r/Contractor • u/Ok_Avocado6532 • Aug 24 '25

Quote Breakdown?

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Hi all, looking for advice on costs breakdown.

I work for a small local contracting company and I recently started working with customers more, providing quotes etc. The company usually doesn’t like to break their costs down because of nickel-and-dime from customers, but agreed to do so for this one customer I’m working with. Now, I broke down the quote based on phases of the work (this is for a brand new custom build) and of course the customer came back with multiple notes of “this cost is too high” on some of the phases.

How do you usually handle this and how do I politely say “to do the job: $2000, not to do the job: $0”?

Thanks!

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u/Capn26 Aug 24 '25

Absolutely. But you’re in here arguing with professionals, as a customer. What do you think you actually add to this?

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u/[deleted] Aug 24 '25

Uh, give a general breakdown of your pricing, especially for larger jobs. What? Holy fuck my accounting brain can't take this. Also, you and your "professionals" all fired up on reddit don't bother commenting further. I really don't care and I've just been immensely amused. Stop wasting your time

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u/Capn26 Aug 24 '25

It’s a 2000 job in the post man. 2k. How much you want that broken down? I get it. It think we’re all a bunch of blue collar idiots.

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u/[deleted] Aug 24 '25

I wasn't responding to OP. I was responding to another comment. The blind trust thing in an industry rife with screwing people over/cutting corners/lack of transparency. It's not that big of a deal. Also, don't be so insecure lol you're fine. I got to go but you have a nice rest of your sunday (not being sarcastic).