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>You make the choice. My choice is to live with a concrete floor and tell the world (one forum at a time) that $1000/day for a tradie is…

>You also seem to undervalue the experience of a trade and are comparing it to mowing lawn I don't think a tradie is worth $1000/day. No…

>When you subtract their overheads I don't know what you're estimating as their overheads, but it's not 30-50%. >There was a nurse on here…

> $1k per day is pretty much the going rate for most people that aren't tradies. Exactly - so how did we finish up in a society where these…

>Ah, you are trying to get this tiling job done in America? In America I could hire a couple of Mexicans and be done in under $500. None of…

>Strange that my autocorrect doesn't use the z version No it's not that strange. For reasons I wont go into I haven't updated my dictionary…

>A six month project plan? Any quote that doesn't imply a rate of $1000-1500/day for their labour.

>roll the dice and get an unknown off airtasker Lol - you think there's a difference with an unknown off airtasker and somewhere else?

>Maybe the quotes you are getting are from top quality contractors Unfortunately I have no was to assess their quality. They all have a…

>just for labour they're asking price is $600-$800 ... A flat day labour rate for them is $600-$700. Our concrete finishers charge $650 +…

@CurlCurl What's your point? Medical indemnity insurance isn't a significant cost of business for doctors either (in proportion to their…

>If they're all quoting They're not _all_ quoting. Most of them are disappearing after inspecting the job. >doesn't that say their rates…

>Sounds like they are quoting based on how difficult the customer Nah - I just venting here. Most of them just ghost me after seeing some…

>Tiling is not too hard if you watch a few youtube vids Trust me - I've seen hours of them. Heck, I know more about tiling glues, levelling…

>I don't see how this is possible for a tradie running proper books, insurance, etc Hop on airtasker - plenty of licensed sparkies ready to…

Do you want to DM me his number? jk - it looks like you're in brisbane. >I think it was about $300. Heck at those rates, I could pay him to…

>The quote might be high if they have spent a bit of time already quoting A few guys came to inspect the job. Most just plucked a figure…

>I know tilers, concreters, brickies and painters are looked down upon by the upper echelon of trades like sparkies or chippies Not sure…

Surely my 10sqm 2 day job is better than a kitchen splashback? Could they really be doing 3 splashbacks/day and making 3k/day?

I have a small floor tiling project - 10sqm. I'm struggling to find a tiler (at a reasonable price) for the work in Sydney. Are tilers…

nah - doesn't work for me

I keep getting a message "Your account has been deactivated" when I make a new account. Anyone know how to get around it?

Whoa - 1200 attempts. How'd you do it?

>I read it on whirlpool somewhere last year Can you post a link, if you can find it? >Did you call JB and ask for your case? Not yet ...…

>@TomGum But I know JB hifi did audits last year where people were able to cancel without any ETCs How do you know about the audits?

>I think you are banned for life. Perhaps - I'm surprised there aren't other reports of it here. >But you're better off asking them. Yeah -…

Yes - that's right ... but any idea about how to get my account unlocked, so I can buy this deal?

I went to sign up for this deal, went through the sign up process ... signed the contract and every thing. Number was successfully ported…

no

>i think they see it as soon as i do the authentication via sms. Yes, my point was to ask if they can do it before the SMS authentication.…