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Sad Blue Collar Story, Learn from this before going on a service call #electrican #bluecollar

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Hendy The Sparky

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This video offers a crucial "blue-collar tip" for professionals, particularly electricians, on how to handle situations where customers provide their own materials for a service call. The advice highlights customer-supplied materials as a red flag, indicating a potential unwillingness to pay the professional's standard rates and undermining the professional's expertise. The presenter shares a personal anecdote where a customer had all materials for an outlet installation laid out and then attempted to significantly reduce the quoted price, offering only $50 for a service typically charged at $159.

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I got an important lifelong tip for any blueco collar worker that's going to a job for the first time if you're in a blue collar trade you need to listen up if you're going to a new job estimate whether it's a new customer's home or it's a new job site and the customer is handing you materials as you're giving your estimate you need to walk away that is an automatic red flag and that means the customer does not want to pay I'm an electrician and I'm 24 years old and that's what happened to me today when I was giving an estimate to a customer for an outlet here's a picture of the job I went to today guys so the customer wanted an outlet right behind his mini fridge and as I pulled up he had all the materials lay on top of his mini fridge he had the wire he had the plate he had the outlet and he gave me a look basically looking like I'm about to do it for free I told the customer our standard price $159 in Outlet that's what we usually charge and he just kept nickeling ding me he told me he's going to only going to give me $50 like what bro never let a homeowner change your price guys you are the expert you are the professional so

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