Tag: Comparing quotes

Say two quotes arrive for the same suburban lawn. One is $100 a visit and says green waste included. The other is $85 a visit and says green waste extra. Fifteen dollars separates them on the page, which reads as $390 across a year of 26 fortnightly visits. The gap does not stay that size. […]

Picture a clinic on a suburban shopping strip, wedged between a bakery and a real estate agent. The window carries a name, the opening hours and a phone number, and very little else. No prices, no photos, no product names. Modesty has nothing to do with it: Australia’s advertising rules for prescription-only medicines keep that […]

The quotes are stuck to the fridge in a 1970s brick house in Wollongong, three sheets under three magnets, curling a little at the corners from a week of being taken down, read over breakfast and put back. The kitchen they describe is the one the fridge stands in: a galley with a window over […]

You’ve had two installers out to measure the lounge and the hallway. You’ve chosen the boards, the same colour and the same range from the same brand, and both quotes have come back. And somehow they’re thousands of dollars apart. If your first thought is that one of them must be trying it on, that’s […]

Three quotes, one window You asked three businesses to quote plantation shutters for the same bedroom window, and the three numbers do not line up. One quote is a single line with a total at the bottom. One runs to a page and a half. The third came by email the night after the measure-up […]