brondondolon
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- Nov 12, 2013
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Hey guys so i have a customer i dont know how to handle. I joined a local car forum in my area and messaged the admin. I noticed on their forum they had a section for vendors and other local companies so i messaged the admin asking how to list my business on their site. He replied telling me that its $100 for the year. A few days later another admin messaged me asking what it would cost for a "best of everything" as he put it, package. I told him well "we have a few options. We can do a stage 3 which will get the car looking like new again, we can do a full paint correction which focuses mainly on the paint, and another option after a paint correction we can apply a paint coating." At first he seemed gung ho on the paint correction with paint coating so we set up a date to meet. He rescheduled twice because he was waiting on a part to come in so i kindly told him to message me when hes ready and we will set something up then.
Well two weeks pass and he sends me another message yesterday. He now not only wants a much cheaper package but he wants to work out a trade. The trade would be i do a stage 2 on his car which i charge min $150 but he wants me to do the other admins car and he wants $200 off the whole deal. Basically id do 16 hours of work for $100.... The problem is there really isnt many people on the site and the only active members are mainly "tuner" guys. Most of them have older RX-7 where the body panels dont match. Chances are the majority, if any, arent going to utilize my service.
I want to not only tell him no but HELL NO. The problem is i feel he kinda has me by the balls and can post on the forum a thread that im some scam or something because i told him no.
I would be inclined to making a trade of this nature and taking $100 off each of their detail if they were wanting something like a paint correction. But $100 off a package i charge minimum $150 for? Id rather just pay the $100 to be honest but at this point i think its out of the question.
Also part of the trade would be he and the other admin would post pictures and give me a good review on the forum. Problem is there is no guarantee of any business coming from this or they would even do a review.
How do you guys think i should handle this?
Well two weeks pass and he sends me another message yesterday. He now not only wants a much cheaper package but he wants to work out a trade. The trade would be i do a stage 2 on his car which i charge min $150 but he wants me to do the other admins car and he wants $200 off the whole deal. Basically id do 16 hours of work for $100.... The problem is there really isnt many people on the site and the only active members are mainly "tuner" guys. Most of them have older RX-7 where the body panels dont match. Chances are the majority, if any, arent going to utilize my service.
I want to not only tell him no but HELL NO. The problem is i feel he kinda has me by the balls and can post on the forum a thread that im some scam or something because i told him no.
I would be inclined to making a trade of this nature and taking $100 off each of their detail if they were wanting something like a paint correction. But $100 off a package i charge minimum $150 for? Id rather just pay the $100 to be honest but at this point i think its out of the question.
Also part of the trade would be he and the other admin would post pictures and give me a good review on the forum. Problem is there is no guarantee of any business coming from this or they would even do a review.
How do you guys think i should handle this?
