#3082740 - 03/20/12 07:01 AM
Re: I'm finally learning! (Price structure)
[Re: Budfish]
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Registered: 01/29/09
Loc: kent county, MI
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I always put a time limit. You never know when the offending animal decides to play in traffic. If I go over the time limit. I can extend it at no charge at my disgression. I am fair with the customer but a time limit keeps me in control.
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#3082857 - 03/20/12 09:04 AM
Re: I'm finally learning! (Price structure)
[Re: Peskycritter]
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trapper
Registered: 07/31/07
Loc: Wisconsin
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The money is in doing the exclusion work X2
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#3082909 - 03/20/12 10:06 AM
Re: I'm finally learning! (Price structure)
[Re: Budfish]
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"Skunk Wrangler"
Registered: 12/26/06
Loc: West, Mi
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sometimes i deal with quill-pigs and they are such random travelers. it might take 2 weeks for the rodent to come back to a house and start chewing on a different side of it. when i trap these.. its a waiting game for them. ive waited 2 weeks for the big pigs to come back.. i funnel them into traps around these big houses. exclusion would be a very tough choice on some of these large cottages. so i always charge a daily visit and keep the customer informed on what its costing. and that it might take some time to finally catch this beast. but i always do!
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#3082910 - 03/20/12 10:07 AM
Re: I'm finally learning! (Price structure)
[Re: Peskycritter]
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"Skunk Wrangler"
Registered: 12/26/06
Loc: West, Mi
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The money is in doing the exclusion work , anybody can buy a cage trap and trap out the animals with it , try to offer something they can't do you them self. If yur just trapping every single stray animal in the neighbor hood your helping other people for free . I trap the min of animals i need to solve the problem then fix the house so animal can't return . The customers then tell there friends how there problem has finally been solved . I can't see any full time company surviving these hard times without doing exclusions , about every body has a neighbor with a trap very few of them know what to do once they get a skunk in a trap. thats when they call me to pick it up and pay me for it.
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#3082918 - 03/20/12 10:14 AM
Re: I'm finally learning! (Price structure)
[Re: wiggler]
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trapper
Registered: 02/13/12
Loc: south east michigan
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sometimes i deal with quill-pigs and they are such random travelers. it might take 2 weeks for the rodent to come back to a house and start chewing on a different side of it. when i trap these.. its a waiting game for them. ive waited 2 weeks for the big pigs to come back.. i funnel them into traps around these big houses. exclusion would be a very tough choice on some of these large cottages. so i always charge a daily visit and keep the customer informed on what its costing. and that it might take some time to finally catch this beast. but i always do! How come they don't live in southern mi
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#3082930 - 03/20/12 10:27 AM
Re: I'm finally learning! (Price structure)
[Re: Budfish]
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trapper
Registered: 11/10/09
Loc: NH
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The money is in doing the exclusion work... While there certainly is plenty of money in exclusion and repair there is still plenty of money in trapping. Ask any mole or beaver trapper.  Heck, I make pretty good money on trapping skunks. very few of them know what to do once they get a skunk in a trap. Ain't that the truth.
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#3083123 - 03/20/12 12:19 PM
Re: I'm finally learning! (Price structure)
[Re: Budfish]
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trapper
Registered: 07/23/08
Loc: mequon, wisconsin
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While it's true that the money is in the exclusions, the fun is in the wildlife. I am all about fun! Take yesterday for example. A big Canadian gander fluffed up his wings and made a running start AT ME. I then commenced to fluff up my scrawny little wings and ran at him. I'll bet he's still telling his goose buddies about this lunatic that almost ran him over.
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#3083856 - 03/20/12 08:13 PM
Re: I'm finally learning! (Price structure)
[Re: Budfish]
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trapper
Registered: 07/31/07
Loc: Wisconsin
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A thoughtful review of my own pricing structure brought to light a possable unfairness to my customers so I have now decided to change things up yet again.
I was charging:
$125 service call
$125 set up and 5 days trapping
$50 per animal.
With all the talk about per animal charges, I had overlooked the fact that it was unfair to put a time limit on catching the offending critter. If I did not perform, the customer would be stuck paying more for my failure. The per animal pricing, I feel, is not really a problem as I do not want to get stuck burning fuel on daily trap checks forever without some type of compensation for it. Also considering higher overhead, I have come up with the following that I now feel is fair to the customer as well as myself. This way, if I don't perform, it's my problem, not theirs.
$100 service call
$300 set up and trapping as long as needed or until customer says stop
$60 per animal (edited my post) I'm totally lost here...so if you still dont perform it costs them $150 more?
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#3084216 - 03/20/12 10:45 PM
Re: I'm finally learning! (Price structure)
[Re: wiggler]
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trapper
Registered: 02/13/12
Loc: south east michigan
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sometimes i deal with quill-pigs and they are such random travelers. it might take 2 weeks for the rodent to come back to a house and start chewing on a different side of it. when i trap these.. its a waiting game for them. ive waited 2 weeks for the big pigs to come back.. i funnel them into traps around these big houses. exclusion would be a very tough choice on some of these large cottages. so i always charge a daily visit and keep the customer informed on what its costing. and that it might take some time to finally catch this beast. but i always do! I catch a lot of them in my kill boxes up around you when I'm long lining coon , it was wierd last year on the south side of the big river I caught very few coon , I was setting up in the oak stands .now on the north side of the big river trapping the oak stands I had a great catch on every check . It was like something came along and killed all the coons and stopped at the river
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#3084299 - 03/21/12 12:24 AM
Re: I'm finally learning! (Price structure)
[Re: Blackdog]
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trapper
Registered: 09/05/10
Loc: Des Allemands, Louisiana
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A thoughtful review of my own pricing structure brought to light a possable unfairness to my customers so I have now decided to change things up yet again.
I was charging:
$125 service call
$125 set up and 5 days trapping
$50 per animal.
With all the talk about per animal charges, I had overlooked the fact that it was unfair to put a time limit on catching the offending critter. If I did not perform, the customer would be stuck paying more for my failure. The per animal pricing, I feel, is not really a problem as I do not want to get stuck burning fuel on daily trap checks forever without some type of compensation for it. Also considering higher overhead, I have come up with the following that I now feel is fair to the customer as well as myself. This way, if I don't perform, it's my problem, not theirs.
$100 service call
$300 set up and trapping as long as needed or until customer says stop
$60 per animal (edited my post) I'm totally lost here...so if you still dont perform it costs them $150 more? That is what I'm trying to take care of. If I make them pay for a week trapping, and I don't get the critter, it would not be fair to the customer to charge another week for my failure the first week. I was thinking about leaving it open ended, but as was pointed out, I may get a customer who tries to make me trap forever. I think that in my agreement I need an ending time, but I want to be fair to my customers also. A bit more thinking is in order here, but I may have a solution in mind.
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