UPDATED IN OP: UGH I HATE negotiating!!!!

[munkii]

You originally were going to go with granite, right? When you change your mind to a more expensive option, you have to pay the price. Sorry the sales lady told you her wholesale price for your contractor, but that's his price, not yours.

[kaylie]

Are his guys doing the template and installation or is the granite place doing that? That's a fairly specialized undertaking. Either way, adding $3K on to the cost for that is ridiculous. I wouldn't feel bad at all about negotiating that. If he's still getting $1,000 for the "labor" he's done pretty well for himself. Coordinating granite installation was the easiest part of our kitchen reno. We paid $500 for template and install.

[dr.girlfriend]

How many square feet is it? Three slabs sounds like a lot, and from what I understood quartz is usually more expensive than granite. I only used one granite slab -- less, actually -- and the "retail price" was $3600. Although maybe I got screwed too (although my price was knocked down to $2900). ;-)

I've always found this site to be pretty accurate.

www.homewyse.com/costs/cost_of_quartz_countertops.html

[jillybean222]

Do you know the square footage? We got 52 sq ft of granite for our kitchen and another 24 sq ft for our girls' bath and we would have been able to use one slab if we chose the same stone for both (we didn't)...3 slabs seems like a lot!

[dr.girlfriend]

Aug 20, 2014 19:40:32 GMT -5 @bluesky said:

EDIT:  We have approx 60 sq feet of countertop.  So the price he originally quoted comes to $75 per sq foot installed.  After seeing what we chose (white quartz cheaper non- name brand), he changed the price to $100 sq foot installed.  Am I wrong to "let him take a loss" as he suggested and keep it at the $75 per sq foot?  We are doing square edge, only cutout is corner sink.  

This shouldn't matter but if we don't take him up on "his loss", we will have to go elsewhere to buy the countertops and delay the project. We don't have any more $$ to pay.

He's not going to do it for a loss.  At most he's losing some of his profit, but he wouldn't do it if it would put him in the hole.  He's a business person.

You asked him to lower his price, he lowered his price.  Absolutely take it.  Did you put your info into the calculator and see what estimate it gave you?  Not that it matters, but it might make you feel better.