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Me either, in the shop is a good place to cut my throat with so many choices of implements to do it, but cutting planed pieces of wood and waiting for spring seems a lot better.

Some people do understand. I worked on a property next to a guy's residence that trains sumo wrestlers. After his observing and seeing some crane aided flying about, his comment was, "That's really man's work!". I didn't know Fiona then or I probably would have said. :)

That's a great point, Chris, about the degree of appreciation for the work. It can much set the tone of the communications. People should at least feel a degree of being fortunate...or maybe a better word is respectful, when they encounter a high degree of competency with someone in any...

Some people like to equate higher cost with quality, a higher price gives them some reason for assurance. Probably to some extent we all think that way. The problem is that it can be factual or it could be complete nonsense, it depends on the situation. It sure helps when a potential customer...

It's an old adage in the art world, if something doesn't sell, raise your prices.

Reminds me of a story in the news in the states many years ago. Some new car dealership had painted on the window of their showroom a promotion that said you could get one of the car models for only a certain number of "bananas". Some guy came in with the stated number of bananas, or cases...

Nice move, but even when you do something like that, it's debatable whether some people get the point of really having screwed themselves by trying to screw around someone else.

I spent about thirty minutes cutting a small Cherry and a small Yew for a lady by my shop. Nice folks, but her husband is absolutely useless in doing any kind of yard work, and when he does on rare occasion do it, it appears afterward that a helicopter landed upside down on the property. She...

You must mean the people that drive those big very expensive cars.

I well understand your point, Dave, And i think well taken. It's the customer's choice. I do see a lot of jobs by people of that approach that leave the woods a horrible mess, like a bomb got dropped on the place. No standard, I can't find justification for that. I guess the customer is...

Good point Shaun, about customs or an attitude possibly differing on an expectation to lower prices or not. Having had a business in a few countries, I found the people in the states generally good to work for, it being friendly there as far as customers wanting the producer of the service to...

A friend of mine has printed right on his business card, "Work for the wealthy and or wise". He doesn't like to negotiate.