I am not one to write reviews but I felt the need to do so. I recently needed 4 under the cabinet flourescent lights installed. I contacted a few electricians to get a few estimates. One company came out free of charge and gave me an estimate of $208.00 to complete the job, unfortunately they were booked until mid to late April. I then contacted Lowry Electric very professional on the phone was told no free estimate have minimum service charge of $49.95 which is applied to the overall job if I elected to use them. I rolled the dice and scheduled a service appointment with them. (How much different could their estimate be?) The electrican arrived on time and I discussed with him what I needed to have done and then told me he needed a few minutes to review and write up an estimate. A few minutes went by and I was given an estimate of $697.00. My jaw hit the floor. $697.00 to replace 4 18inch flourescent light, 2 of which I had already removed for the electrican. $697.00 verses $208.00. I told the electrican in as nice a manner as I could muster that I just wasted $49.95 to be completely over charged. He then went into is corporate dialogue of how we are insured, blah, blah. I said the bottom dollar is what matters to me. Why would I pay you $697.00 when I can get the job done for $208.00. Granted I had to wait a few weeks but for $500.00 difference I would. The electrican then asked for a few minutes to see if he could do anthing better on his estimate. He then comes back with a $397.00 counter offer. So he went from $697.00 to $397.00 is a span of a few minutes. I said again why would I pay you $200.00 more when I already had been quoted $208.00. I countered with $249.95 since I already had to pay this company $49.95 to do nothing plus the $208.00 it would cost me with the other company. Against my better judgement and because I did not want to wait a few weeks to get the job done I paid $347.04 for Lowry to do the job. $139.00 more after all the negotiations. $347.04 for 4 lights that took the electrian 15 minutes per light. Arrived at 9:00 AM was out the door by $10:30 AM. The long and short is if you want a job done fast and be grossly over charged then Lowry Electric is for you.
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