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How is being a business dishonest, genuine question.
It’s all about disclosure. The customer should be able to understand what they are being charged for and how that splits between labour, materials and anything else. If that’s all transparent then it’s obviously not dishonest.
What I dislike about the “% on materials” model is that you get charged more for selecting higher quality materials even if there’s no additional time required. Similarly, the contractor is incentivised to up-sell or over-spend to inflate the total materials cost.
Of course, if the job is competitively tendered and is delivered according to the initial plan, it shouldn’t make a difference either way, but we both know that it’s not like that in the real world.
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How is being a business dishonest, genuine question.
We aren't going to asda, the bike shop anywhere and get trade price material. There's nothing dishonest about trying to make a living, as I said earlier its a business and not a charity.
Are you going down the bakers or the butchers and going this is a dishonest operation as this loaf only costs 25p to make and you are charging me £5 for this. After all its flour, water and some salt.