Do people haggle over price?
I don’t start anything without a firm agreement in place. That always involves an itemised quote, so that people can see exactly where all the costs are incurred. Sometimes people want to reduce the price just because they think we are too expensive, and I don’t negotiate on those grounds. If you know what’s involved, our prices are clearly not just good value: they are cheaper than the customer could do themselves for parts, and about the same as they’d pay for any good tradesman per hour. Sometimes people want to have a reduced price because an item is for a good cause, or gets me good publicity, or is for a low budget film, and I’m happy to look at each case like that on an individual basis.
