.

 

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Sorry about that.

 

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So I want to say the guy's name again.

 

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So as David would send that in regarding

 

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John Ward, a guy was a mentor to him and,

 

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and a pretty cool man.

 

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And very nice.

 

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Yeah, we.

 

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Got a few more that will wait

 

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and we won't do on all one show.

 

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But anyhow,

 

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yeah, if you have anywhere

 

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you want to send in, just let us know.

 

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We'll read it on, on, on air.

 

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So anybody might have been

 

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a mentor to you in the in

 

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the trade or what have you.

 

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All right.

 

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The other thing I

 

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was seeing about recently.

 

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Yeah, as long as people send them

 

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in, we'll read them.

 

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Yeah. Yeah.

 

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Yeah.

 

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Yeah.

 

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Yeah.

 

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It really and.

 

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And it's nice to think.

 

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I still think, you know,

 

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Obviously you do.

 

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Yeah, I think we all do.

 

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Anybody's ever learned this trade

 

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from somebody else.

 

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And I even remember

 

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my father

 

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Long was one of the worst person

 

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I've worked for in my life.

 

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When I was in when I was in labor union,

 

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I was a carpenter.

 

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Absolutely.

 

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Just the meanest, rotten son of a gun

 

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you ever were for your life.

 

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But I learned a lot from him.

 

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So you know what I mean.

 

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And I'll take it

 

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so I can appreciate everything

 

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I learned from him.

 

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I

 

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know I've said he's passed away

 

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many years ago, but

 

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So, anyhow. Yeah.

 

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There you go. That's pretty cool.

 

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All right,

 

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so you know what I started noticing?

 

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I thought we talk about building

 

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jobs and discounts and stuff like that.

 

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And

 

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as the economy

 

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is in some areas

 

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of the country gets worse,

 

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Some

 

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some people

 

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talk about giving discounts

 

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out to clients and customers,

 

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what have you.

 

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And and we're going to talk about

 

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and believe me when I say this,

 

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I always have to give the the

 

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record, the

 

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the warning

 

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that Rob and I

 

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are just talking right here.

 

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All right.

 

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We're not businesspeople

 

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by any stretch imagination right now.

 

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We are just simply talking,

 

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giving discounts out to customers,

 

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you know, giving this out.

 

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You know,

 

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and I'm going to

 

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preface this by saying,

 

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you know, for

 

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for some people giving discounts, works

 

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for very, very few percentage,

 

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I think, of of the industry. It works.

 

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I mean, you know, people

 

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that really understand

 

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the industry and their costs

 

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and their numbers and have enough capital

 

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that they can use it effectively.

 

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And, you know, for a few people

 

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that that it can work.

 

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But I think for the most

 

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most people, discounts don't really work.

 

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And I think it's interesting that

 

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in a survey of a you know what what

 

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you know you're closing rates.

 

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What helps you closing rates

 

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and it doesn't really help

 

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the closing rate so much as is

 

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what would really help

 

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the closing rates is what

 

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is you connecting with something

 

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with the pain points with the customer.

 

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You know what

 

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what what

 

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really resonates with the customer

 

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that what what's something

 

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that they know one of their pain points

 

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or some of their pain points

 

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that you have addressed

 

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and what have you.

 

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I think that is a much more effective

 

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way to go.

 

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So so reasons why not to give a discount?

 

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I think I think one number one,

 

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I think it kind of gives you

 

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the wrong impression of the company.

 

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And I think that, you know, you're

 

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you know,

 

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we all talk about

 

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wanting to be quality contractors

 

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and doing quality work.

 

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But I think then in the next breath,

 

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if we are able to,

 

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you know, willingly give discounts,

 

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I think it kind of takes away from that.

 

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And the other thing, too, is

 

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I always think that

 

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whenever we give a discount out,

 

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we we rarely changed our price

 

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or any reasons.

 

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But whenever I did,

 

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I felt like they didn't

 

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respect me as much.

 

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Not, I mean that I felt like I caved

 

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or I give I gave in and whatever,

 

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you know, maybe

 

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I didn't respect myself as much.

 

268

00:08:58,070 --> 00:09:00,106

Maybe that's what it was I projecting.

 

269

00:09:00,106 --> 00:09:01,641

But I kind of think that they don't

 

270

00:09:01,641 --> 00:09:04,644

respect you as much if you

 

271

00:09:04,777 --> 00:09:07,780

if you're willing to discount.

 

272

00:09:08,848 --> 00:09:11,851

Way you think,

 

273

00:09:19,959 --> 00:09:21,627

Yeah.

 

274

00:09:21,627 --> 00:09:22,528

Me too. And you know what else?

 

275

00:09:22,528 --> 00:09:25,531

What really?

 

276

00:09:37,543 --> 00:09:40,546

Yeah.

 

277

00:09:43,716 --> 00:09:44,817

Well, here.

 

278

00:09:44,817 --> 00:09:47,820

 

 

279

00:09:58,331 --> 00:10:01,334

Yeah.

 

280

00:10:09,108 --> 00:10:12,111

Yeah.

 

281

00:10:19,151 --> 00:10:22,154

Yeah, yeah, yeah,

 

282

00:10:22,488 --> 00:10:22,822

yeah.

 

283

00:10:22,822 --> 00:10:25,825

No, I.

 

284

00:10:45,978 --> 00:10:46,912

going on in his job.

 

285

00:10:46,912 --> 00:10:49,248

But I used to

 

286

00:10:49,248 --> 00:10:51,083

and I learned this from my Uncle Fred

 

287

00:10:52,084 --> 00:10:54,487

was I would lie an item.

 

288

00:10:54,487 --> 00:10:55,988

Everything.

 

289

00:10:55,988 --> 00:10:58,791

And a lot of the line items

 

290

00:10:58,791 --> 00:11:01,794

didn't have a price on it.

 

291

00:11:02,895 --> 00:11:04,463

It was like, you know,

 

292

00:11:04,463 --> 00:11:07,133

anti-slip finish for the stairs.

 

293

00:11:07,133 --> 00:11:08,134

No charge to

 

294

00:11:08,134 --> 00:11:10,670

charge was built into the price.

 

295

00:11:10,670 --> 00:11:13,039

So if I could line item,

 

296

00:11:13,039 --> 00:11:16,042

you know, a half a dozen different things

 

297

00:11:16,375 --> 00:11:19,145

like removal of carpet and

 

298

00:11:19,145 --> 00:11:21,414

you know, things like that, no charge

 

299

00:11:21,414 --> 00:11:22,214

because it was already

 

300

00:11:22,214 --> 00:11:24,417

built into the price.

 

301

00:11:24,417 --> 00:11:25,785

Then if people had the nerve to say,

 

302

00:11:25,785 --> 00:11:27,019

I want a discount, like, look,

 

303

00:11:27,019 --> 00:11:30,022

I just gave you,

 

304

00:11:43,669 --> 00:11:45,571

Yeah.

 

305

00:11:45,571 --> 00:11:46,706

One thing that also

 

306

00:11:46,706 --> 00:11:48,407

these are really bugged me to death is.

 

307

00:11:48,407 --> 00:11:51,043

Is like, almost like a finder's fee.

 

308

00:11:51,043 --> 00:11:53,946

Like, Hey, referred to this job.

 

309

00:11:53,946 --> 00:11:54,180

You know,

 

310

00:11:54,180 --> 00:11:55,448

if it for, you know, can you,

 

311

00:11:55,448 --> 00:11:56,882

you know, kick me some back

 

312

00:11:56,882 --> 00:11:58,718

something on the end of the whatever

 

313

00:11:58,718 --> 00:12:00,086

I, I can't tell you

 

314

00:12:00,086 --> 00:12:01,987

how many times I did that. Zero.

 

315

00:12:02,988 --> 00:12:04,156

I really

 

316

00:12:04,156 --> 00:12:06,592

resented finder's fees or someone saying,

 

317

00:12:06,592 --> 00:12:07,927

hey if I get to this job, you know,

 

318

00:12:07,927 --> 00:12:10,129

put in another $500 for me.

 

319

00:12:10,129 --> 00:12:10,663

Never.

 

320

00:12:10,663 --> 00:12:11,197

I just

 

321

00:12:11,197 --> 00:12:14,166

just resented doing that completely.

 

322

00:12:36,355 --> 00:12:36,756

Well, we'd.

 

323

00:12:36,756 --> 00:12:39,759

Recommend each other.

 

324

00:12:41,761 --> 00:12:44,130

Or anybody saying, Hey, like, in

 

325

00:12:44,130 --> 00:12:44,530

this case,

 

326

00:12:44,530 --> 00:12:45,865

I'd have general contractors

 

327

00:12:45,865 --> 00:12:46,298

say, Hey,

 

328

00:12:46,298 --> 00:12:47,533

I'm not going to be

 

329

00:12:47,533 --> 00:12:48,968

associated with this job,

 

330

00:12:48,968 --> 00:12:50,102

but we don't work from the past.

 

331

00:12:50,102 --> 00:12:51,737

They want their floors done.

 

332

00:12:51,737 --> 00:12:54,740

Put in another thousand dollars for me.

 

333

00:12:54,907 --> 00:12:56,509

You know what I mean?

 

334

00:12:56,509 --> 00:12:59,178

I, I,

 

335

00:12:59,178 --> 00:13:01,347

I had a guy drive me to a job

 

336

00:13:01,347 --> 00:13:02,748

when we were working on one of his jobs.

 

337

00:13:02,748 --> 00:13:04,950

And he said a friend of mine

 

338

00:13:04,950 --> 00:13:06,252

was there, floors done.

 

339

00:13:06,252 --> 00:13:07,386

And he goes,

 

340

00:13:07,386 --> 00:13:08,521

I'll just take you over there.

 

341

00:13:08,521 --> 00:13:09,388

We'll have a look at it.

 

342

00:13:09,388 --> 00:13:10,656

Measured up and what have you

 

343

00:13:10,656 --> 00:13:12,424

and what we're driving there.

 

344

00:13:12,424 --> 00:13:13,058

He goes,

 

345

00:13:13,058 --> 00:13:14,493

and he told me how good a friend

 

346

00:13:14,493 --> 00:13:15,427

this guy's a really good friend

 

347

00:13:15,427 --> 00:13:16,529

of his or whatever.

 

348

00:13:16,529 --> 00:13:17,062

And on the way,

 

349

00:13:17,062 --> 00:13:17,863

there he goes, Hey,

 

350

00:13:17,863 --> 00:13:20,866

put another $400 on it for for me.

 

351

00:13:21,033 --> 00:13:22,835

Like, that's I have.

 

352

00:13:22,835 --> 00:13:24,403

A real problem with that.

 

353

00:13:24,403 --> 00:13:27,606

So anyhow, the problem.

 

354

00:13:28,707 --> 00:13:29,074

Yeah.

 

355

00:13:29,074 --> 00:13:29,909

So he said it was a friend.

 

356

00:13:29,909 --> 00:13:32,912

Yeah, yeah, yeah,

 

357

00:13:34,313 --> 00:13:36,248

yeah.

 

358

00:13:36,248 --> 00:13:37,550

Yeah.

 

359

00:13:37,550 --> 00:13:40,553

The other thing too about.

 

360

00:13:41,921 --> 00:13:44,356

Too, you know, and I never do that,

 

361

00:13:44,356 --> 00:13:45,691

you know. No, no, no.

 

362

00:13:45,691 --> 00:13:47,459

You gave me your chicken recipe.

 

363

00:13:47,459 --> 00:13:48,994

How can I do that? How can I.

