Re: help loading Ubuntu

2010-03-24 Thread David Fawcett
Hahaha! All Daves. What a stereotype eh?

I felt exactly the same way about it which is why I didn't post publicly.

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.

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.

Anyway, good luck to you.

Dave.

On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 1:45 AM, Dave Hall  wrote:

> On Thu, 2010-03-25 at 01:11 +1100, David Fawcett wrote:
> > I just responded to David off list
>
> I did too.
>
> >  but out of curiosity for the future is it OK for IT companies to
> > reply on this list with their rates and services?
>
> I have no issue with people doing it, so long as it is in directly
> response to a post from a user.
>
> I personally don't do it as you can end up with people continuing the
> conversation on the list.  I also have little interest in races to the
> bottom on pricing.  Even though I know I'm not cheap I believe my rates
> represent good value for my clients.  Also 1:1 email provides more
> opportunities for going into detail from the first response.
>
> Cheers
>
> Dave
>
> >
> > On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 4:59 PM, david egan  wrote:
> > hi Melissa,
> > Is there any1 that can help me load Ubuntu onto my computer in
> > Melbourne ...n not 2 expensive?
> > regards
> >
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Re: help loading Ubuntu

2010-03-24 Thread Dave Hall
On Thu, 2010-03-25 at 01:11 +1100, David Fawcett wrote:
> I just responded to David off list

I did too.

>  but out of curiosity for the future is it OK for IT companies to
> reply on this list with their rates and services?

I have no issue with people doing it, so long as it is in directly
response to a post from a user.  

I personally don't do it as you can end up with people continuing the
conversation on the list.  I also have little interest in races to the
bottom on pricing.  Even though I know I'm not cheap I believe my rates
represent good value for my clients.  Also 1:1 email provides more
opportunities for going into detail from the first response.

Cheers

Dave

> 
> On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 4:59 PM, david egan  wrote:
> hi Melissa,
> Is there any1 that can help me load Ubuntu onto my computer in
> Melbourne ...n not 2 expensive?
> regards
> 
> -- 
> David
> 
> 
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> ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com
> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
> 
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Re: help loading Ubuntu

2010-03-24 Thread David Fawcett
I just responded to David off list but out of curiosity for the future is it
OK for IT companies to reply on this list with their rates and services?

On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 4:59 PM, david egan  wrote:

> hi Melissa,
> Is there any1 that can help me load Ubuntu onto my computer in Melbourne
> ...n not 2 expensive?
> regards
>
> --
> David
>
> --
> ubuntu-au mailing list
> ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com
> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
>
>
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re: help loading Ubuntu

2010-03-23 Thread david egan
hi Melissa,
Is there any1 that can help me load Ubuntu onto my computer in Melbourne
...n not 2 expensive?
regards

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