Charging $3200 for Square D panel upgrades and holding firm

angi is the WORST for undercutting real work like that, full of hack jobs quoting half the price just to get in the door and leave you with callbacks. i had a guy last month try the same crap on me for a qo upgrade, waving around some angi screenshot for $1800, like thats gonna cover tracing wires and not frying the whole setup. homeowners these days think theyre experts from googling two minutes, but they dont get the liability we eat with those federal pacific fire hazards. sticking to $3200 was smart, dont let em bully you down. on the afci add-on, id push it every time now because inspectors are getting stricter and you dont wanna redo the job for free. angi and those lead gen sites are screwing the whole trade, driving prices into the ground while we clean up their messes. pissed me off so bad i stopped taking their leads altogether.

those angi lowballers piss me off every time, had a guy yesterday try to haggle me down on a similar qo swap and i almost walked, but yeah you shoulda tacked on the afci for that extra 300.

those angi quotes always lowball the real work, dont they? i stuck to my price on a similar federal pacific swap last month and the homeowner grumbled but paid up. now im kicking myself for not adding that afci upgrade too, seems like codes are pushing it everywhere. did you end up doing the afcis anyway or just the basics to keep it at 3200? and how long did tracing those wires take you, man?

those angi cheapos are the WORST, flooding the market with underpriced BS that leaves us cleaning up their sloppy unpermitted messes for years.

hell yeah, next time just tell em the afci add-on comes with a free exorcism for those haunted federal pacific ghosts, theyll cough up the extra $300 no problem 😂

those angi quotes are straight up BS, had a guy try the same haggling crap on me last week and i held firm too.

stick with the $3200 base quote next time; afci's are a hard sell unless the inspector's on your ass about it. if they push back, just show 'em the nec 210.12 requirements and let that do the talking.

dont skimp on those afci breakers, i saw a buddies job turn into a fire hazard nightmare when a cheap install sparked up in the wall... lesson learned the hard way.

damn angi quotes are always lowballing the real work, been there haggling over fpe swaps myself. you did right sticking to 3200, dont second guess it now.

man i hate when customers pull that angi crap, always tryna lowball you like we aint worth the time to trace those damn wires right.

those angi quotes are straight BS, always some fly-by-night hack cutting corners and i'll be damned if i drop my price just to chase their garbage leads.

man, angi quotes are always BS, i hate when customers pull that crap too, glad you held firm on the 3200.

angi's the worst, always lowballing with those shady leads that screw us over every time. good on you for holding firm, dont let em drag you down to their crap prices.

Same here man, had a guy yesterday bitch about my $2900 Eaton quote like I'm the bad guy for not doing it for free.