One thing I have learned, if the customer is unhappy with the price, all the other categories will suffer as well :) Anyone who follows me closely and reads my responses, knows that I almost always blame myself for a less than stellar review. Very seldom will I disagree with my customers, as surely, that is no way to build a successful business. But I must take exception with this customer. We ALWAYS quote a price before we do the work. It is always quite frustrating as a business owner, when we drive out to a customer’s house, quote them a price, have them accept the price, do the work and get paid, only to hear a few days later that they thought it was very expensive... We do not have service charges like every other company, and still offer free estimates. So if you think that our price is high, no problem at all, have a great day sir, and sorry we couldn't service you today! But what makes this particular job frustrating, is the fact of who we are. We stock about $10,000 in parts on our trucks, something that is simply unheard of. There are not many, if any, service trucks that would pull up to this home, with a $55, GENUINE Moen part in stock and on hand. And then proceed to actually charge our COST for that part, which is, $55... Then we have to shut down the water main to the house, drain the pressure off, completely take apart the Moen valve, install the correct parts, put the water back on and verify it's working. As well as giving him another unheard of, two year warranty. We are not afraid of our work :) So we got it all done in an expedient and professional manner, just to have him complain it was too expensive? For $245 with a $55 part? So he thought $195 was very expensive, even though he was quoted that price ahead of time, accepted the price, and even though I called him as I do with all my customers a day or two later, to do a customer satisfaction call and ask if he was 100% happy with the work. Funny thing is, if any other company had driven out there, they would've looked at the problem, shut his water main down, taken the part with them, left the house, been gone for an hour to an hour and a half driving across town to get the part, coming back and then completing the job. They would've turned it into a 2 to 3 hour long circus. And then of course, the customer would have been extremely happy with the price because it took them so long to complete the job. Not to mention all of the companies that don't have properly trained or professional personnel to begin with, who would've told him that the parts are not even available and he would need a whole new faucet or that the parts were $115 :))) So because we did exactly what was expected of us, had the part in stock and on hand, completed the job in an expedient manner, which freed him up to go do whatever else you had to do with his day, we are penalized for this, because we got it done too fast for him. We should get it done very fast for him, because that's what we do, we are professionals. So of course it comes easy to us. Having a service man fumble around with it for an hour SHOULD be scary. This customer never seemed to wonder HOW that part got on the truck to begin with? They never assume that there was much time involved in securing those parts and getting them on the truck. Whether we left his house to go get it, or picked it up at an earlier time, there is still time and expense involved in stocking our trucks. It didn't magically appear there. LOL Keeping our trucks stocked is a major chore I promise you. Once every two weeks, we spend about 45 minutes and go through every single part on the trucks. Then we make a LONG list of what we need, then we have to go to several different places in town to secure all of the many different parts. All told, it takes about a full half a day to fully stock our trucks back up again. All so we can drive up to this customers home and have it on hand for HIM, so that we can give him a more reasonable bill then we had to, to alleviate having him pay us as we went and searched for the part. As I have said, we will never be able to please everybody no matter how hard we try. And this is an example at how we did everything 100% right, but got a less than favorable review because of it :( Deeply saddens me when I don't get a straight A review. And if it's something I failed at, I will be the first to admit it, because I am FAR from being perfect. In this case, I felt we were as close to perfect as possible, and deserved a better review them we got. That's not something you will hear me say often.