 

364

00:13:48,994 --> 00:13:52,431

Can I do that to, you know, not yet,

 

365

00:13:53,199 --> 00:13:54,266

but yeah,

 

366

00:13:54,266 --> 00:13:55,100

I got a green egg

 

367

00:13:55,100 --> 00:13:56,702

that I've never used in my life.

 

368

00:13:56,702 --> 00:13:59,538

So it's going to be a. Longer. Process.

 

369

00:13:59,538 --> 00:14:02,541

So I don't have much faith in myself.

 

370

00:14:03,275 --> 00:14:06,779

So the other thing about it is

 

371

00:14:06,779 --> 00:14:07,880

I think that you just

 

372

00:14:07,880 --> 00:14:08,747

turn the conversation

 

373

00:14:08,747 --> 00:14:11,016

to discount and not value.

 

374

00:14:11,016 --> 00:14:13,285

And when you do that and it's just,

 

375

00:14:13,285 --> 00:14:13,819

you know,

 

376

00:14:13,819 --> 00:14:15,020

now you're taking the conversation

 

377

00:14:15,020 --> 00:14:16,255

away of value

 

378

00:14:16,255 --> 00:14:17,556

and you just talking about the money

 

379

00:14:17,556 --> 00:14:18,991

now, I think you have to

 

380

00:14:18,991 --> 00:14:21,327

you have to come back with a value

 

381

00:14:21,327 --> 00:14:22,494

and say,

 

382

00:14:22,494 --> 00:14:23,262

listen, here's

 

383

00:14:23,262 --> 00:14:25,431

the reason why this price is what it is.

 

384

00:14:25,431 --> 00:14:26,065

And you're right.

 

385

00:14:26,065 --> 00:14:28,300

I mean, the other thing,

 

386

00:14:28,300 --> 00:14:29,435

too, is what I find out

 

387

00:14:29,435 --> 00:14:31,537

is a lot of guys that are cheap,

 

388

00:14:31,537 --> 00:14:33,873

they have cheap friends.

 

389

00:14:35,941 --> 00:14:36,108

You.

 

390

00:14:36,108 --> 00:14:36,775

Know what I mean?

 

391

00:14:36,775 --> 00:14:38,677

And and then,

 

392

00:14:38,677 --> 00:14:39,612

you know, they're going to say,

 

393

00:14:39,612 --> 00:14:40,446

hey, so-and-so,

 

394

00:14:40,446 --> 00:14:41,680

you did so-and-so's job

 

395

00:14:41,680 --> 00:14:42,948

and you able to knock it

 

396

00:14:42,948 --> 00:14:43,916

down to such and such

 

397

00:14:43,916 --> 00:14:45,351

and can you do that for me?

 

398

00:14:45,351 --> 00:14:46,852

And then I'll also now,

 

399

00:14:46,852 --> 00:14:47,253

you know,

 

400

00:14:47,253 --> 00:14:49,154

all the people you're doing business with

 

401

00:14:49,154 --> 00:14:53,025

are all those people, and

 

402

00:14:53,959 --> 00:14:56,161

it cost you the same amount of

 

403

00:14:56,161 --> 00:14:58,597

money to do the job,

 

404

00:14:58,597 --> 00:15:00,466

whether you discount it or not.

 

405

00:15:00,466 --> 00:15:01,533

I mean, I don't know about you

 

406

00:15:01,533 --> 00:15:02,668

or anybody else listening,

 

407

00:15:02,668 --> 00:15:08,140

but I don't have a razzle dazzle in me,

 

408

00:15:08,140 --> 00:15:08,874

you know what I mean?

 

409

00:15:08,874 --> 00:15:11,877

It's the same process I do for every job.

 

410

00:15:12,177 --> 00:15:12,878

So I don't have.

 

411

00:15:12,878 --> 00:15:14,113

Okay, if you give me this price, it's

 

412

00:15:14,113 --> 00:15:15,247

going to be this kind of quality.

 

413

00:15:15,247 --> 00:15:16,248

And if you give me this much again,

 

414

00:15:16,248 --> 00:15:17,616

it's going to be that kind of quality.

 

415

00:15:17,616 --> 00:15:19,885

I mean, you can talk about the finishes,

 

416

00:15:19,885 --> 00:15:20,819

you know, you might say, yeah,

 

417

00:15:20,819 --> 00:15:22,554

if the guy wants to go with a

 

418

00:15:22,554 --> 00:15:23,389

lower end finish,

 

419

00:15:23,389 --> 00:15:24,957

you could charge me to add whatever.

 

420

00:15:24,957 --> 00:15:27,126

But the work is the work

 

421

00:15:27,126 --> 00:15:28,260

and that's not going to change.

 

422

00:15:28,260 --> 00:15:30,496

I can't I can't accept edge remarks.

 

423

00:15:30,496 --> 00:15:31,430

You know what I mean?

 

424

00:15:31,430 --> 00:15:33,232

I can't accept a screen bite in the floor

 

425

00:15:33,232 --> 00:15:34,033

and that kind of stuff.

 

426

00:15:34,033 --> 00:15:34,533

I mean,

 

427

00:15:34,533 --> 00:15:36,001

I've so I'm going to do the same things

 

428

00:15:36,001 --> 00:15:37,503

I always normally do.

 

429

00:15:37,503 --> 00:15:39,038

If I was going to try to fill the job,

 

430

00:15:39,038 --> 00:15:40,239

I'm going to try to fill the job

 

431

00:15:40,239 --> 00:15:41,874

no matter what.

 

432

00:15:41,874 --> 00:15:44,643

And so I can't.

 

433

00:15:45,577 --> 00:15:47,146

That's no, I mean.

 

434

00:15:47,146 --> 00:15:50,149

No,

 

435

00:15:53,185 --> 00:15:55,688

I can't do that.

 

436

00:15:55,688 --> 00:15:58,057

No.

 

437

00:15:58,057 --> 00:16:01,060

Would

 

438

00:16:03,295 --> 00:16:04,229

it?

 

439

00:16:04,229 --> 00:16:05,764

Yeah,

 

440

00:16:05,764 --> 00:16:08,767

yeah, yeah.

 

441

00:16:11,537 --> 00:16:12,404

You're right.

 

442

00:16:12,404 --> 00:16:14,273

I that's how I started in this trade.

 

443

00:16:14,273 --> 00:16:14,606

I mean,

 

444

00:16:14,606 --> 00:16:16,342

when I started doing floors on my own,

 

445

00:16:16,342 --> 00:16:18,143

it was doing those type of floors.

 

446

00:16:18,143 --> 00:16:20,245

There's rental units in a, in a,

 

447

00:16:20,245 --> 00:16:22,715

in a, in a bad part of town.

 

448

00:16:22,715 --> 00:16:24,216

The floors

 

449

00:16:24,216 --> 00:16:25,751

before everybody that came before me

 

450

00:16:25,751 --> 00:16:27,786

did a razzle dazzle on the job.

 

451

00:16:27,786 --> 00:16:30,055

And that was I couldn't do it.

 

452

00:16:30,055 --> 00:16:31,056

Just couldn't do it.

 

453

00:16:31,056 --> 00:16:34,059

And but it you know, I learned

 

454

00:16:34,159 --> 00:16:37,463

I remember, believe me back comparison.

 

455

00:16:37,463 --> 00:16:40,232

But they talked about the doctors

 

456

00:16:40,232 --> 00:16:42,401

that that came out of Vietnam

 

457

00:16:42,401 --> 00:16:44,370

were just after they left

 

458

00:16:44,370 --> 00:16:45,738

Vietnam and went into the practice.

 

459

00:16:45,738 --> 00:16:46,205

They were like

 

460

00:16:46,205 --> 00:16:47,740

an unbelievable doctors

 

461

00:16:47,740 --> 00:16:48,507

because they have seen

 

462

00:16:48,507 --> 00:16:50,776

absolutely everything.

 

463

00:16:50,776 --> 00:16:52,411

Well, implies

 

464

00:16:52,411 --> 00:16:53,679

that, believe me, it's bad comparison.

 

465

00:16:53,679 --> 00:16:53,912

I don't know.

 

466

00:16:53,912 --> 00:16:55,647

I don't know any other person. But.

 

467

00:16:57,249 --> 00:16:58,150

Well,

 

468

00:16:58,150 --> 00:16:59,685

we would we did these laws

 

469

00:16:59,685 --> 00:17:01,787

that were so beat up and whatever.

 

470

00:17:01,787 --> 00:17:02,321

And, you know,

 

471

00:17:02,321 --> 00:17:03,522

I was young at the time

 

472

00:17:03,522 --> 00:17:04,089

and I wanted to make

 

473

00:17:04,089 --> 00:17:05,758

every one of them perfect.

 

474

00:17:05,758 --> 00:17:07,559

So we did whatever it took,

 

475

00:17:07,559 --> 00:17:08,560

make my life dependent

 

476

00:17:08,560 --> 00:17:10,162

on making these job perfect.

 

477

00:17:10,162 --> 00:17:11,630

I mean, the guy got me for a bargain.

 

478

00:17:11,630 --> 00:17:14,633

I mean, I you know, he was fantastic.

 

479

00:17:14,700 --> 00:17:16,468

But when I left there,

 

480

00:17:16,468 --> 00:17:18,404

I was torn, turned into

 

481

00:17:18,404 --> 00:17:20,472

just doing really, really quality work

 

482

00:17:20,472 --> 00:17:21,774

and kind of

 

483

00:17:21,774 --> 00:17:23,742

learning it on these jobs

 

484

00:17:23,742 --> 00:17:25,377

before I went somewhere else.

 

485

00:17:25,377 --> 00:17:27,846

And we got very good at doing repairs

 

486

00:17:27,846 --> 00:17:28,547

and that kind of stuff.

 

487

00:17:28,547 --> 00:17:29,715

But anyhow,

 

488

00:17:29,715 --> 00:17:31,150

I don't have a

 

489

00:17:31,150 --> 00:17:32,017

I mean, my costs,

 

490

00:17:32,017 --> 00:17:34,086

my overhead is still the same.

 

491

00:17:34,086 --> 00:17:35,587

That doesn't my overhead doesn't change.

 

492

00:17:35,587 --> 00:17:38,957

I change if I discount somebody and

 

493

00:17:38,957 --> 00:17:40,526

my labor cost doesn't change

 

494

00:17:40,526 --> 00:17:42,127

if I discount somebody.

 

495

00:17:42,127 --> 00:17:45,731

So you know what's going to change

 

496

00:17:45,831 --> 00:17:46,465

You know what I mean?

 

497

00:17:46,465 --> 00:17:49,468

I'm, I, I really I really would.

 

498

00:17:49,535 --> 00:17:52,471

I think that's why I people hear me

 

499

00:17:52,471 --> 00:17:53,205

say it all the time.

 

500

00:17:53,205 --> 00:17:54,740

But I am so adamant on

 

501

00:17:54,740 --> 00:17:56,608

on the estimate in the bid

 

502

00:17:56,608 --> 00:17:57,876

when you're talking to somebody

 

503

00:17:57,876 --> 00:18:00,079

and that's the time

 

504

00:18:00,079 --> 00:18:01,046

and how good you are

 

505

00:18:01,046 --> 00:18:03,782

that craft of of selling.

 

506

00:18:03,782 --> 00:18:04,583

And believe me,

 

507

00:18:04,583 --> 00:18:05,884

I can tell you from be honest

 

508

00:18:05,884 --> 00:18:06,452

I've been this

 

509

00:18:06,452 --> 00:18:08,220

I've seen really good salespeople

 

510

00:18:08,220 --> 00:18:09,088

and I've seen really,

 

511

00:18:09,088 --> 00:18:10,756

really bad salespeople

 

512

00:18:10,756 --> 00:18:12,691

and a really good salesperson

 

513

00:18:12,691 --> 00:18:13,459

in front of that.

