Ho Jay, I’d be extremely careful.
First with your pricing, don’t forgive some of your legitimate costs. Add Shipping & Handling and taxes to all equipment purchases. Carefully estimate your labor costs, travel to Mexico, shipping across the border to Mexico. Are there any import costs? What will be other “costs of doing business”? Second, you know what it costs to run your business. Add the appropriate overhead and general and administrative costs. Office staff and your salary; insurance; and other indirect costs. You might tell them what your indirect cost schedule is (e.g. 15% on PV panels, inverters, batteries and any other hardware; 10% on wages and other fees), and if they don’t agree, decline to do business with them. Third, I’d set up a progress payment schedule. Arrange for payment in in $US bank draft (be careful of bogus bank drafts) or other form of payment you are confortable with. Fourth, does your existing insurance policies cover equipment and auto theft (in Mexico)? Get a rider if it doesn’t. Fifth, don’t provide them with any design information prior to signing a contract. Peter T. Parrish SolarGnosis 1107 Fair Oaks Ave. Ste. 351 South Pasadena, CA 91030 (323) 839-6108 peter.parr...@solargnosis.com From: jay Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2018 11:44 AM To: RE-wrenches Subject: [RE-wrenches] has anyone ever had this happen? HI All, I’ve had a large company want to do a project and they want me to invoice it as follows. They said it had to do with knowing the cost of the system, but that doesn’t seem right to me. Now I don’t want to get screwed here, and it sure seems that could happen. I’m pretty sure I know what you all will say, but I feel like I needed to get a bit of a reality check. As I mostly do projects on a handshake, dealing with large companies isn’t too common for me. 1. give them wholesale pricing ( line item by item) 2. add margin, but small one is all they’ll accept Project is an off grid, no permits, in Mexico, remote site and pretty big: 16kw inverter, 9kw PV, etc. Thanks jay peltz power _______________________________________________ List sponsored by Redwood Alliance List Address: RE-wrenches@lists.re-wrenches.org Change listserver email address & settings: http://lists.re-wrenches.org/options.cgi/re-wrenches-re-wrenches.org List-Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/re-wrenches@lists.re-wrenches.org/maillist.html List rules & etiquette: www.re-wrenches.org/etiquette.htm Check out or update participant bios: www.members.re-wrenches.org
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