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Looking at a 1980s drywall price sheet from a yard in Tacoma
A single 4x8 sheet of half-inch was under three bucks back then. How do you even price a job to compete with that kind of inflation history?
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margaretf4018d ago
Ghost prices from forty years ago" is everywhere, not just drywall. It's why my dad still thinks a movie ticket should cost five bucks and gets mad every time we go. That old number just gets stuck in your head for good.
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jackson.sarah18d ago
How do you even explain that to a customer now? I mean, you'd have to show them a chart or something and they still wouldn't believe you. Makes me feel old just looking at it, and I wasn't even buying drywall back then. Trying to compete with ghost prices from forty years ago is a losing game. Maybe we should all just start quoting in 1980s dollars and see how that goes over.
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