 

514

00:18:13,459 --> 00:18:14,593

And the one of the best

 

515

00:18:14,593 --> 00:18:17,296

salesperson I ever met was my Uncle Stan.

 

516

00:18:17,296 --> 00:18:20,599

And because he was so believable,

 

517

00:18:20,599 --> 00:18:22,601

so low key, so trusting, and,

 

518

00:18:22,601 --> 00:18:22,868

you know,

 

519

00:18:22,868 --> 00:18:24,036

he knew it,

 

520

00:18:24,036 --> 00:18:25,370

his demeanor was so calm

 

521

00:18:25,370 --> 00:18:25,804

and he came

 

522

00:18:25,804 --> 00:18:27,639

with all the years of experience

 

523

00:18:27,639 --> 00:18:29,141

that, I mean,

 

524

00:18:29,141 --> 00:18:31,043

you know, he was a great salesperson.

 

525

00:18:31,043 --> 00:18:34,213

So that that time in front of the client

 

526

00:18:34,213 --> 00:18:34,746

where you can

 

527

00:18:34,746 --> 00:18:35,481

you can,

 

528

00:18:35,481 --> 00:18:35,981

you know, show

 

529

00:18:35,981 --> 00:18:37,783

why you're worth this much money

 

530

00:18:37,783 --> 00:18:38,684

and you get away from that

 

531

00:18:38,684 --> 00:18:41,753

conversation of of discounts and,

 

532

00:18:41,753 --> 00:18:44,756

you know, that kind of stuff, I think is

 

533

00:18:44,857 --> 00:18:46,358

goes miles.

 

534

00:18:46,358 --> 00:18:48,360

So yeah

 

535

00:19:19,124 --> 00:19:22,127

yeah

 

536

00:19:31,403 --> 00:19:34,406

no.

 

537

00:19:43,749 --> 00:19:44,883

Yeah.

 

538

00:19:44,883 --> 00:19:47,886

You're kidding.

 

539

00:19:48,720 --> 00:19:49,421

You you.

 

540

00:19:49,421 --> 00:19:50,789

Have been wrong. Before.

 

541

00:19:50,789 --> 00:19:53,025

Yeah, yeah,

 

542

00:19:53,025 --> 00:19:53,725

yeah.

 

543

00:19:53,725 --> 00:19:56,728

Absolutely.

 

544

00:20:11,109 --> 00:20:14,112

Yeah.

 

545

00:20:18,884 --> 00:20:20,419

Yeah.

 

546

00:20:20,419 --> 00:20:23,422

Well,

 

547

00:20:33,599 --> 00:20:36,602

yeah,

 

548

00:20:38,503 --> 00:20:41,506

yeah, yeah,

 

549

00:21:00,892 --> 00:21:02,561

yeah,

 

550

00:21:02,561 --> 00:21:02,995

yeah.

 

551

00:21:02,995 --> 00:21:05,564

I mean,

 

552

00:21:05,564 --> 00:21:08,567

if

 

553

00:21:09,368 --> 00:21:12,337

Yeah, well and.

 

554

00:21:13,238 --> 00:21:15,774

And if, if genuinely they,

 

555

00:21:15,774 --> 00:21:16,575

they can't afford it

 

556

00:21:16,575 --> 00:21:17,409

and they want to bring their,

 

557

00:21:17,409 --> 00:21:18,577

they need to bring the price down

 

558

00:21:18,577 --> 00:21:19,478

then you can talk about

 

559

00:21:19,478 --> 00:21:21,780

Well do you really need to close

 

560

00:21:21,780 --> 00:21:22,714

the flush mount vent

 

561

00:21:22,714 --> 00:21:23,582

and that type of stuff.

 

562

00:21:23,582 --> 00:21:24,716

You know those type,

 

563

00:21:24,716 --> 00:21:26,885

I understand those type of things.

 

564

00:21:26,885 --> 00:21:29,955

Maybe hold off on doing borders

 

565

00:21:29,988 --> 00:21:30,989

around with this one

 

566

00:21:30,989 --> 00:21:31,957

where we're going to do board.

 

567

00:21:31,957 --> 00:21:36,428

I get those things would be a would be,

 

568

00:21:36,995 --> 00:21:38,563

you know, negotiate

 

569

00:21:38,563 --> 00:21:39,765

you can negotiate those

 

570

00:21:39,765 --> 00:21:41,266

but the actual

 

571

00:21:41,266 --> 00:21:44,269

discounting the entire job I have, I have

 

572

00:21:44,369 --> 00:21:44,836

a problem.

 

573

00:21:49,274 --> 00:21:51,343

Yeah well

 

574

00:21:51,343 --> 00:21:54,579

the other thing is I think those those

 

575

00:21:55,447 --> 00:21:56,181

I'll just call them

 

576

00:21:56,181 --> 00:21:59,318

low ballers or cheap people,

 

577

00:21:59,318 --> 00:22:00,118

they're more fussy,

 

578

00:22:00,118 --> 00:22:00,952

more picky anyway,

 

579

00:22:00,952 --> 00:22:02,654

because they probably don't want to pay.

 

580

00:22:02,654 --> 00:22:03,221

You know what I mean?

 

581

00:22:03,221 --> 00:22:05,857

And they're not sometimes

 

582

00:22:05,857 --> 00:22:07,993

great people to do business with anyhow,

 

583

00:22:07,993 --> 00:22:08,894

you know what I mean?

 

584

00:22:08,894 --> 00:22:10,862

So there's that.

 

585

00:22:10,862 --> 00:22:14,366

It's funny because when

 

586

00:22:14,366 --> 00:22:15,801

my wife is going to buy a car,

 

587

00:22:15,801 --> 00:22:18,770

I don't know, six months ago or whatever,

 

588

00:22:18,770 --> 00:22:20,839

I went into dealership with her

 

589

00:22:20,839 --> 00:22:22,240

and first we were looking at

 

590

00:22:22,240 --> 00:22:23,842

the Hyundai Genesis cars.

 

591

00:22:23,842 --> 00:22:25,444

The 70 days

 

592

00:22:25,444 --> 00:22:26,445

I was trying to take duty

 

593

00:22:26,445 --> 00:22:28,447

into buying that car.

 

594

00:22:28,447 --> 00:22:29,815

She's a tough sell

 

595

00:22:29,815 --> 00:22:32,150

because she don't care about cars

 

596

00:22:32,150 --> 00:22:33,652

and car means nothing to her.

 

597

00:22:33,652 --> 00:22:37,189

A 1986 car with perfectly fine for her.

 

598

00:22:37,189 --> 00:22:37,622

She does.

 

599

00:22:37,622 --> 00:22:38,757

And her whole family's that way.

 

600

00:22:38,757 --> 00:22:40,392

They just do not care.

 

601

00:22:40,392 --> 00:22:41,560

They're not impressed

 

602

00:22:41,560 --> 00:22:43,595

by the only car that impresses my wife.

 

603

00:22:43,595 --> 00:22:44,229

There's one car

 

604

00:22:44,229 --> 00:22:44,696

and one car

 

605

00:22:44,696 --> 00:22:48,200

only that that she, like, dies over.

 

606

00:22:48,633 --> 00:22:50,168

And it's the old Jaguar

 

607

00:22:50,168 --> 00:22:51,670

from the sixties with the long those.

 

608

00:22:51,670 --> 00:22:52,771

You know what it was.

 

609

00:22:52,771 --> 00:22:54,239

I don't know what model that was,

 

610

00:22:54,239 --> 00:22:54,673

but you know what I'm

 

611

00:22:54,673 --> 00:22:57,676

talking about with the you know that she

 

612

00:22:57,876 --> 00:22:59,978

she thinks that's a sexy car everyday

 

613

00:22:59,978 --> 00:23:00,912

and other than that,

 

614

00:23:00,912 --> 00:23:02,647

she could care less about a car.

 

615

00:23:02,647 --> 00:23:03,515

So I'm in the dealer

 

616

00:23:03,515 --> 00:23:04,649

talking dealership, talking

 

617

00:23:04,649 --> 00:23:05,650

the car, and the dealer

 

618

00:23:05,650 --> 00:23:07,252

gives a price on the car.

 

619

00:23:07,252 --> 00:23:08,954

And I said I said,

 

620

00:23:08,954 --> 00:23:09,688

we're not going to pay that.

 

621

00:23:09,688 --> 00:23:11,790

You know, that's too expensive.

 

622

00:23:11,790 --> 00:23:14,526

And he he leaves and he

 

623

00:23:14,526 --> 00:23:17,462

he goes he gets his manager and says

 

624

00:23:18,563 --> 00:23:18,997

now a

 

625

00:23:18,997 --> 00:23:20,132

parenthesis before

 

626

00:23:20,132 --> 00:23:21,600

before I went there,

 

627

00:23:21,600 --> 00:23:24,403

there's this chick on, on Tick-Tock car

 

628

00:23:24,403 --> 00:23:25,504

like the car

 

629

00:23:25,504 --> 00:23:27,005

chick guru or something like that

 

630

00:23:27,005 --> 00:23:28,840

tells you exactly how to buy a car.

 

631

00:23:28,840 --> 00:23:29,274

She goes,

 

632

00:23:29,274 --> 00:23:31,576

I am not paying for transportation cause

 

633

00:23:31,576 --> 00:23:32,344

I'm not doing it.

 

634

00:23:32,344 --> 00:23:34,179

You had to get the car anyhow, right?

 

635

00:23:34,179 --> 00:23:35,113

So why should I have to pay

 

636

00:23:35,113 --> 00:23:36,748

if you get in the car there?

 

637

00:23:36,748 --> 00:23:37,816

So I'm thinking, all right,

 

638

00:23:37,816 --> 00:23:39,050

I make sense to me.

 

639

00:23:39,050 --> 00:23:39,818

So there's some

 

640

00:23:39,818 --> 00:23:40,685

other things that are like,

 

641

00:23:40,685 --> 00:23:43,021

All right, now I'm. I'm dialed in.

 

642

00:23:43,021 --> 00:23:44,923

So I said, I'm not paying for that.

 

643

00:23:44,923 --> 00:23:46,024

I mean, you know,

 

644

00:23:46,024 --> 00:23:47,359

why should I have to pay that?

 

645

00:23:47,359 --> 00:23:48,126

You have to be know there.

 

646

00:23:48,126 --> 00:23:48,827

Anyhow, we bring

 

647

00:23:48,827 --> 00:23:49,761

eight cars at a time

 

648

00:23:49,761 --> 00:23:51,129

and you charge me $4,000

 

649

00:23:51,129 --> 00:23:52,597

at what you be at $40,000.

 

650

00:23:52,597 --> 00:23:53,865

Bring the car there from Indiana.

 

651

00:23:54,866 --> 00:23:56,902

So anyhow,

 

652

00:23:56,902 --> 00:23:57,369

so he goes

 

653

00:23:57,369 --> 00:23:59,137

there to go get my manager

 

654

00:23:59,137 --> 00:24:00,038

goes the manager

 

655

00:24:00,038 --> 00:24:01,139

manager comes back, sits down.

 

656

00:24:01,139 --> 00:24:02,240

He's a young hotshot.

 

657

00:24:02,240 --> 00:24:05,177

I don't like the guy right off the bat.

 

658

00:24:05,177 --> 00:24:06,878

I mean.

 

659

00:24:06,878 --> 00:24:08,814

He

 

660

00:24:08,814 --> 00:24:10,115

no, he's too slick.

