GroundScapesIncorporated
LawnSite Senior Member
- Location
- VA
Lets say a nice lady calls you up and asks you to come look at a patio. Well you go look at the job and it turns out to be a decent job (a patio under a deck thats approx 350sf, a serpitine walkway with 10' circle kit in the center of the walk for a table and a 6' wide set of 24" tall steps).
Well you continue to talk to the lady and you inform her that the job will possibly costs somewhere around X amount of dollars, and she seems to be ok with the price. Well you continue talking and she tells you that another company (your competition) will be coming in May to re sod her lawn. The company she mentions is a great company that does good work and you are friends with the owners of this company. (She wasnt aware that the company did HardScapes)
What do you do?
I told the lady that I would love to do the job (as I really wanted it) but that it would only make sense to me for her to contact the other company first. Sense they will already be in there and it would only seem practical.
At the time I thought I was doing the right thing, but know I kinda am thinking differently.
I called the other company and give the lead to them already, they were greatly appreciative of my actions.
So What would you have done? Did I do the right thing?
Well you continue to talk to the lady and you inform her that the job will possibly costs somewhere around X amount of dollars, and she seems to be ok with the price. Well you continue talking and she tells you that another company (your competition) will be coming in May to re sod her lawn. The company she mentions is a great company that does good work and you are friends with the owners of this company. (She wasnt aware that the company did HardScapes)
What do you do?
I told the lady that I would love to do the job (as I really wanted it) but that it would only make sense to me for her to contact the other company first. Sense they will already be in there and it would only seem practical.
At the time I thought I was doing the right thing, but know I kinda am thinking differently.
I called the other company and give the lead to them already, they were greatly appreciative of my actions.
So What would you have done? Did I do the right thing?