[Richard iSparkle]

i see you re point, but i'm not sure i agree.

i don't like undercutting because it's really the worst form of competition.  its competing purely on price, and this drives down prices in an area.  i understand why people are tempted to do it, but i think that it is generally inexperience or unprofessionaliasm that drives it. 

another thing of course is illegal workers competing with professional workers.  so us with overheads such as employees, insurance, VAT, tax etc etc are having prices working by people working for cash, or on benefits.

[G Griffin]

i see you re point, but i'm not sure i agree.

i don't like undercutting because it's really the worst form of competition.  its competing purely on price, and this drives down prices in an area.  i understand why people are tempted to do it, but i think that it is generally inexperience or unprofessionaliasm that drives it. 

another thing of course is illegal workers competing with professional workers.  so us with overheads such as employees, insurance, VAT, tax etc etc are having prices working by people working for cash, or on benefits.

Undercutting doesn`t have to drive down prices. I`m not advocating it but it`s a way of being attractive for some
in a business sense.
I was pointing out the double standards- some will moan about patch workers driving away competition but they don`t like being undercut. They are both anti-competition.

[Richard iSparkle]

fair enough G!

people will complain about a lot of stuff i suppose you're right!  there's not much we can do about what 'other people', better to stick with changing how we run our business.