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Did my Mother overpay for a simple ethernet job? (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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My Mother hired a licensed electrician to install 1 ethernet drop in her home office. She already had a preexisting tp-link setup in the basement. She showed me the invoice today which totaled $958.00! I'm shocked and disgusted. Feels like they took advantage of my Mother.

I told my Mother to call them first thing tomorrow morning to see if they possibly made a mistake. If not, I advised her to never do business with that company again. This seems like highway robbery. Is there anything else she can do?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (12 children)

That’s insanely overpriced. But I think the first mistake is getting an electrician instead of a low voltage tech.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (8 children)

Everyone in this group says this, but I live in a small to medium city (metropolitan area population just over a million) and I could not find a “low voltage electrician” anywhere. Called tons of people. Closest I could find (who wasn’t just a normal electrician) was a computer repair guy who said “I suppose I could do some runs but I’m not a network guy” and a high end home theater shop that point blank told me it wasn’t worth their time unless I bought a multi thousand dollar home automation system from them.

So how exactly do I find a low voltage tech? Cause Google didn’t work. I suppose there must be a bunch of people who work the commercial side but it was near impossible to find anyone who did residential.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Low voltage contractors are probably there, they are probably security or fire alarm guys who would be able to point you in the right direction most likely if they them self would not do it. The company I work for wouldnt have done a job like that unless it was a favor as we do large jobs but even if my boss was willing to do that for a premium price it wouldnt have been that much unless it was like a 2-3 hour drive each way.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Thanks, the structured cabling keyword search does have a lot more hits.

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