Couple CHANGES MY PRICES to get a DISCOUNT from ME for BUILDING THEIR NEW HOME
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🗓️ 28 December 2023
⏱️ 24 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | An entitled couple try to cheat me out of my contracting job, taking my prices and literally |
| 0:05.2 | changing them on the page I gave them, all under the assumption that I wouldn't see it, so that they |
| 0:10.0 | could get a discount on their new home they wanted me to build. |
| 0:13.3 | And I've honestly never been more blown away by somebody's entitlement in my life. |
| 0:17.8 | Here's what happened. |
| 0:18.8 | So I was working with a couple to renovate their home in New York City. |
| 0:22.4 | They had narrowed down their search to myself and one other person, |
| 0:25.7 | with me being the preferred client and the other |
| 0:28.0 | being the more budget option. |
| 0:29.6 | I gave these clients my detailed spreadsheet |
| 0:31.8 | of how much everything would cost |
| 0:33.2 | so that they could use it to pick and remove the non-essentials |
| 0:36.4 | in hopes of getting closer to the number they wanted. |
| 0:39.0 | And they had so many luxuries it really shouldn't have been that hard to do. Well a few days later they both |
| 0:44.2 | call me announcing that they've done it and they said this in a celebratory |
| 0:47.4 | manner. Now my price as designed was almost 1.7 million dollars if If I removed every single non-essential item, I could get the budgets down to 1.2 million dollars. |
| 0:58.0 | So I opened the sheet and they had somehow got down to 9955,000. |
| 1:03.4 | I look through it briefly and see literally nothing has been removed. |
| 1:07.0 | So we are about $600,000 or more lower to build the same house. |
| 1:11.8 | So I call the client to ask if I have the right |
| 1:13.8 | spreadsheet and the wife answers and says, oh sorry maybe not I'll resend it. They |
| 1:18.6 | resend it and we remain on the phone to go through it together. But guess what? |
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