$180 a little high for a pole install?

[Claude Greiner]

You just got a Lazy installer because the easiest way to blow off a Job is tell the customer there will be additional charges!

Depending on the pole, a reasonable price should be no more than $50

[Jimbo]

Why dont you just install the pole on your own?

Pole $15 and Home depot
Quick setting cemet $8

Takes about half hour.

Then call the installer out.

That is what I plan on doing

Jimbo

[grydlok]

You just got a Lazy installer because the easiest way to blow off a Job is tell the customer there will be additional charges!

Depending on the pole, a reasonable price should be no more than $50

depends on where you live. 50 dollars won't get you anything around here.

[bsilvertab]

In northern Michigan a 10 ft pole with 2 inch diameter was $60. Crazy.

[iafirebuff]

That's not too bad, as their is drive time and labor involved.

[Stargazer]

The 2" poles are harder to find and would probably be more expensive. I know that I have had others in my area price pole mounts at $70 and I have tried getting $50 but they complain saying that a pole does not cost $50. By the time one has to figure out the price of the pole, concrete, extra wire and extra labor I think $50 is very reasonable. I have put some in for less or nothing in some circumstances though. Usually when I put one in, what causes the pole mount is if the dish is far away from the house and a lot of burying is required which causes the extra fee for the pole mount. If the pole is real close the house then it is due to the fact that they choose to have it on the pole instead of the house and I tell them to just pay for the pole or I just put it in for free.

[srs913]

If you are ordering dish from dish network its self then a pole mount is included with up to 50 feet of burial free of charge, if its a local retailer you ordered from, then its their discresion of what to charge. When the installer shows up, ask him to look at the paperwork you are going to be required to sign after the install, if he has whats called an rsp which stands for regional service provider work order, then somewhere on there will say pole mount with up to 50 feet of burial.

[iafirebuff]

$50-$75 in my area I would consider reasonable :-) Shoot, you have about $25 in parts, not counting coax. THen labor/travel time. Adds up :-)

[IndyTech]

Well, i would have to say, WOW 180.00 ???. I'll put Dishes on poles all day long, it's easier, the HSP i work for, tells us not to charge the cust, because putting it on a pole actually saves us time, Who Wants to climb up and down a ladder, it you can work right on the ground at waist level? My Suggestion, Call D* tell them, that 180.00 seems a little steep and ou're not exactly happy, they'll turn it into an escalation and if that guy ripped you off, you might get some cash back.

[iafirebuff]

I just put up a Primestar dish on a post a 4' above ground, and it was much easier than the dishes I have put up on roofs and mounted to sides of houses :-)