 

661

00:24:10,115 --> 00:24:11,750

Look in his cologne, smells,

 

662

00:24:11,750 --> 00:24:13,218

you know, two too groovy.

 

663

00:24:13,218 --> 00:24:15,687

And and he leans back in his desk

 

664

00:24:15,687 --> 00:24:17,155

and he puts his hands behind his neck,

 

665

00:24:17,155 --> 00:24:18,256

you know, like one of these moves

 

666

00:24:18,256 --> 00:24:18,590

right here.

 

667

00:24:18,590 --> 00:24:19,591

You know what I mean?

 

668

00:24:19,591 --> 00:24:21,126

And that turned me off the body language

 

669

00:24:21,126 --> 00:24:22,561

that was all wrong.

 

670

00:24:22,561 --> 00:24:23,328

And he goes, Mr.

 

671

00:24:23,328 --> 00:24:24,696

Rhinelander, I looked at the price here

 

672

00:24:24,696 --> 00:24:25,997

and here's what I can do.

 

673

00:24:25,997 --> 00:24:27,599

And he wrote down the price.

 

674

00:24:27,599 --> 00:24:28,700

The price was more

 

675

00:24:28,700 --> 00:24:29,801

than the other knucklehead told

 

676

00:24:29,801 --> 00:24:31,203

me he was going to be the

 

677

00:24:34,506 --> 00:24:37,175

So problem was I wanted the car.

 

678

00:24:37,175 --> 00:24:38,276

Okay.

 

679

00:24:38,276 --> 00:24:41,079

So I told I said I said that's

 

680

00:24:41,079 --> 00:24:42,747

I mean, it's crazy.

 

681

00:24:42,747 --> 00:24:44,916

You're more expensive than less schmuck.

 

682

00:24:44,916 --> 00:24:46,084

Why would I?

 

683

00:24:46,084 --> 00:24:47,352

I mean, who comes back

 

684

00:24:47,352 --> 00:24:49,020

with a more expensive price?

 

685

00:24:49,020 --> 00:24:49,588

He goes, Well,

 

686

00:24:49,588 --> 00:24:50,755

he goes, Wait, how can I do

 

687

00:24:50,755 --> 00:24:52,691

I can't do anything about this.

 

688

00:24:52,691 --> 00:24:54,125

So I go, I said, Well,

 

689

00:24:54,125 --> 00:24:55,260

I guess we're done.

 

690

00:24:55,260 --> 00:24:57,529

So I started to walk up and leave

 

691

00:24:57,529 --> 00:24:58,830

and he let me go.

 

692

00:24:58,830 --> 00:25:01,833

Now he's this knucklehead

 

693

00:25:01,933 --> 00:25:02,734

I called it.

 

694

00:25:02,734 --> 00:25:03,835

I called the other sales guy.

 

695

00:25:03,835 --> 00:25:04,436

Later I said,

 

696

00:25:04,436 --> 00:25:06,638

I sold me your boss cost you a deal

 

697

00:25:06,638 --> 00:25:08,907

because here's what he should have done.

 

698

00:25:08,907 --> 00:25:10,509

He should have said, Hey,

 

699

00:25:10,509 --> 00:25:12,043

all right, listen, man,

 

700

00:25:12,043 --> 00:25:14,346

here's the absolute

 

701

00:25:14,346 --> 00:25:15,080

rock bottom

 

702

00:25:15,080 --> 00:25:15,480

what I could do,

 

703

00:25:15,480 --> 00:25:16,848

because here's here's the thing.

 

704

00:25:16,848 --> 00:25:19,117

These cars are in such demand.

 

705

00:25:19,117 --> 00:25:21,152

They are we have nowhere to go.

 

706

00:25:21,152 --> 00:25:22,053

We bring them in here.

 

707

00:25:22,053 --> 00:25:23,021

They're gone the next day.

 

708

00:25:23,021 --> 00:25:24,623

There's really not a lot we can do.

 

709

00:25:24,623 --> 00:25:25,957

He could, you know what I mean?

 

710

00:25:25,957 --> 00:25:26,858

And he could have problem.

 

711

00:25:26,858 --> 00:25:28,293

He could have brought me back to

 

712

00:25:28,293 --> 00:25:29,794

the table, but he didn't.

 

713

00:25:30,829 --> 00:25:31,663

Yeah.

 

714

00:25:31,663 --> 00:25:32,497

So?

 

715

00:25:32,497 --> 00:25:35,734

So my wife drives a Honda CRV now, and,

 

716

00:25:36,701 --> 00:25:37,235

you know,

 

717

00:25:37,235 --> 00:25:39,037

and my wife found out

 

718

00:25:39,037 --> 00:25:40,238

that you have to use

 

719

00:25:40,238 --> 00:25:43,241

the the more expensive gas for that car.

 

720

00:25:43,675 --> 00:25:46,678

And she goes, no, no, no, no.

 

721

00:25:46,845 --> 00:25:47,646

That's ridiculous.

 

722

00:25:47,646 --> 00:25:48,914

We're not going to buy that.

 

723

00:25:48,914 --> 00:25:49,748

We're not going to use a car

 

724

00:25:49,748 --> 00:25:52,717

that goes that the gas.

 

725

00:25:52,918 --> 00:25:55,453

So I didn't get my car.

 

726

00:25:55,453 --> 00:25:57,589

Yes. That's what Judy said.

 

727

00:25:57,589 --> 00:26:00,125

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Volvo, same way. Yeah.

 

728

00:26:00,125 --> 00:26:01,092

I think Volvos,

 

729

00:26:01,092 --> 00:26:02,260

you have to use the A Supreme.

 

730

00:26:02,260 --> 00:26:04,029

Yes as well.

 

731

00:26:04,029 --> 00:26:05,297

So not only does it cost

 

732

00:26:05,297 --> 00:26:06,398

you more money there, it cost

 

733

00:26:06,398 --> 00:26:07,132

you more money every day

 

734

00:26:07,132 --> 00:26:08,300

when you're using it.

 

735

00:26:08,300 --> 00:26:11,970

So, so now we're in a Honda CRV

 

736

00:26:12,737 --> 00:26:15,640

anyhow.

 

737

00:26:15,640 --> 00:26:16,207

Anyhow.

 

738

00:26:16,207 --> 00:26:18,944

And

 

739

00:26:18,944 --> 00:26:20,845

that was crazy for let me walk out bad.

 

740

00:26:20,845 --> 00:26:22,314

I I'll tell you what,

 

741

00:26:23,748 --> 00:26:24,416

I've seen more

 

742

00:26:24,416 --> 00:26:26,117

bad car salesmen

 

743

00:26:26,117 --> 00:26:27,218

now that I'm

 

744

00:26:27,218 --> 00:26:28,253

on this side of the business.

 

745

00:26:28,253 --> 00:26:29,588

I've seen it

 

746

00:26:29,588 --> 00:26:31,790

horrendously bad car salesmen

 

747

00:26:31,790 --> 00:26:33,558

that just so bad.

 

748

00:26:33,558 --> 00:26:34,826

Then you know

 

749

00:26:34,826 --> 00:26:37,362

she ended up buying the the the

 

750

00:26:37,362 --> 00:26:40,231

the Honda offer these these two old guys,

 

751

00:26:40,231 --> 00:26:40,799

I mean they're

 

752

00:26:40,799 --> 00:26:41,666

they're both

 

753

00:26:41,666 --> 00:26:43,902

the retired working at the dealership.

 

754

00:26:43,902 --> 00:26:46,237

They could care less about anything.

 

755

00:26:46,237 --> 00:26:46,671

You know what I mean?

 

756

00:26:46,671 --> 00:26:47,706

They're retired

 

757

00:26:47,706 --> 00:26:48,873

they're yeah it's there

 

758

00:26:48,873 --> 00:26:50,008

if you want to drive it whatever.

 

759

00:26:50,008 --> 00:26:51,242

Yeah here's are the cars,

 

760

00:26:51,242 --> 00:26:52,243

blah, blah, blah.

 

761

00:26:52,243 --> 00:26:53,511

And they're just like,

 

762

00:26:53,511 --> 00:26:54,512

dealing with your granddad.

 

763

00:26:54,512 --> 00:26:56,014

They're both great guys.

 

764

00:26:56,014 --> 00:26:57,515

And we talked to one first

 

765

00:26:57,515 --> 00:26:58,717

and then the other one got involved

 

766

00:26:58,717 --> 00:27:01,119

and Julie goes, Well,

 

767

00:27:01,119 --> 00:27:01,987

I was telling the other guy

 

768

00:27:01,987 --> 00:27:02,554

and I don't know

 

769

00:27:02,554 --> 00:27:03,755

which one you guys, you know,

 

770

00:27:03,755 --> 00:27:04,789

gets the credit for or whatever,

 

771

00:27:04,789 --> 00:27:06,491

because the other guy, he goes now

 

772

00:27:06,491 --> 00:27:06,992

work it out.

 

773

00:27:06,992 --> 00:27:08,960

That's Fred, That's no big deal.

 

774

00:27:08,960 --> 00:27:10,662

So yeah, anyhow.

 

775

00:27:11,730 --> 00:27:14,733

The

 

776

00:27:15,300 --> 00:27:18,303

yeah.

 

777

00:27:26,978 --> 00:27:29,981

wow.

 

778

00:27:32,017 --> 00:27:35,020

Yeah.

 

779

00:27:59,077 --> 00:28:02,080

Yeah,

 

780

00:28:13,558 --> 00:28:14,959

yeah,

 

781

00:28:14,959 --> 00:28:17,962

yeah,

 

782

00:28:19,964 --> 00:28:22,967

yeah.

 

783

00:28:52,097 --> 00:28:55,100

Yeah.

 

784

00:29:39,811 --> 00:29:42,814

Yeah.

 

785

00:29:48,019 --> 00:29:51,022

Well.

 

786

00:29:52,323 --> 00:29:55,326

You never negotiate the monthly payments.

 

787

00:29:55,527 --> 00:29:57,996

You only negotiate the bottom line

 

788

00:29:57,996 --> 00:29:59,864

at a car dealership.

 

789

00:29:59,864 --> 00:30:00,398

All right,

 

790

00:30:00,398 --> 00:30:02,734

I will give this lady's information out.

 

791

00:30:02,734 --> 00:30:04,702

Also, she's just cool as hell.

 

792

00:30:04,702 --> 00:30:06,638

I mean, I love her videos, man.

 

793

00:30:06,638 --> 00:30:07,772

She's awesome.

 

794

00:30:07,772 --> 00:30:10,675

It's a car girl.

 

795

00:30:10,675 --> 00:30:13,011

Ticktalk at yahoo.com.

 

796

00:30:13,011 --> 00:30:15,713

So I guess I'm ticked off.

 

797

00:30:15,713 --> 00:30:17,482

She's car girl or whatever, but she's.

 

798

00:30:17,482 --> 00:30:19,117

I mean, she's ruthless, man. She don't.

 

799

00:30:19,117 --> 00:30:20,552

And she can help you buy a car.

 

800

00:30:20,552 --> 00:30:23,488

Whatever, you know. All right.

 

801

00:30:23,488 --> 00:30:25,757

Cartoon Entertainment,

 

802

00:30:25,757 --> 00:30:28,059

Car Girl

 

803

00:30:28,059 --> 00:30:31,062

Ticktalk at Yahoo.com.

 

804

00:30:31,529 --> 00:30:32,230

And the tick tock.

 

805

00:30:32,230 --> 00:30:33,364

Tick, tick

 

806

00:30:33,364 --> 00:30:36,401

tock for you, for you old timers.

