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Wow Paul!!!

You are going to be driving a new BMW by the end of that one, in fact, you might be going to Germany to see it made!!

I really don't understand your plant pricing....

To me, for a project this large, I would think you prices are quite high (maybe extremely high for all matter)for the plant material..

Some of my wholesale pricing:

gold flame spirea - 18-24" my wholesale $8.50
your price installed - $30.00

juniper - 5 gal my wholesale (18-24") - 10.75
your price installed - $40.00

river birch - 8' my wholesale price $50.00
(a 8 ' birch is like a 1" cal tree??? twigs!)
your price installed - $350..WOW

perennials - 1 gal no more than $3.00 ea
your price installed - $10.00
(I'd imagine with the quatities, 1 gal perennials could be had for less than 3 ea though, I bet you could strike a deal up for about $2 ea......)

sod my price installed .22 ft
44,000 sq ft = 9680 + grading
(maybe 1 day with a dozer, 2 days power rake for grading???)


Additionally, I believe you are charging additionally for the mulching and topsoil used for planting. So, you are charging the above plant installation as price for only cost and installation, nothing else.

Most guys I know are charging FAR, FAR less for installation, and that price also includes the mulch and topsoil

I can't say there is nothing wrong with the price though.......especially if you get it. I just think that others would come in way lower on the planting prices......but I don't know the market. I just know that at the prices you have, I would be thinking vacation home on a small Island, (including the island)

All I know is I would have trouble holding myself back from jumping up for joy and running frantically around the room while the client signed the contract.

Maybe I'm missing the point though......I honestly, don't understand pricing anymore..........a job this big I can't see getting those numbers for......I have trouble getting numbers like those for 'eenie weenie' jobs in high end areas...........

Also, I truly don't understand what it means to be a huge company like yours.........I can only imagine your overhead. Maybe you have to be this high on pricing to do well......I know that in order to handle a big job like this in a timely manner takes a lot of work.........having the 'speed' to handle work like this is quite costly.


Paul, if you get this job, can I come work for you and help spend some of that money??????

steve