Had my 800ft driveway plowed. Took them 5 minutes. Charged me $1000.

You can pay him when the governments $1000 hits your Trump account.

Holy Cow!!!

If my math is correct, that's $12,000 an hour. Go buy that Polaris Ranger and you make your money back in 3 hours, and then go plow driveways in your neighborhood until winter is done.

He's never had a callous on his hands...he's a limp wristed leftist.

You hired them to clear your driveway. They cleared your driveway.

Now you're complaining that they did the job you asked them to do too quickly and efficiently? The response you should've given was, "Thank you"

Actually paying someone twice a year $1000 is much cheaper than a $35,000 vehicle which needs maintenance and a place to park.

He could park it in the 800 foot driveway. If he only used it for plowing and drove it the bare minimum to keep it in good condition otherwise, he'd come out ahead eventually - in a couple decades or a little longer (accounting for maintenance).

Where do you live? If you live in the area of the most recent blizzard, I am certain there is an upcharge for that. Did you agree on pricing beforehand? Was this a planned service, or a frantic call the day of? Have you utilized this service before, or are you a first time client? I agree that 1k is way too much, but often times these snow plow businesses are planned starting in the summer-early fall. So if you are a first time client, calling in the aftermath of the blizzard……I am not surprised by the quote. I think the lesson is that you should have agreed on the price before hand, because they would have come to your property, evaluated the cost, and then provided you with a quote. However, if you got cousin bubba with a snow plow attachment he got at the scrapyard, this is completely on you.

-Bumdog

Park your cars at the end of the driveway before the storm so that you only have to shovel a path and the end.

That's what I do with big snow storms. Cost $0

Lol always hilarious to hear people think they can simply reverse the credit card charges! The company doest work for you, they work for the merchants. You have to prove fraud to get the charge reversed. Changing your mind is not valid. Hahaha

good luck. ask for an estimate first? doesn't sound like it. how about this, you get your ass there and do it yourself if you don't like it? or, by a $1500 snow blower to save money in the long run. you don't sound too bright. and you come off as lazy.

800 ft and assuming 2 lanes wide, that's 13 times my 60 ft driveway that is wide enough for my 2-car garage. It takes me about 23 minutes to shovel 1.5" off (doing a good job, with snow needing to be lifted/thrown off because the sides are already filled with snow), about 1 to 1.5 hours to shovel 6" off depending on how heavy the snow is. If it's more than that, I fire up my snowblower (I don't mind the exercise if it's below 6"). So even if it's just 6", that could be 20 man-hours of work to clear an 800 ft driveway. You'd better have a dozen kids to do it by shoveling, especially if you got a foot or more of snow.

It sounds like he’s being punished for being efficient in his speed to get the work done. I imagine his equipment cost a lot of money.

You're probably right. A Republican wouldn't have $1000 to pay in the first place... or an 800 ft driveway to their doublewide.

This is really interesting based on what you are not telling us. Did you get an estimate before the work was performed? Do you have any other objection besides the length of time it took relative to the expense? Because it sounds like you got your driveway cleared and now don't want to pay for the work that was performed simply because it was completed so quickly.

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Could’ve done it for free in about 8 hours

Smarter person would not have been caught off guard and been better prepared. Did you pay to have it plowed so you could watch the Orange Skidmark ramble on for 2 hours?

Would you rather them have taken 4 hours and charged the same amount? You’re paying for the work done, not time spent.

A vehicle loses a lot of energy to wind resistance and internal friction at high speeds, but at a low speed and high torque scenario, a vehicle with a plow can convert the energy of burning hydrocarbons into motion to remove snow very effectively.

Keep this in mind. A human can sprint at half of a horsepower of output, maybe 1+ HP very briefly, but by all means, cannot effectively exert that through the wrists and outstretched arms for long with a snow shovel.

A truck can put out 200-500hp at low gear for as long as you need to plow with no dependence on frail wrist and elbow ligaments and rotator cuffs.