Because they give you a phone number or E-mail to learn more about them?

I’d say they are delighted not to get your call to be honest 😛

They’re not exactly expecting you to drop a child off to them or to give them 50 grand to look after, its an Ad to see if anybody would like some work done on their house, nothing to lose by giving them a call…..

I’ve been trying to figure you out for a while now blueorange, I cant.

You win

oh oh oh, you can start doing your ads Austrian CV style, with passport photos in the corner…

And a reference from your headmistress…..

what in gods name would make them more reliable by stating their last name! Info about a license in Austria…what freakin license are you talking about BlueOrange? Pricing policy; you pay for what you agree to, for goodness sake, what land are you living in? Please do not give them a free business consulting hour, why? Because you have already shown that you know nothing about business. You have advertised their services so much without even knowing it! The joke is on you right now.

@DizzyHunter: BO seems unable to be happy that others can take the plunge and start their own business, and seems to be incapable of being positive about that fact, since he/she works in an industry he/she is clearly unhappy with. BO is not happy with anything on this forum to be quite honest, its all about putting people down through his/her own problems in life. I think we all need to just feel sorry about that and hope that she/he finds happiness in life through another avenue, other than dissing people that clearly have a good idea and want to make it work. I think that most of us know what BO’s hobby is 🙂

@BlueOrange. I dont ask for “license agreements” in Austria when i go to the grocery store, or the bank, or any shop i go to. Nor do I see this on websites. What exactly is your point? And what does pricing policy mean anyway in your mind? Many companies do not advertise their prices online simply because they work in a “custom made” industry. How can they put a price list down in such an industry? Dont answer BO, its a rhetorical question.

Cant you just be supportive of people and not bring out your fecking sword every time someone has a new and exciting business to offer?

Sorry to others for this outburst but I’m a true believer in supporting anyone in their new ventures, and until its proven otherwise, I really cant see any platform for dissing them. Your comments are seriously out of order BO.

Reading though the lists of comments I find it rather interesting and would like to put in my two bobs worth from a self employed contractor who offers services to the English community in the Vienna area.
First I would simply like to point out that there is reason to make statements about how people advertise for work and what licenses they have. There has been a very large number of English speaking people who have arrived over here without the skill of German and find themselves unable to get work so simply take to throwing in an add on such web sites where English speaking people are. And claiming they are so called experts in there field of work. Many have left there customers with a large repair bill by not being a trades person at all.
I would also point out that we trades people do understand that when we enter a customers home we are in fact invading there privacy and we take care to let our customers fell comfortable with having us in there home, and that we can be trusted to do our work while they are not home or at work. To be a Trades person is not just to hold some form of license. But to know our trade inside out and back to front so to speak. To leave the home as you find it clean and tidy and all work done in a tradesman like manner.
Over the past 30 odd years I pride myself on these facts and that I can offer my customers real trade advice and also work with many other trades people who are experts at there trade. I would never offer a customer to work on something that I could not supply top workmanship on but would pass this work onto specialists of that trade, including top Austrian trades people.
At the moment there are around 5 top trades people who are native English speakers in and around Vienna whom I would only be to happy to pass work onto if I can not find the time but there are many other people whom call them selves trades people!!!
Normally a trades person has there own tools complete, there own trade auto and all things that are needed, I do find on many occasions that people do ask me things like do you have a ladder! Or should I supply tools, which may seem funny to us but in fact we find out that the last person they had doing work did not have such things.
We do get our problems at times which we do try to settle,
We do get the following,
Oh I only wanted to pay 5 euro to fix our cupboard or now you have done the job thanks its really good work but I want a discount! Sorry we are trades people who run a business we pay our tax, we pay our health insurance, we pay for our autos and tools, and we charge the minimum amount that we can afford to do after over 40% gets taken out for tax and health insurance, we are not a Turkish bizza like lots of expats think.
Yes there are lots of workers from the old eastern block country who will do the work for far cheaper than we can they are black workers and there workmanship is as what they charge, there is also many good workers from these areas but I have found the good trades people from there charge the same rates as we do. Same old story get what you pay for with no sympathy from real trades people.
This is a free world we hopefully live in and I would never rubbish any real trades person from having a go at getting there business going here in Austria.
I do put my real name to my adverts with my real phone number and email address where people who wish work to be done can feel free to call me and discuss there needs without commitment, I also offer free quotations.
Many thanks
Bevin Clement.
BC Construction. And handyman services.