Brisbane Conceters - a Rant

You should try being a tradie and dealing with people like you both. Theres a reason some trades wont bother getting back to you, that

You realise the OP started a thread called "a rant", but you think im the one ranting because I have a different opinion?

You are all fu@#ing worthless pieces of sh!t. I wouldn't bother turning up or getting back to you either. Huddle together and have a big circle jerk on the bandwagon, just make sure you all agree and rant together.

And that response sums up the attitude I am talking about to a tee. Yes, when you do set up yourself as a business, touting for customers via advertising, and inviting people to contact you, manners would dictate a response of some sort is an obligation. It certainly used to be decades ago, but as we see now, manners are a thing of the past, and your attitude certainly confirms it.


Quoting is not free time, its part of your total time spent earning a crust, and you build it into your hourly rate, so lets cut the crap, shall we? And if your quote was reasonbale, and you treated people with courtesy, you'd get the job nearly all of the time, so you wouldnt be giving out "free" time as you call it.

The fact that you think a customer has an obligation to thank you for quoting, ie doing what is just part of your own job to generate work for yourself, is astounding. You only want to hear from them if you get the job anyway. Do you really think we believe you want all your quotees ringing you up thanking you for quoting? lol get real, its the last thing you'd want! Its not like you are waiting around to hear either, is it? Quite different to a customer who might actually have a problem impacting on his life and a yes or a no from someone may have a significant outcome on that.


Entertaining? Is that how you see it? Customers just have questions, thats what it is.

Furthermore, you'e lost context of this thread. The OP is not pedantic, he booked in two concretors for a simple footpath job, so he's obviously serious. Read his OP again, the tradies concerned were unprofessional. your argument holds no water.


Whilst I understand there are some types of idiot enquiries that justify what you say, you know as well as I do most people are honest paying customers who just want work done. Yes as you say, tradies just arent interested because they are too busy which is exactly what I said in my first post, so thank you for agreeing . The organised tradies, with good work ethics, are never short of work even during recessions. Thats because they dont have the attitude you espouse. thats because they get work from word of mouth. A55holes who dont answer calls dont have that clout - nobody says "hire him, he doesnt return calls."