Have got two lads putting up a scaffold, they picked up the job from a contact that is now too busy. He had quoted 250, they took it on without looking at it on his word. Talking to them, they are saying its more of a job than they had been told and had they have quoted it would have been 300 plus.

They seem a decent pair of blokes, and I don't like to see people getting stiffed, and it's friday night, and they still have another hour or so to go.

Do I take the hardball stance or give them 280?

Interested in peoples opinions

 

If you're happy with the work give them the 280 + a cold beer - hot day to be working outside. I know I've not long got back from work.

 

Give em a few extra quid, and a few cold ones, it is friday, and it is the Bank Holiday weekend too

 

Give them the price quoted. Its not as if your going to need anything from them again is it ??

Keep the cold ones for yourself.

HTH

 

Cheers, that's what i was thinking

 

Give them what you were originally quoted, whilst enjoying a nice cold beer

 

Chip, give them £280, you stingy bugger

 

Give them a bit extra and you might not find a scoffold pole through your window in the morning

 

£250.00 + Tax and NIC if they give you NI numbers. Otherwise 20 quid each - they can hardly sue you if they are illegal

 

will they accept anything less than they are asking?

 

if they have a poblem with the price tell them to take it up with the bloke who passed the job on to them...

BM

 

Give them the £300 and then report them to the revenue for being cheeky.

 

I like that

 

all fair and well untill they come back and trash your car etc

 

I am rebuilding an old farm at the moment. If i fell for that trick i would be 100k down by now.

Its not your problem, its the contractor.

Keep it real

 

Now you have to be careful.

A bloke down the road from me fell out with some scaffolders for some reason...the consequence of that was they didn't come back to take it down. Thus his house was surrounded by scaffolding for the best part of six months

So, do they need to come back to take it back down? If so, they have you by the *****

 

Its easy enough to take down by yourself

 

And then you've got a load of scaffold as well.

John.

 

Give them £250.01.. and tell them to spend the change wisely

 

dont pay them until job is complete, ive never paid for work before the job is done. common sense, and the way of the world.

BM

 

Who takes a job on at an agreed price without checking what the job is? All's fair in business, it's their loss.