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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  • zhenya00@alien.topB
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    11 months ago

    The price for one drop could very easily have been half of what you paid. Most of the work is taking the job, getting to the site, understanding what needs to be done at this particular location and getting started. Once you’re there and working, adding a few more drops is comparatively little additional effort.

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      11 months ago

      Well, there is a large hank of phone, Ethernet, and CCTV cable that goes from my cable splitter/punchdowns/Ethernet blocks across the cellar ceiling and up into a hole that goes straight up to my attic then drop down into the three second floor bedrooms and one into my first floor living room.

      I ran three more sets across to the other side of the cellar - one out to the back porch, one up into the dining room, one to the cellar wall under the dining room.

      So on total they ran four runs and setup the phone and Ethernet panels. I ran three runs.