when pricing products/services do you prefer all inclusive pricing or base

Yes I am licensed.

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they are more expensive units even with dealer pricing but their warranty is superior at 7 years.

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you should decide what your market is, and where the volume should be. If it’s slapping a 22kw at every house in a DSLD subdivision, consider that 7 years is far beyond the avg homeowner stay in those houses. In other words, the warranty is likely to be someone else’s problem. Also the air cooled units are pretty simple, and they generally don’t get a lot of hours. Yes they can break down but regular service would be more valuable than a long warranty, to me anyway.

Consider pricing in a service agreement (2x a year?) and sell the unit that people want to buy. That unit is a 22kw generac

just throwing stuff at you to consider. The electrician I used has a warehouse full of 22kw units and shelves of full of parts. That’s what you are competing with

Personally, I want to know what I am all in for when I look on a website. I hate being nickle and dimes for extras. That said, I anticipate these fees and always ask the questions.

So do you advertise with the low price and an asterisk, or advertise all in pricing before you have a chance to see the home setup?

Dunno. I'm leaning towards advertising the low price to get the consumer interested. Most of advertising is getting that first call.

Are you in Houma? I heard Lafourche requires an extra emergency stop on the transfer switch box.

My house was built in 2023 but Ascension parish was still on 2020 NEC. I had to seperate grounds and neutrals in my main and add surge protection.

The only thing that caught me off guard was only my hallways had the combination smoke/co detectors. I didn’t realize my bedrooms were all smoke only and so I had to spend 280 on 4 detectors.

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when pricing products/services do you prefer all inclusive pricing or base

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No surprises for me. I like turn-key pricing. If there are options, quote multiple different packages.

I am always pleasantly suprised when I have a large job done and they don’t try to upsell me halfway through the project.

Once you make your mind to spend the money on a high-dollar project, you don’t want to have to worry about dollars any more.

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we live about a half mile from a substation and through all the big storms we have had in this house so far, zero power outages

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Well, if you have lived in the house for 4 years and haven’t had a power outage, I think that’s plenty of justification for not installing a generator.!

I ended up spending about 8k all in. I was going to do a portable generator and build a pad and get an enclosed and hard pipe it to the gas line and keep it plugged it, and the expenses just all added up.

The issue is for someone who can’t do anything themselves the 8k doesn’t account for my labor to do the foundation and run the gas piping and markup. I had to seperate the grounds and neutrals in my panel, add a surge protector and replace 4 smoke detectors. Make drawings and apply for the permits .

I did think of one workaround for a person who wants it cheaper and that would be to bypass the automatic transfer switch and use an interlock with a 70 amp breaker. The downside is you’d have to set the generator to manual operation and manually throw the interlock and manually press the start button. Also you’d have to manually run the generator every so often for the alternator to charge the battery. This set up would save at least 3k and it wouldn’t require a permit.