 

807

00:30:37,368 --> 00:30:40,371

But it's like like there's five

 

808

00:30:40,405 --> 00:30:41,105

five questions

 

809

00:30:41,105 --> 00:30:43,441

you don't answer at the car dealership

 

810

00:30:43,441 --> 00:30:44,642

was the last.

 

811

00:30:44,642 --> 00:30:46,277

I don't know. I don't care.

 

812

00:30:46,277 --> 00:30:47,378

All right.

 

813

00:30:47,378 --> 00:30:47,745

All right.

 

814

00:30:47,745 --> 00:30:48,246

So there

 

815

00:30:48,246 --> 00:30:50,715

the other thing is breaking down

 

816

00:30:50,715 --> 00:30:51,516

your bid.

 

817

00:30:51,516 --> 00:30:52,951

Do you break down your bid?

 

818

00:30:52,951 --> 00:30:55,486

And I will tell you something.

 

819

00:30:55,486 --> 00:30:56,120

 

 

820

00:30:57,255 --> 00:30:58,389

I don't

 

821

00:30:58,389 --> 00:31:01,392

break down my bid.

 

822

00:31:01,926 --> 00:31:02,827

I just don't

 

823

00:31:02,827 --> 00:31:04,195

and I don't think it's a good idea to

 

824

00:31:04,195 --> 00:31:05,063

and I think some

 

825

00:31:05,063 --> 00:31:06,564

some people definitely do.

 

826

00:31:06,564 --> 00:31:08,166

They will break down the bid

 

827

00:31:08,166 --> 00:31:09,567

and they think it's

 

828

00:31:09,567 --> 00:31:10,468

you know, it's a way to go.

 

829

00:31:10,468 --> 00:31:11,936

So, again, there's a disclaimer.

 

830

00:31:11,936 --> 00:31:13,171

It's just my opinion

 

831

00:31:13,171 --> 00:31:15,106

and the opinion of many people.

 

832

00:31:15,106 --> 00:31:18,109

Every time a

 

833

00:31:20,912 --> 00:31:23,915

okay, so will.

 

834

00:31:29,287 --> 00:31:32,290

Yeah.

 

835

00:31:33,124 --> 00:31:35,260

I do that.

 

836

00:31:35,260 --> 00:31:38,263

Yes.

 

837

00:31:38,296 --> 00:31:41,299

Yeah,

 

838

00:31:44,502 --> 00:31:45,603

well, I do that.

 

839

00:31:45,603 --> 00:31:47,705

All everything you're going to do

 

840

00:31:47,705 --> 00:31:49,908

and then the bottom line price.

 

841

00:31:49,908 --> 00:31:52,076

But nothing, nothing.

 

842

00:31:52,076 --> 00:31:53,011

You know,

 

843

00:31:53,011 --> 00:31:54,412

I don't break down any part of the labor

 

844

00:31:54,412 --> 00:31:54,913

or the material

 

845

00:31:54,913 --> 00:31:56,581

or none of that kind of stuff.

 

846

00:31:56,581 --> 00:31:57,882

But just the bottom line price,

 

847

00:31:57,882 --> 00:31:59,684

I definitely want them to know.

 

848

00:31:59,684 --> 00:32:01,286

I think it's important to know them

 

849

00:32:01,286 --> 00:32:03,821

what brand of flooring I'm going to use,

 

850

00:32:03,821 --> 00:32:05,723

what adhesive, what finish.

 

851

00:32:05,723 --> 00:32:07,358

All that stuff is very important,

 

852

00:32:07,358 --> 00:32:09,761

but I don't put a number inside

 

853

00:32:09,761 --> 00:32:11,062

any of them.

 

854

00:32:11,062 --> 00:32:13,364

And anytime you're getting

 

855

00:32:13,364 --> 00:32:14,432

you're going into a job,

 

856

00:32:14,432 --> 00:32:15,967

doing a job, you're a contractor.

 

857

00:32:15,967 --> 00:32:17,802

There's always a risk

 

858

00:32:17,802 --> 00:32:19,938

that something could go wrong.

 

859

00:32:19,938 --> 00:32:21,339

Sometimes things go your way,

 

860

00:32:21,339 --> 00:32:22,674

sometimes they don't go your way.

 

861

00:32:22,674 --> 00:32:23,841

And you know, you can charge

 

862

00:32:23,841 --> 00:32:25,143

whatever you want.

 

863

00:32:25,143 --> 00:32:28,179

But I don't think

 

864

00:32:29,013 --> 00:32:30,214

part of the thing is for me

 

865

00:32:30,214 --> 00:32:30,982

is a lot of times

 

866

00:32:30,982 --> 00:32:31,950

they don't understand

 

867

00:32:31,950 --> 00:32:33,918

when you break it down anyhow.

 

868

00:32:33,918 --> 00:32:36,487

And one of the biggest reasons for me is

 

869

00:32:36,487 --> 00:32:37,288

if you were to break down

 

870

00:32:37,288 --> 00:32:38,089

your labor, let's say

 

871

00:32:38,089 --> 00:32:38,856

you break down a labor

 

872

00:32:38,856 --> 00:32:39,991

for someone on the job

 

873

00:32:39,991 --> 00:32:41,559

and you say we charge

 

874

00:32:41,559 --> 00:32:43,461

sick $65 an hour for labor

 

875

00:32:43,461 --> 00:32:45,096

just to run out of number.

 

876

00:32:45,096 --> 00:32:48,199

Now you want a guy watching you

 

877

00:32:48,933 --> 00:32:49,767

working and going,

 

878

00:32:49,767 --> 00:32:51,302

well, at the end of the job

 

879

00:32:51,302 --> 00:32:52,770

they would go, No, I want money back.

 

880

00:32:52,770 --> 00:32:55,640

I know she was only here for 19.5 hours.

 

881

00:32:55,640 --> 00:32:56,307

You know what I mean?

 

882

00:32:56,307 --> 00:32:56,908

And you're in labor.

 

883

00:32:56,908 --> 00:32:57,709

You had done for you.

 

884

00:32:57,709 --> 00:32:58,876

You had down, you know,

 

885

00:32:58,876 --> 00:33:00,211

labor this amount.

 

886

00:33:00,211 --> 00:33:01,612

And yeah, he was only here

 

887

00:33:01,612 --> 00:33:03,047

for this amount of time.

 

888

00:33:03,047 --> 00:33:04,749

You know,

 

889

00:33:04,749 --> 00:33:06,551

they don't see what you do

 

890

00:33:06,551 --> 00:33:08,152

before you get to the job.

 

891

00:33:08,152 --> 00:33:08,453

You know,

 

892

00:33:08,453 --> 00:33:09,721

you don't see, you know,

 

893

00:33:09,721 --> 00:33:11,289

going picking up the material.

 

894

00:33:11,289 --> 00:33:13,358

Maybe you just it

 

895

00:33:13,358 --> 00:33:15,193

the trades on in the shop

 

896

00:33:15,193 --> 00:33:16,527

before you got there,

 

897

00:33:16,527 --> 00:33:18,296

just getting stuff ready for the job,

 

898

00:33:18,296 --> 00:33:19,263

you know, all the other stuff

 

899

00:33:19,263 --> 00:33:20,231

associated with it.

 

900

00:33:20,231 --> 00:33:21,366

Maybe they don't see it

 

901

00:33:21,366 --> 00:33:23,134

because you're not on the job site.

 

902

00:33:23,134 --> 00:33:26,137

So for that reason there, I,

 

903

00:33:26,671 --> 00:33:28,406

I don't ever do that.

 

904

00:33:28,406 --> 00:33:32,110

I also don't let them pay for material

 

905

00:33:32,110 --> 00:33:33,144

because that's the other thing

 

906

00:33:33,144 --> 00:33:33,878

when you break it down

 

907

00:33:33,878 --> 00:33:34,645

you see my material

 

908

00:33:34,645 --> 00:33:37,081

for the would cost 40 $500.

 

909

00:33:37,081 --> 00:33:38,449

Well, maybe they can go

 

910

00:33:38,449 --> 00:33:39,517

well I can get that for

 

911

00:33:39,517 --> 00:33:41,119

30 $900 over at Joe

 

912

00:33:42,220 --> 00:33:43,988

Bob's Bob's place.

 

913

00:33:43,988 --> 00:33:45,623

Well

 

914

00:33:45,623 --> 00:33:48,726

part of that 40 $500 is is your overhead.

 

915

00:33:49,127 --> 00:33:50,495

You got to charge for your overhead.

 

916

00:33:50,495 --> 00:33:52,597

I mean, that that overhead never changes.

 

917

00:33:52,597 --> 00:33:54,465

So something have to happen

 

918

00:33:54,465 --> 00:33:55,700

either your overhead over your

 

919

00:33:55,700 --> 00:33:57,235

either your material costs,

 

920

00:33:57,235 --> 00:33:58,836

you have to markup

 

921

00:33:58,836 --> 00:33:59,937

or you got to

 

922

00:33:59,937 --> 00:34:02,407

charge more money for your labor.

 

923

00:34:02,407 --> 00:34:03,875

So it doesn't really work

 

924

00:34:03,875 --> 00:34:05,476

when they say, well, supply the labor.

 

925

00:34:05,476 --> 00:34:07,345

And oftentimes

 

926

00:34:07,345 --> 00:34:08,346

when they do supply the labor,

 

927

00:34:08,346 --> 00:34:10,281

you ever had this,

 

928

00:34:10,281 --> 00:34:12,216

they bring it cheap.

 

929

00:34:12,216 --> 00:34:13,918

No, no, no, no material. Sorry.

 

930

00:34:13,918 --> 00:34:14,786

Thank you.

 

931

00:34:14,786 --> 00:34:17,455

If they were supplying the material.

 

932

00:34:17,455 --> 00:34:20,458

Okay.

 

933

00:34:23,094 --> 00:34:24,595

Yeah,

 

934

00:34:24,595 --> 00:34:26,531

yeah, yeah.

 

935

00:34:26,531 --> 00:34:29,534

Price goes up.

 

936

00:34:30,501 --> 00:34:33,337

Yeah.

 

937

00:34:33,337 --> 00:34:36,340

Yeah.

 

938

00:34:38,242 --> 00:34:38,810

Yeah.

 

939

00:34:38,810 --> 00:34:40,011

We have.

 

940

00:34:40,011 --> 00:34:42,313

There's a lot of costs

 

941

00:34:42,313 --> 00:34:45,416

associated with handling material and

 

942

00:34:45,416 --> 00:34:46,451

in the planning

 

943

00:34:46,451 --> 00:34:47,351

and all that kind of stuff,

 

944

00:34:47,351 --> 00:34:48,653

picking it up and everything.

 

945

00:34:48,653 --> 00:34:50,121

So if I can't,

 

946

00:34:50,121 --> 00:34:50,888

if I can't,

 

947

00:34:50,888 --> 00:34:51,756

if I can't markup

 

948

00:34:51,756 --> 00:34:53,324

that I got to mark up the labor

 

949

00:34:53,324 --> 00:34:54,158

one way or the other.

 

950

00:34:54,158 --> 00:34:56,928

And if they drop off the material,

 

951

00:34:56,928 --> 00:34:59,130

if they pick up the material,

 

952

00:34:59,130 --> 00:35:01,566

oftentimes it's like crap material

 

953

00:35:01,566 --> 00:35:03,367

that I would never bought myself

 

954

00:35:03,367 --> 00:35:05,436

because it's going to make my job harder

 

955

00:35:05,436 --> 00:35:06,838

or they don't have

 

956

00:35:06,838 --> 00:35:07,738

all the material there.

 

957

00:35:07,738 --> 00:35:11,008

There's missing pieces or they have to.

