Just give an estimate to do the installation.
As for delivery, Lowes and Home Depot here do delivery. But either way, if someone wanted to buy materials, I'd have no trouble installing them as long as its as good as something that I would have bought.
On the other hand, if the product was something that needed to be hand-selected for defects, a disclaimer would be in order.
This kind of scenerio though, seems like a no-win game for a homeowner, if the final cost of the installation is what it all boils down to.
Personally, I think that companies that do a project and make their money through markup are on a path that is not essential. Its just as easy to make the money on the labor and profit side of the estimate.
I like not keeping a tally of markup, because then I can honestly tell folks the plants and materials are not markied up. And they like hearing it. Even though it goes over the head of half of them anyway. Anyone with a business mind, though, knows that the bottom line total is all that matters.
As for delivery, Lowes and Home Depot here do delivery. But either way, if someone wanted to buy materials, I'd have no trouble installing them as long as its as good as something that I would have bought.
On the other hand, if the product was something that needed to be hand-selected for defects, a disclaimer would be in order.
This kind of scenerio though, seems like a no-win game for a homeowner, if the final cost of the installation is what it all boils down to.
Personally, I think that companies that do a project and make their money through markup are on a path that is not essential. Its just as easy to make the money on the labor and profit side of the estimate.
I like not keeping a tally of markup, because then I can honestly tell folks the plants and materials are not markied up. And they like hearing it. Even though it goes over the head of half of them anyway. Anyone with a business mind, though, knows that the bottom line total is all that matters.
