Thread: South Island Gunsmith

Originally Posted by Remington 5R .300 Win Mag

or, pay the (appropriate amount) for a bedding job so that they can eek enough cash out of me for to make it worth 'their' while, yeah?

They are not subtlety suggesting anything, you surmised due to offence

The adjusted quote above is now is closer to correct

We cant expect them to do work for us, when its not economically worth their while, if they did that for you, and everyone else, then they wont be there to do the work you want done next year

It is simply a matter of time spent versus income, day after day after day

Nobody wants to do a 4 hr job and be paid for a 2 hr one, then do that a couple of times a day, every day, Every week, Every year, When they have a full time income stream elsewhere

The type of people that do little jobs for little return are retired folk, who have time to spare and the coin is handy.

A more constructive approach from them would have been to advise you of the actual cost of the job, and if that was not satisfactory for you then show a cost reduction if you can advance your rifle modification timeframe and get more work done at the same time.

Im sure we can apply the same logic to most areas of labour added products and trade and the way we, as consumers of their labour added products and trade, employ the services of said providers.

We cant expect a top notch (time consuming) service/product whilst only paying what we "think" is correct.