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Originally Posted by sweetbmxrider

Thanks for your input. I figured hibu was a bad choice, my mom found some reviews too that are inline with what you are saying. I'm glad I spoke up before they signed up. Could you clarify your 3rd statement? I would like your contacts for yp, thank you.

I'll PM you the info, it's just the two sales people who I called and came to my office. I'm not sure how much pull they have but they should at least be able to point you in the right direction.

What I meant by my third statement is this:

My company is one of the more expensive in each of our segments because we are one of the few roofing companies actually insured for roofing (ask before you sign, and verify with their insurance company - most are just covered for carpentry because you can cut workers comp rates by 50%. If anything bad happens, they probably won't be covered and guess who has to pay?) in addition to offering fair wages and good benefits to our employees who go far and beyond safety requirements (again, few that we go up against can say this).

We've been around since 1947 and have the honesty and skillset to back up everything we say and propose, but the brief time we advertised in a normal place like Angie's List, or online you're going to get your idiots who base purchases solely on initial price, not the ongoing investment or long term repairs that will be necessary that goes with low bid. So not only did it waste a lot of hours looking at jobs, calculating costs, writing proposals, etc. but those kind of customers will then say "oh they're just expensive" and work to ruin your reputation without cause. Time and time again I see these same people years down the road saying "oh what you said to do didn't work" because the other contractor "fixed the roof" or "put on a new roof", but didn't do what they claimed to. We find that most people who see us from avenues like a YP or Angie's List are similar and aren't very concerned with quality, which is corroborated by companies in other trades that we deal with.*

“It's unwise to pay too much, but it's worse to pay too little. When you pay too much, you lose a little money - that's all. When you pay too little, you sometimes lose everything, because the thing you bought was incapable of doing the thing it was bought to do. The common law of business balance prohibits paying a little and getting a lot - it can't be done" - John Ruskin

*your experience may vary.
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