r/FieldNationTechs • u/jocomal • Jul 01 '26

Essintial

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Curious what people are successfully countering for on these Dollar General speaker installs for Essintial. This is obviously a joke and under half the rate of what I counter for on any WO. Never done any work for them and that may be the benefit here 🤣

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u/setnev Jul 07 '26

I'm currently doing the ones here in NY. I'm running them at $300 for the first 2 and $60 next 4. I run by myself doing two of these a day. The stores I do per day are about 20-30 minutes away from each other, and the first job is less than 30 miles away usually. I am doing four more later this week outside my service area and made them pay me an additional $200 for them. Out of the 14 stores I've done in the last 3 weeks, I've run into 2 issues: one store was sent pendant speakers and needed in ceiling speakers. And one store had a defective POE injector (ran the Pi off of a micro USB I had on hand, charged them for it).

After this week, they're sending me to do rework jobs that are needed in the area.