 

958

00:35:11,008 --> 00:35:11,909

They didn't order enough.

 

959

00:35:11,909 --> 00:35:13,444

And now I got to wait,

 

960

00:35:13,444 --> 00:35:15,913

you know, or to pick up more or

 

961

00:35:15,913 --> 00:35:17,415

I have to pick up more to finish a job.

 

962

00:35:17,415 --> 00:35:18,583

Now you've delayed me.

 

963

00:35:18,583 --> 00:35:19,817

All that kind of stuff is bad.

 

964

00:35:19,817 --> 00:35:20,751

They're not professionals

 

965

00:35:20,751 --> 00:35:21,652

on ordering stuff.

 

966

00:35:21,652 --> 00:35:22,720

And that's that's

 

967

00:35:22,720 --> 00:35:24,455

that's why I would do it myself.

 

968

00:35:25,990 --> 00:35:26,557

The other

 

969

00:35:26,557 --> 00:35:29,560

thing about breaking down the material

 

970

00:35:29,760 --> 00:35:32,763

is let's say you

 

971

00:35:34,398 --> 00:35:37,268

you say, all right, I need I'm just

 

972

00:35:37,268 --> 00:35:37,668

I don't know.

 

973

00:35:37,668 --> 00:35:39,904

I'm 19 stair treads.

 

974

00:35:39,904 --> 00:35:40,705

Right.

 

975

00:35:40,705 --> 00:35:43,141

And you bring 21 to the job

 

976

00:35:43,141 --> 00:35:45,309

and you bring it or you charge it for 21

 

977

00:35:45,309 --> 00:35:46,244

because maybe you

 

978

00:35:46,244 --> 00:35:47,812

you know, it's a very picky customer.

 

979

00:35:47,812 --> 00:35:49,046

Maybe the grain won't look right

 

980

00:35:49,046 --> 00:35:49,814

or whatever,

 

981

00:35:49,814 --> 00:35:52,150

or maybe by 24 treads and whatever.

 

982

00:35:52,150 --> 00:35:54,352

And then

 

983

00:35:54,352 --> 00:35:56,420

yeah, yeah.

 

984

00:35:56,420 --> 00:35:57,655

And then they go, Well, anyway,

 

985

00:35:57,655 --> 00:36:00,558

you only use 19 and you charge me for 24,

 

986

00:36:00,558 --> 00:36:01,826

you know what I mean?

 

987

00:36:01,826 --> 00:36:02,660

And now,

 

988

00:36:02,660 --> 00:36:03,995

now you don't have that conversation.

 

989

00:36:03,995 --> 00:36:04,795

You can't even credit

 

990

00:36:04,795 --> 00:36:06,964

you get a credit me back, something so.

 

991

00:36:06,964 --> 00:36:07,398

Some.

 

992

00:36:07,398 --> 00:36:11,269

People feel like it's, it's like

 

993

00:36:11,269 --> 00:36:12,336

you trying to hide something

 

994

00:36:12,336 --> 00:36:12,803

when you don't

 

995

00:36:12,803 --> 00:36:14,138

when you don't break down the labor

 

996

00:36:14,138 --> 00:36:14,906

costs on that.

 

997

00:36:14,906 --> 00:36:17,008

You just give a bottom line number.

 

998

00:36:17,008 --> 00:36:17,675

But I don't

 

999

00:36:17,675 --> 00:36:19,277

I don't see it that way at all.

 

1000

00:36:19,277 --> 00:36:19,677

Yeah, I'm

 

1001

00:36:19,677 --> 00:36:21,112

not I'm not twisting your arm

 

1002

00:36:21,112 --> 00:36:22,747

to get into this deal with me.

 

1003

00:36:22,747 --> 00:36:25,616

You, you, you.

 

1004

00:36:25,616 --> 00:36:27,118

I've spelled out what I'm going to do

 

1005

00:36:27,118 --> 00:36:28,986

and I'm giving you a price.

 

1006

00:36:28,986 --> 00:36:30,755

And if this doesn't work for you,

 

1007

00:36:30,755 --> 00:36:31,956

then I'm.

 

1008

00:36:31,956 --> 00:36:34,959

You know, you don't have to go with me,

 

1009

00:36:35,459 --> 00:36:36,327

so.

 

1010

00:36:45,069 --> 00:36:47,071

Yeah, those are mine.

 

1011

00:36:47,071 --> 00:36:48,839

Yeah.

 

1012

00:36:48,839 --> 00:36:50,441

Yeah, exactly.

 

1013

00:36:50,441 --> 00:36:53,444

No.

 

1014

00:36:54,679 --> 00:36:57,682

Yeah,

 

1015

00:37:00,284 --> 00:37:00,785

yeah.

 

1016

00:37:00,785 --> 00:37:03,788

Listen.

 

1017

00:37:04,088 --> 00:37:06,924

Yeah,

 

1018

00:37:06,924 --> 00:37:08,159

it.

 

1019

00:37:08,159 --> 00:37:10,261

If it's open boxes, I don't mind as it

 

1020

00:37:10,261 --> 00:37:11,562

refinish floors, open boxes,

 

1021

00:37:11,562 --> 00:37:13,030

I don't mind giving them the f

 

1022

00:37:13,030 --> 00:37:14,198

I don't want them to have it.

 

1023

00:37:14,198 --> 00:37:15,666

I'm fine with that.

 

1024

00:37:15,666 --> 00:37:18,669

But

 

1025

00:37:19,937 --> 00:37:22,940

yeah,

 

1026

00:37:25,009 --> 00:37:27,712

yeah,

 

1027

00:37:27,712 --> 00:37:29,013

yeah.

 

1028

00:37:29,013 --> 00:37:30,081

Listen,

 

1029

00:37:30,081 --> 00:37:30,948

the reason you order

 

1030

00:37:30,948 --> 00:37:32,917

that exactly the reason you order

 

1031

00:37:32,917 --> 00:37:34,852

that is and bring it to the job site

 

1032

00:37:34,852 --> 00:37:37,188

is because you could open up a box.

 

1033

00:37:37,188 --> 00:37:37,722

The box

 

1034

00:37:37,722 --> 00:37:39,357

B they didn't put the grooves in them

 

1035

00:37:39,357 --> 00:37:39,790

or something.

 

1036

00:37:39,790 --> 00:37:40,758

There could be offers,

 

1037

00:37:40,758 --> 00:37:41,192

you know what I mean?

 

1038

00:37:41,192 --> 00:37:42,126

There could be all kinds

 

1039

00:37:42,126 --> 00:37:43,427

of different reasons why.

 

1040

00:37:43,427 --> 00:37:44,729

And so you didn't.

 

1041

00:37:44,729 --> 00:37:46,163

That's not your material.

 

1042

00:37:46,163 --> 00:37:46,864

It's it's

 

1043

00:37:46,864 --> 00:37:48,966

you got the material for this job.

 

1044

00:37:48,966 --> 00:37:51,302

And and here's the other thing, too.

 

1045

00:37:51,302 --> 00:37:54,305

When you talk about them, you know,

 

1046

00:37:55,072 --> 00:37:56,173

you know,

 

1047

00:37:57,208 --> 00:37:57,575

paying for

 

1048

00:37:57,575 --> 00:37:58,576

material or whatever

 

1049

00:37:58,576 --> 00:37:59,810

and negotiating stuff,

 

1050

00:37:59,810 --> 00:38:01,012

no one's ever going to come back to you

 

1051

00:38:01,012 --> 00:38:01,712

in the jungle.

 

1052

00:38:01,712 --> 00:38:03,381

I notice you needed six

 

1053

00:38:03,381 --> 00:38:04,649

more treads

 

1054

00:38:04,649 --> 00:38:05,850

to finish the job

 

1055

00:38:05,850 --> 00:38:08,286

and let me pay you for that.

 

1056

00:38:08,286 --> 00:38:11,255

It never goes that direction, does it?

 

1057

00:38:11,756 --> 00:38:13,791

Yeah, it never does that.

 

1058

00:38:13,791 --> 00:38:16,794

And the other thing too, is.

 

1059

00:38:25,836 --> 00:38:28,839

Yeah,

 

1060

00:38:44,088 --> 00:38:47,058

yeah, yeah, yeah,

 

1061

00:38:48,893 --> 00:38:49,327

yeah.

 

1062

00:38:49,327 --> 00:38:49,960

There you go.

 

1063

00:38:49,960 --> 00:38:52,963

Yeah,

 

1064

00:38:54,298 --> 00:38:55,032

yeah.

 

1065

00:38:55,032 --> 00:39:00,304

Listen, when you know that doesn't

 

1066

00:39:00,371 --> 00:39:03,374

doesn't work that way,

 

1067

00:39:04,141 --> 00:39:04,608

if it,

 

1068

00:39:04,608 --> 00:39:05,910

if the job ever takes

 

1069

00:39:05,910 --> 00:39:09,847

you longer to do than you expected,

 

1070

00:39:09,847 --> 00:39:10,748

no one ever,

 

1071

00:39:10,748 --> 00:39:11,515

you know

 

1072

00:39:11,515 --> 00:39:12,516

says hey listen, let me,

 

1073

00:39:12,516 --> 00:39:13,417

let me make up the difference

 

1074

00:39:13,417 --> 00:39:14,218

on that either. Right.

 

1075

00:39:14,218 --> 00:39:16,687

You entered into a deal with somebody

 

1076

00:39:16,687 --> 00:39:18,589

and you give them a flat rate

 

1077

00:39:18,589 --> 00:39:19,790

and that's the price.

 

1078

00:39:19,790 --> 00:39:20,858

Whether

 

1079

00:39:20,858 --> 00:39:21,258

whether

 

1080

00:39:21,258 --> 00:39:22,560

and if you could do it in a short

 

1081

00:39:22,560 --> 00:39:24,495

amount of time than you expected

 

1082

00:39:24,495 --> 00:39:28,032

and do it professionally, whatever, then

 

1083

00:39:28,032 --> 00:39:28,699

that's that's

 

1084

00:39:28,699 --> 00:39:30,301

just the way it goes sometimes,

 

1085

00:39:30,301 --> 00:39:31,335

you know what I mean?

 

1086

00:39:31,335 --> 00:39:33,003

Because Sometimes you go

 

1087

00:39:33,003 --> 00:39:33,671

the other direction.

 

1088

00:39:33,671 --> 00:39:35,072

So and if they did,

 

1089

00:39:35,072 --> 00:39:35,973

they would have to pay for it.

 

1090

00:39:35,973 --> 00:39:36,707

So the way there's

 

1091

00:39:36,707 --> 00:39:38,075

arrangement is if, hey,

 

1092

00:39:38,075 --> 00:39:39,610

this is the price and

 

1093

00:39:39,610 --> 00:39:41,078

and this is the way it goes.

 

1094

00:39:41,078 --> 00:39:42,113

And it's nothing hidden about

 

1095

00:39:43,114 --> 00:39:45,216

The other thing about

 

1096

00:39:45,216 --> 00:39:46,250

not breaking down the labor

 

1097

00:39:46,250 --> 00:39:47,318

rate too, is sometimes

 

1098

00:39:47,318 --> 00:39:48,152

if they look at it, say,

 

1099

00:39:48,152 --> 00:39:49,120

okay, what's your labor rate?

 

1100

00:39:49,120 --> 00:39:51,155

It's $85 an hour.

 

1101

00:39:51,155 --> 00:39:54,191

Well, a lot of people were like,

 

1102

00:39:54,191 --> 00:39:55,860

my gosh, $85 an hour.

 

1103

00:39:55,860 --> 00:39:56,660

I mean, that's crazy.

