I do not negotiate my prices and I do not explain why the price is what it is. Its not up for discussion. Materials cost what they cost, and my professional work costs money to get it done, if they say they can get it done cheaper then I will politely let them o ow that I understand and thats that. I usually will tell everyone as Im there looking at the job to give them a price that I encourage you to get a couple more estimates, but I do stress to them to be sure tho that they get the same estimates. That is one issue that I have seen people think that they are getting estimates from three different people. For the same work, but one person may be including certain things that the other two are not etc. so just getting multiple estimates is not the stopping point they need to be sure that they are getting the exact same work price on top of that the main reason I do not flinch or budge from my quote is that I know the quality of work that I bring and most of the time the people that are wanting me to give them a price know it as well. So they only use my estimate as a way to just see if they can afford it(entirely as a way to know how much it will cost them not to try and use it to get a cheaper quote from others
