Re: job shop auctions

Gerald,

I think $10 isn't enough, but it probably scares some time-wasters
away.

I quit bidding long ago. It's a waste of time. Besides, I don't want
to deal with customers who base their purchasing decisions on the
apparent low bid.

The worst customers I've dealt with are "inventors". As soon as a
potential customer mentions that he's an inventor I show him the
door. They're usually the ones who have no money, have lots of half
baked ideas and always insist on knowing exactly how much their
machine work will cost even though they can never tell you
specifically what they want done.

Doug

--- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@y..., Area51tats@a... wrote:
> The only problem with a shop bidding on something that you want
made is that
> you may ask 5 shops to bid on a job and only one of them is gonna
get the job
> and the other 4 shops have to eat the money they put into figuring
out what
> it was gonna cost. The shop I work at has finally got tired of it
and now we
> charge a minimum of $10 to tell you how much something might cost.
And we
> really only do that with a couple of companys that have there own
shop but
> ask us to quote a job and then they charge there customer what we
quoted the
> job at and do the job themselfs.
>
> Gerald
> Iowa