The $15.50 per foot houston fences

Recently it has become popular in Houston to offer customers the unreal price of $15.50 per linear foot for a 6' cedar fence with 2x6 baseboard, complete with removal and disposal. How can this be? How can any company in their right mind make even a small profit at this price when materials for this type of fence are hovering between $7 and $8 per foot. Add to that the cost of repeated trips to the customer's house for quotes, installation, and check collecting at $3.90 per gallon, the cost to dispose of the old fence, the cost for the crew (any crew worth their salt is going to require at least $4 per foot on this type of fence installation), overhead, and all the rest and the company/ contractor is making about $2 per linear foot profit. I don't know about you, but that just plain stinks. What happened to cost x 2?

If you look at it from a buyer's viewpoint what are you really getting for this price? Is sales tax included in the per foot cost? What is the warranty? I mean anyone can throw up a cheap fence using cheap concrete and offer a 1 year warranty when the fence will fall over in 18 months. How about offering a 5 to 7 year warranty on that fence being installed for $15.50 per foot. Can't do it because the materials and workmanship won't hold up.

So to all those contractors out there slashing the average price on fence installation - you'll get yours eventually. Stop messing with the industry and just build a solid product for a decent price.