 

1104

00:39:56,660 --> 00:39:57,862

I'm there, but it's too much money,

 

1105

00:39:57,862 --> 00:40:00,297

especially if they're making $30 an hour.

 

1106

00:40:00,297 --> 00:40:02,233

And but.

 

1107

00:40:02,233 --> 00:40:04,335

They don't mind.

 

1108

00:40:04,335 --> 00:40:05,836

Sometimes it's more palatable

 

1109

00:40:05,836 --> 00:40:07,071

to give them the bottom line price of,

 

1110

00:40:07,071 --> 00:40:09,807

yeah, it's $10,500 to do the job

 

1111

00:40:09,807 --> 00:40:10,908

because they can look around it and go,

 

1112

00:40:10,908 --> 00:40:12,143

all right, yeah, the word

 

1113

00:40:12,143 --> 00:40:13,878

expensive labor is expensive, right?

 

1114

00:40:13,878 --> 00:40:16,647

Yeah, I could see $10,500.

 

1115

00:40:16,647 --> 00:40:17,415

But if you tell them, yeah,

 

1116

00:40:17,415 --> 00:40:17,782

my labor

 

1117

00:40:17,782 --> 00:40:19,483

rate is $85 an hour,

 

1118

00:40:19,483 --> 00:40:20,418

then they're like,

 

1119

00:40:20,418 --> 00:40:21,819

this guy's gouging me at 85.

 

1120

00:40:21,819 --> 00:40:22,753

Gives some,

 

1121

00:40:22,753 --> 00:40:23,621

some for some reason

 

1122

00:40:23,621 --> 00:40:25,556

they don't see the value in trades

 

1123

00:40:25,556 --> 00:40:26,557

charge that much.

 

1124

00:40:26,557 --> 00:40:28,025

Now they'll drop off a Toyota

 

1125

00:40:28,025 --> 00:40:29,393

to a mechanic shop.

 

1126

00:40:29,393 --> 00:40:31,996

We charge $180 an hour. And

 

1127

00:40:35,900 --> 00:40:38,269

yeah.

 

1128

00:40:38,269 --> 00:40:39,336

The other thing no one ever

 

1129

00:40:39,336 --> 00:40:42,373

takes into account is the consumers is

 

1130

00:40:42,440 --> 00:40:42,973

how many

 

1131

00:40:42,973 --> 00:40:43,574

how much

 

1132

00:40:43,574 --> 00:40:46,644

you have in tools to do that job.

 

1133

00:40:47,344 --> 00:40:49,814

I mean, you look at the cost of a sander.

 

1134

00:40:49,814 --> 00:40:50,114

The.

 

1135

00:40:50,114 --> 00:40:52,450

Your you know, all your power tools.

 

1136

00:40:52,450 --> 00:40:53,083

I mean, you know,

 

1137

00:40:53,083 --> 00:40:55,986

you need $13,000 with the tools

 

1138

00:40:55,986 --> 00:40:56,887

just on an install

 

1139

00:40:56,887 --> 00:40:58,656

sometimes all the the just

 

1140

00:40:58,656 --> 00:41:01,625

the Sanders this the you know chops up

 

1141

00:41:01,625 --> 00:41:02,927

the the

 

1142

00:41:02,927 --> 00:41:04,762

the routers, the table saws

 

1143

00:41:04,762 --> 00:41:05,563

and all the hand

 

1144

00:41:05,563 --> 00:41:06,730

tools, all that kind of stuff

 

1145

00:41:06,730 --> 00:41:07,932

and all the specialty tools

 

1146

00:41:07,932 --> 00:41:11,735

and jam saws and festivals and all that,

 

1147

00:41:11,902 --> 00:41:14,905

all that stuff you need.

 

1148

00:41:16,073 --> 00:41:19,076

Yeah, yeah,

 

1149

00:41:22,213 --> 00:41:24,448

yeah,

 

1150

00:41:24,448 --> 00:41:26,684

yeah, yeah.

 

1151

00:41:26,684 --> 00:41:29,687

Yep,

 

1152

00:41:30,688 --> 00:41:33,691

yeah,

 

1153

00:41:34,925 --> 00:41:35,359

yeah.

 

1154

00:41:35,359 --> 00:41:36,026

So

 

1155

00:41:36,026 --> 00:41:37,561

when you

 

1156

00:41:37,561 --> 00:41:38,462

want me to break down

 

1157

00:41:38,462 --> 00:41:39,830

the job, to me, it's.

 

1158

00:41:39,830 --> 00:41:41,765

I will break it down for you.

 

1159

00:41:41,765 --> 00:41:45,002

It's $15,000 for me to do the job or

 

1160

00:41:45,002 --> 00:41:46,537

zero If I don't do the job,

 

1161

00:41:47,771 --> 00:41:48,973

I,

 

1162

00:41:48,973 --> 00:41:51,442

I mean that's the way I break it down.

 

1163

00:41:51,442 --> 00:41:54,311

Now I will say it again.

 

1164

00:41:54,311 --> 00:41:55,846

It's just my opinion.

 

1165

00:41:55,846 --> 00:41:58,082

Some people think that

 

1166

00:41:58,082 --> 00:41:59,517

they just want everything out. You know?

 

1167

00:41:59,517 --> 00:42:00,484

I want like I said,

 

1168

00:42:00,484 --> 00:42:02,586

I don't like you said,

 

1169

00:42:02,586 --> 00:42:03,754

I want to break down.

 

1170

00:42:03,754 --> 00:42:04,455

I'm going to use

 

1171

00:42:04,455 --> 00:42:05,689

exploring,

 

1172

00:42:05,689 --> 00:42:06,056

you know,

 

1173

00:42:06,056 --> 00:42:06,724

and I'm going to use

 

1174

00:42:06,724 --> 00:42:08,459

exactly this finish exactly this.

 

1175

00:42:08,459 --> 00:42:09,426

I want, you know, exactly

 

1176

00:42:09,426 --> 00:42:10,761

what I'm going to do step by step.

 

1177

00:42:10,761 --> 00:42:11,695

I'll do all that.

 

1178

00:42:11,695 --> 00:42:14,698

I want that broken down.

 

1179

00:42:15,165 --> 00:42:18,168

Yeah.

 

1180

00:42:19,069 --> 00:42:19,303

Yeah.

 

1181

00:42:19,303 --> 00:42:20,237

I don't.

 

1182

00:42:20,237 --> 00:42:20,838

I don't do that.

 

1183

00:42:20,838 --> 00:42:22,740

No charging.

 

1184

00:42:22,740 --> 00:42:25,342

Yeah. Okay.

 

1185

00:42:25,342 --> 00:42:28,345

Okay, fair enough.

 

1186

00:42:28,679 --> 00:42:31,682

Okay.

 

1187

00:42:36,787 --> 00:42:39,790

Yeah.

 

1188

00:43:25,069 --> 00:43:28,072

Yeah.

 

1189

00:44:20,457 --> 00:44:21,492

Well, couple thing is,

 

1190

00:44:21,492 --> 00:44:22,559

is he expecting you?

 

1191

00:44:22,559 --> 00:44:25,562

The other floor to be maple

 

1192

00:44:25,829 --> 00:44:27,631

is okay, but he can't see it.

 

1193

00:44:27,631 --> 00:44:28,532

He's going in blind.

 

1194

00:44:32,569 --> 00:44:35,572

I

 

1195

00:44:39,009 --> 00:44:42,012

Okay.

 

1196

00:44:44,948 --> 00:44:46,350

Yeah, well, I would tell him.

 

1197

00:44:46,350 --> 00:44:48,385

I have no idea what's going on in here.

 

1198

00:44:48,385 --> 00:44:48,652

I just.

 

1199

00:44:48,652 --> 00:44:50,587

I just could be anything from.

 

1200

00:44:50,587 --> 00:44:52,289

The whole thing has to be tore out to.

 

1201

00:44:52,289 --> 00:44:52,523

Wow.

 

1202

00:44:52,523 --> 00:44:55,526

You got incredibly lucky and

 

1203

00:44:55,859 --> 00:44:57,261

with minimal effort.

 

1204

00:44:57,261 --> 00:44:58,595

Or don't take that back

 

1205

00:44:58,595 --> 00:45:00,097

because there's a lot of a lot of effort.

 

1206

00:45:00,097 --> 00:45:01,265

But with. With.

 

1207

00:45:01,265 --> 00:45:03,467

But but with your sanding or really

 

1208

00:45:03,467 --> 00:45:05,135

have you were able to save it.

 

1209

00:45:05,135 --> 00:45:07,071

There can be anyone from from

 

1210

00:45:07,071 --> 00:45:08,672

one to the other. You have no idea.

 

1211

00:45:08,672 --> 00:45:11,675

I just don't know if I'd say

 

1212

00:45:17,648 --> 00:45:20,651

yeah, but I would say be aware.

 

1213

00:45:20,651 --> 00:45:22,853

If we do have to replace boards

 

1214

00:45:22,853 --> 00:45:24,655

that matching new wood,

 

1215

00:45:24,655 --> 00:45:26,924

especially maple against old maple,

 

1216

00:45:26,924 --> 00:45:28,192

is definitely going to be

 

1217

00:45:28,192 --> 00:45:29,393

a noticeable difference

 

1218

00:45:29,393 --> 00:45:31,762

in in in, in color.

 

1219

00:45:31,762 --> 00:45:34,264

And so just be aware of

 

1220

00:45:34,264 --> 00:45:35,099

that has to happen

 

1221

00:45:35,099 --> 00:45:38,469

You should expect that and

 

1222

00:45:39,036 --> 00:45:40,971

even Maple, even if it's not that old,

 

1223

00:45:40,971 --> 00:45:42,372

it doesn't have to be very old, old

 

1224

00:45:42,372 --> 00:45:42,740

to new.

 

1225

00:45:42,740 --> 00:45:46,009

Doesn't even northern maple versus

 

1226

00:45:46,009 --> 00:45:47,377

and down south somewhere

 

1227

00:45:47,377 --> 00:45:49,880

the big big difference

 

1228

00:45:49,880 --> 00:45:51,448

so that I would

 

1229

00:45:51,448 --> 00:45:52,950

that I would do ahead of time

 

1230

00:45:52,950 --> 00:45:53,617

but you had to throw it

 

1231

00:45:53,617 --> 00:45:54,318

as a church in there

 

1232

00:45:54,318 --> 00:45:55,185

to make me feel guilty

 

1233

00:45:55,185 --> 00:45:57,588

then you can just be a regular regular

 

1234

00:45:57,588 --> 00:46:00,824

like my Catholic guilt coming through.

 

1235

00:46:04,828 --> 00:46:07,831

So.

 

1236

00:46:15,906 --> 00:46:16,340

Yeah.

 

1237

00:46:16,340 --> 00:46:18,842

Yeah, for sure.

 

1238

00:46:18,842 --> 00:46:20,210

Yeah,

 

1239

00:46:20,210 --> 00:46:21,378

yeah.

 

1240

00:46:21,378 --> 00:46:23,447

This.

 

1241

00:46:23,447 --> 00:46:26,450

Yeah,

 

1242

00:46:29,286 --> 00:46:32,089

yeah.

 

1243

00:46:32,089 --> 00:46:33,390

You know, here's the other thing,

 

1244

00:46:33,390 --> 00:46:34,358

too, though. When.

