I called american irrigation systes and asked them their prices. They told me that it was $75 per hour for the service call and they charged by the quarter hour after that. I told them the size of my yard and how many zones. I told them all of the sprinkler heads needed to be raised. I asked for a ballpark estimate to know whether I could afford to have the system serviced and they said they couldn't do that. I said they should be able to give me some kind of idea and they said their techinician needed to come out and look to give me a price. When the technician arrived 5 hours after the agreed upon time he took five minutes and looked at my yard and said it would cost between $500 and $700. When I told him if I had known that I wouldn't have asked him to come out at all he went back to the original line of you agreed to our prices before we came out. I was very much disappointed that they couldnt even give a ballpark of what I could expect to pay without actually looking at it. I feel it was unfair for them not to be more forthcoming with what the cost was likely to be and not wasted their time and my money.
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