cost and availability of young men to move stuff, question about gas tank

[colleen]

Well, good news for my friend. I got my jardinero to lower his price to the $100 per hour price and he brought a friend who I will also keep contact info for. Pancho has been working for us for 8-10 yrs and does a great job with anything and is super reliable so this contact will be good all around.

I asked the friend what happened w/ the movers on Thursday. I left at 9PM and they were nearly done. They had tried to up the price that was still due, from $2500 to $2750 so they'd get a little less than $100 each. The company owner said, no, the price was $2500. I asked how much he paid the guys as a tip after their 14 hours together with a return trip still ahead for those poor guys. They are lucky he reduced the price back to what the real price was because he gave each of them $300 pesos. I thought that was very nice and generous and they certainly deserved it. But that was his choice, not imposed so you feel ripped off.

I'm not trying to argue or continue anything except letting you guys know that it worked out very good for the SMA movers and a new good relationship w/ my jardinero, soon to be his jardinero also.