 

1245

00:46:34,358 --> 00:46:35,392

When in a situation

 

1246

00:46:35,392 --> 00:46:36,660

like that, in a situation

 

1247

00:46:36,660 --> 00:46:37,661

when I talk about breaking down

 

1248

00:46:37,661 --> 00:46:39,096

the bids or whatever,

 

1249

00:46:39,096 --> 00:46:40,597

I think a lot of it

 

1250

00:46:40,597 --> 00:46:43,600

you back up with your reputation

 

1251

00:46:43,934 --> 00:46:45,135

if you're,

 

1252

00:46:45,135 --> 00:46:47,471

you have a reputation where you're ash me

 

1253

00:46:47,471 --> 00:46:48,705

you came referred your address

 

1254

00:46:48,705 --> 00:46:50,607

trusting guy or whatever like that.

 

1255

00:46:50,607 --> 00:46:53,443

I think that trumps most everything.

 

1256

00:46:53,443 --> 00:46:55,412

So in a situation like that,

 

1257

00:46:55,412 --> 00:46:56,580

you know, if he just tells me

 

1258

00:46:56,580 --> 00:46:57,181

we can go

 

1259

00:46:57,181 --> 00:46:58,382

as far as you want to go

 

1260

00:46:58,382 --> 00:46:59,149

and give you a cost

 

1261

00:46:59,149 --> 00:47:00,217

to tear out the carpet,

 

1262

00:47:00,217 --> 00:47:01,385

it's going to be this.

 

1263

00:47:01,385 --> 00:47:02,152

But then when you get

 

1264

00:47:02,152 --> 00:47:04,121

into the other stuff, we just don't know.

 

1265

00:47:04,121 --> 00:47:06,356

I can tell you what I normally charge

 

1266

00:47:06,356 --> 00:47:07,925

to Santa Refinish, an area this size

 

1267

00:47:07,925 --> 00:47:09,893

if there's nothing going on

 

1268

00:47:09,893 --> 00:47:10,727

but beware, even

 

1269

00:47:10,727 --> 00:47:12,663

the process is going to be more money

 

1270

00:47:12,663 --> 00:47:13,664

than I charge you here

 

1271

00:47:13,664 --> 00:47:16,166

because you got to take the adhesive off.

 

1272

00:47:16,166 --> 00:47:17,768

And that's going to be in itself

 

1273

00:47:17,768 --> 00:47:18,869

a nightmare.

 

1274

00:47:18,869 --> 00:47:21,338

So, you know, just be upfront about it.

 

1275

00:47:21,338 --> 00:47:21,738

So

 

1276

00:47:32,916 --> 00:47:35,886

I was

 

1277

00:47:36,320 --> 00:47:39,323

I was just talking to

 

1278

00:47:39,656 --> 00:47:40,991

I was just talking to someone

 

1279

00:47:40,991 --> 00:47:42,226

the other day.

 

1280

00:47:42,226 --> 00:47:45,262

We've got who we

 

1281

00:47:46,330 --> 00:47:48,365

I will call my brother John or Doug

 

1282

00:47:48,365 --> 00:47:49,566

and ask them,

 

1283

00:47:49,566 --> 00:47:51,735

even when I know the answer,

 

1284

00:47:51,735 --> 00:47:53,136

I just need to hear it from somebody else

 

1285

00:47:53,136 --> 00:47:55,372

sometimes, you know, here's what I got.

 

1286

00:47:55,372 --> 00:47:56,306

Here's what I'm thinking,

 

1287

00:47:56,306 --> 00:47:57,875

and I just want to just get there

 

1288

00:47:57,875 --> 00:47:59,910

just to hear it from somebody else.

 

1289

00:47:59,910 --> 00:48:02,913

Just because

 

1290

00:48:03,113 --> 00:48:06,183

I want to say also,

 

1291

00:48:06,183 --> 00:48:07,751

we had an email over the weekend,

 

1292

00:48:07,751 --> 00:48:10,287

you and I from.

 

1293

00:48:10,287 --> 00:48:12,956

Chris would.

 

1294

00:48:12,956 --> 00:48:14,925

Another way. They're from Chris Wood.

 

1295

00:48:14,925 --> 00:48:17,561

He's a force entering you in the UK

 

1296

00:48:17,561 --> 00:48:20,197

and yeah, yes, he asked me to send

 

1297

00:48:20,197 --> 00:48:21,999

a copy of our contract to them

 

1298

00:48:21,999 --> 00:48:23,267

which we did.

 

1299

00:48:23,267 --> 00:48:26,169

But it amazes me

 

1300

00:48:26,169 --> 00:48:27,971

that still to this day

 

1301

00:48:27,971 --> 00:48:29,273

that the show can go as,

 

1302

00:48:29,273 --> 00:48:31,241

you know, reach to the UK

 

1303

00:48:31,241 --> 00:48:33,543

and have English contractors

 

1304

00:48:33,543 --> 00:48:35,646

listen to the show, cracks me up.

 

1305

00:48:35,646 --> 00:48:39,349

I lived in England at one time and

 

1306

00:48:39,349 --> 00:48:40,717

yeah, Have you ever had fish and chips?

 

1307

00:48:40,717 --> 00:48:41,785

You know, fish chips, right.

 

1308

00:48:43,553 --> 00:48:44,588

I it's one of my

 

1309

00:48:44,588 --> 00:48:46,657

favorite memories living in England

 

1310

00:48:46,657 --> 00:48:48,325

in fish and chips, man.

 

1311

00:48:48,325 --> 00:48:49,693

It's like you've never had fish and chips

 

1312

00:48:49,693 --> 00:48:51,228

until you've had it there in a fish.

 

1313

00:48:51,228 --> 00:48:52,829

And chip store in the newspaper.

 

1314

00:48:52,829 --> 00:48:54,598

Wrapped up in newspaper.

 

1315

00:48:54,598 --> 00:48:55,365

In. The old days.

 

1316

00:48:55,365 --> 00:48:57,668

These wrap it up in regular newspaper.

 

1317

00:48:57,668 --> 00:48:59,102

And now they stop doing that

 

1318

00:48:59,102 --> 00:49:00,437

because because the ink

 

1319

00:49:00,437 --> 00:49:01,204

and the newspaper

 

1320

00:49:01,204 --> 00:49:02,706

could, you know,

 

1321

00:49:02,706 --> 00:49:04,975

have poison in it, I guess.

 

1322

00:49:04,975 --> 00:49:07,044

So they still use that newspaper,

 

1323

00:49:07,044 --> 00:49:09,346

but before they do any printing on it.

 

1324

00:49:09,346 --> 00:49:11,281

But my brother John and I were in this

 

1325

00:49:11,281 --> 00:49:12,349

the time we were in Ireland

 

1326

00:49:12,349 --> 00:49:14,051

and we were at a fish and chip stop shop.

 

1327

00:49:14,051 --> 00:49:15,252

Okay.

 

1328

00:49:15,252 --> 00:49:18,055

And I was American.

 

1329

00:49:18,055 --> 00:49:19,489

So I thought,

 

1330

00:49:19,489 --> 00:49:19,823

it's funny,

 

1331

00:49:19,823 --> 00:49:20,524

they call them chefs

 

1332

00:49:20,524 --> 00:49:21,558

because they're French fries,

 

1333

00:49:21,558 --> 00:49:22,659

you know what I mean?

 

1334

00:49:22,659 --> 00:49:25,662

So there's a lady in front of us

 

1335

00:49:25,896 --> 00:49:27,965

and Irish lady.

 

1336

00:49:27,965 --> 00:49:28,665

And then we were talking.

 

1337

00:49:28,665 --> 00:49:29,199

I said, Yeah,

 

1338

00:49:29,199 --> 00:49:32,202

the chips are actually French fries.

 

1339

00:49:32,336 --> 00:49:34,237

Stupid American

 

1340

00:49:35,372 --> 00:49:37,641

is the stupid kid.

 

1341

00:49:37,641 --> 00:49:39,443

So

 

1342

00:49:39,443 --> 00:49:42,446

yeah, well, she was unimpressed.

 

1343

00:49:43,447 --> 00:49:44,781

Well, they're chips.

 

1344

00:49:44,781 --> 00:49:46,917

Is French fries in England.

 

1345

00:49:46,917 --> 00:49:47,784

Yeah. First.

 

1346

00:49:47,784 --> 00:49:48,218

Yeah.

 

1347

00:49:48,218 --> 00:49:50,354

So I told her there,

 

1348

00:49:50,354 --> 00:49:51,188

you know, in America

 

1349

00:49:51,188 --> 00:49:52,522

we can't French fries.

 

1350

00:49:52,522 --> 00:49:54,257

So she goes, Well, you're over here now.

 

1351

00:49:54,257 --> 00:49:54,524

Really?

 

1352

00:49:54,524 --> 00:49:54,791

So we,

 

1353

00:49:54,791 --> 00:49:56,159

we don't really care about what

 

1354

00:49:56,159 --> 00:49:56,827

they with,

 

1355

00:49:56,827 --> 00:49:58,662

but they're over there now, do we?

 

1356

00:49:58,662 --> 00:50:00,864

You know, like we were.

 

1357

00:50:00,864 --> 00:50:03,300

Not the answer I was looking for.

 

1358

00:50:03,300 --> 00:50:04,901

So my brother.

 

1359

00:50:04,901 --> 00:50:05,235

Yeah.

 

1360

00:50:05,235 --> 00:50:06,036

So my brother John,

 

1361

00:50:06,036 --> 00:50:07,671

me and John looked at each other

 

1362

00:50:07,671 --> 00:50:10,540

and so then we proceeded to say

 

1363

00:50:10,540 --> 00:50:12,009

French fries like.

 

1364

00:50:12,009 --> 00:50:13,643

A. World record.

 

1365

00:50:13,643 --> 00:50:14,444

Guinness Book of World

 

1366

00:50:14,444 --> 00:50:15,979

Records for French fries.

 

1367

00:50:15,979 --> 00:50:17,614

Johnny, you're going to want

 

1368

00:50:17,614 --> 00:50:18,782

ketchup on your French fries.

 

1369

00:50:18,782 --> 00:50:20,317

Well, you got to have competitive

 

1370

00:50:20,317 --> 00:50:21,518

French fries.

 

1371

00:50:21,518 --> 00:50:23,653

Yeah, It doesn't like salt and pepper

 

1372

00:50:23,653 --> 00:50:24,688

on your French fries, man.

 

1373

00:50:24,688 --> 00:50:25,989

I love French fries with that.

 

1374

00:50:25,989 --> 00:50:26,890

She turn around, man.

 

1375

00:50:28,058 --> 00:50:28,458

She's going

 

1376

00:50:28,458 --> 00:50:31,461

to beat the hell out of both of us.

 

1377

00:50:32,496 --> 00:50:33,230

right.

 

1378

00:50:33,230 --> 00:50:34,297

The memories.

 

1379

00:50:34,297 --> 00:50:36,033

All right, Rob.

 

1380

00:50:36,033 --> 00:50:37,167

I think that's all

 

1381

00:50:37,167 --> 00:50:41,471

we want to talk about on the

 

1382

00:50:41,471 --> 00:50:44,674

what you call the podcast,

 

1383

00:50:44,674 --> 00:50:46,777

giving us talking about beers,

 

1384

00:50:46,777 --> 00:50:49,746

giving discounts, breaking down your bid

 

1385

00:50:49,746 --> 00:50:54,451

and odd out the the mentors.

 

1386

00:50:54,451 --> 00:50:56,420

Yeah, I think we covered everything Rob

 

1387

00:50:56,420 --> 00:50:58,255

on a monday morning.

 

1388

00:50:58,255 --> 00:50:59,589

So there's been another episode

 

1389

00:50:59,589 --> 00:51:01,224

of On the Floor with Wayne and Rob.

 

1390

00:51:01,224 --> 00:51:02,626

Please stay tuned for another episode.