Hahaha! All Daves. What a stereotype eh?<div><br></div><div>I felt exactly the same way about it which is why I didn't post publicly.</div><div><br></div><div>I couldn't agree more that good techs shouldn't work cheap and I don't lower my prices because my competitors may be cheaper.</div> <div><br></div><div>I'd imagine you find many of the same situations that I do, client initially goes with someone cheap, they ends up getting charged them more than they expected because it takes longer and the cheap tech either doesn't fix the problem or causes more problems than they fix. Then they come to someone like us. It may sound good because I almost always keep clients like that (and this business is all about repeat business) but it still drives me nuts how many cowboys there are out there.</div> <div><br></div><div>Anyway, good luck to you.</div><div><br></div><div>Dave.</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 1:45 AM, Dave Hall <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dave.hall@skwashd.com">dave.hall@skwashd.com</a>></span> wrote:<br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="im">On Thu, 2010-03-25 at 01:11 +1100, David Fawcett wrote:<br> > I just responded to David off list<br> <br> </div>I did too.<br> <div class="im"><br> > but out of curiosity for the future is it OK for IT companies to<br> > reply on this list with their rates and services?<br> <br> </div>I have no issue with people doing it, so long as it is in directly<br> response to a post from a user.<br> <br> I personally don't do it as you can end up with people continuing the<br> conversation on the list. I also have little interest in races to the<br> bottom on pricing. Even though I know I'm not cheap I believe my rates<br> represent good value for my clients. Also 1:1 email provides more<br> opportunities for going into detail from the first response.<br> <br> Cheers<br> <font color="#888888"><br> Dave<br> </font><div><div></div><div class="h5"><br> ><br> > On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 4:59 PM, david egan <<a href="mailto:egandav@gmail.com">egandav@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br> > hi Melissa,<br> > Is there any1 that can help me load Ubuntu onto my computer in<br> > Melbourne ...n not 2 expensive?<br> > regards<br> ><br> > --<br> > David<br> ><br> ><br> > --<br> > ubuntu-au mailing list<br> > <a href="mailto:ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com</a><br> > <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au</a><br> ><br> ><br> <br> <br> <br> </div></div></blockquote></div><br></div>