Predatory pricing is the business model
Predatory pricing is the business model.
Here is how it works:
- You call, they say '€39 visit fee', additional costs would be told to you by the electrician when they visit.
- Electrician arrives, now the fees are becoming visible:
- €222 plus BTW for the first 30m
- €150 plus BTW for the time after that
- €225 plus BTW per hour worked
- Plus excessive charges for any material (in my case €365 for materials worth €60).
- Plus montage costs!
They triple charge the work, they quote without BTW, they treat travel time as work time, they balloon the materials costs.
Long story short, a bill of €400 (excessive) became €1.500, for less than 30m worked + 25m travel time to their garage to get the material they needed.
Then you are supposed to haggle with them to get items down, which is part of the business model as well.
After three calls I got '50% off' from the original bill, and still paid way too much as the material costs were 6X ballooned.
At least the work was good and the employees capable, but what a business. Beware!








