Contractor shares high bid storyfrom @howlingwolf.carpentry

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Hey. Apparently, there's a lot of work out there, so be careful what you bid. Check this one out. These customers are having some issues with their drawer glides, so I said better replace them with some better ones. Let's do the bloom tandem glides, and we're gonna do five drawers. Also having an issue with tier trash can pullout system, so I said better replace that with the Rev A Shelf maple soft close pullout system. Then finally, this newel post is worse. So I said, well, let's set a new newel post and we'll match the finish. I honestly did not have a huge desire to do this project just because it's not super exciting stuff, but it does fall within my scope of worse, so I gave them a price. I sent tier a proposal and I said, I will do all this for you for four thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars, thinking that I would never hear from them again. Just last week, they signed the proposal and they sent the deposit, and now it's on the calendar. And it makes me wonder, what was the alternative? What am I saving them from? What problem am I solving for them? Am I saving them thousands of dollars in marriage counseling because this is an opportunity for the husband to spend some money to make sure his wife is happy with their home? Are there just no other carpenters or contractors that we're willing to consider or look at this project? Or did they get multiple bids and was mine low and I don't know it? Either way, be careful what you bid because you might get it. So what do you think happened here? Is this fair? Was I the lowest bid? Could they not get anybody else to look at it? Or do they just want to press the easy button and no they don't have to worry about it? So be careful what you bid. I'm in between large projects right now, so I have an opportunity to pick up small projects like this. And something like this is not innately interesting, but anything is interesting for the right price.