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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  • mspencerl87@alien.topB
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    11 months ago

    Residential is usually more expensive than business and usually companies won’t do residential if they’re big.

    It’s been a few years since I got quotes, but generally it was $250 per run and those runs would be run to their max length with slack if needed. Or at least that’s what I requested 90 m for every run spool it up in the ceiling.

    It can take a lot of work to run cable and residential because of things like fire blocks and other unforeseen circumstances.

    But this seems very high to me.

    Tip: if you ever pay someone to run ethernet and you need a single drop pay for two.