The Three Hour Tour...The Three Hour Tour...
The ships aground on a shore like this uncharted desert isle....
O.K., All right,..
but you didn't have to listen to this guy's 3 hour tour-I mean spiel.
So the estimate we rec'd from this salesman on siding (vinyl siding mind you), shouldn't have taken more than an hour. From the time he got here to the time he left;THREE hours!
He measured, went back & measured again & again. We finally sat down for hard $#'s and got a whole spiel on the company, how long they've been in business, how no one can compare to them, etc., etc.. Not a problem, it was worth it, for a mere $98,000.00 ; they will install our vinyl siding (it was extra because I chose a premium color) & install all our gutters & down spouts providing us with a seamless house! As an added bonus....the siding is guaranteed not to fade!
He then made this big show about calling the company VP since we had a BJ's club membership & they're affiliated with BJ's (don't cha know, although he never asked to see our card),to get us this great pricing & left a message for him to call us back at our home # (he wasn't in the office).If the VP OK's it, we'll only have to pay 66,000.00 with our BJ's discount plus of course an additional 15% for the premium color I chose. We can easily have the job done for 76,000.00! Don't forget now...that did include gutters & the fade free guarantee!
The remainder of the estimates came in between $18,000 & 23,000.
Well Tom finally decided to hire Coop (the original framer) to frame in the chimney & install the fireplace, install 2 windows (that's another whole story...) & install the siding in the house.
As of this evening we're still vacillating back & forth between Hardie board & Vinyl for a siding choice.
By the way-the 3 hour guy couldn't leave us any color samples (he checked to make sure I didn't steal them, women do you know; to use for decorating color matches), nor a brochure (it was his last one & the company really rations them). He was here on the 25th of August & we still haven't heard from this mysterious VP as to whether or not we would receive the discount.
The ships aground on a shore like this uncharted desert isle....
O.K., All right,..
but you didn't have to listen to this guy's 3 hour tour-I mean spiel.
So the estimate we rec'd from this salesman on siding (vinyl siding mind you), shouldn't have taken more than an hour. From the time he got here to the time he left;THREE hours!
He measured, went back & measured again & again. We finally sat down for hard $#'s and got a whole spiel on the company, how long they've been in business, how no one can compare to them, etc., etc.. Not a problem, it was worth it, for a mere $98,000.00 ; they will install our vinyl siding (it was extra because I chose a premium color) & install all our gutters & down spouts providing us with a seamless house! As an added bonus....the siding is guaranteed not to fade!
He then made this big show about calling the company VP since we had a BJ's club membership & they're affiliated with BJ's (don't cha know, although he never asked to see our card),to get us this great pricing & left a message for him to call us back at our home # (he wasn't in the office).If the VP OK's it, we'll only have to pay 66,000.00 with our BJ's discount plus of course an additional 15% for the premium color I chose. We can easily have the job done for 76,000.00! Don't forget now...that did include gutters & the fade free guarantee!
The remainder of the estimates came in between $18,000 & 23,000.
Well Tom finally decided to hire Coop (the original framer) to frame in the chimney & install the fireplace, install 2 windows (that's another whole story...) & install the siding in the house.
As of this evening we're still vacillating back & forth between Hardie board & Vinyl for a siding choice.
By the way-the 3 hour guy couldn't leave us any color samples (he checked to make sure I didn't steal them, women do you know; to use for decorating color matches), nor a brochure (it was his last one & the company really rations them). He was here on the 25th of August & we still haven't heard from this mysterious VP as to whether or not we would receive the discount.
1 comment:
does he know that most people's houses don't cost that much??? Who is this guy and where did he come from??? I think he should be reported to the better business bearu!
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