{"id":650,"date":"2016-08-25T10:21:05","date_gmt":"2016-08-25T14:21:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rakkar.org\/blog\/?p=650"},"modified":"2016-08-25T10:21:05","modified_gmt":"2016-08-25T14:21:05","slug":"vastly-different-contractor-pricing-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rakkar.org\/blog\/index.php\/2016\/08\/25\/vastly-different-contractor-pricing-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Vastly different contractor pricing again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tI have to replace a 32 3\/8 x 54 5\/8 x 3\/8 pane of tempered glass in my shower. The Glass Guru quoted me $467.08. The Glass Doctor quoted $800 even.<\/p>\n<p>As I wrote about\u00a0in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rakkar.org\/blog\/?p=619\">http:\/\/www.rakkar.org\/blog\/?p=619<\/a> I&#8217;m really surprised at the range of prices when getting quotes. You&#8217;d think that since material and labor costs are similar, prices would be comparable between competing companies. With car\u00a0shopping you don&#8217;t see one dealership sell a car for $46,700 and another dealership across the street sell that same car for $80,000 but that is essentially what is happening here.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have to replace a 32 3\/8 x 54 5\/8 x 3\/8 pane of tempered glass in my shower. The Glass Guru quoted me $467.08. The Glass Doctor quoted $800 even. As I wrote about\u00a0in http:\/\/www.rakkar.org\/blog\/?p=619 I&#8217;m really surprised at the range of prices when getting quotes. You&#8217;d think that since material and labor costs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakkar.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakkar.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakkar.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakkar.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakkar.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rakkar.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakkar.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakkar.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakkar.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}