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Update an old quote when your costs have gone up
A customer comes back months later ready to go ahead on an old quote, but materials and your rates have risen since. Get a reply that updates the price without losing the job.
The prompt · ChatGPT
A customer wants to go ahead on an old quote. Help me update it. The job and old quote: [details and date] What the quote said about validity: [e.g. 30 days, or nothing] What's changed: [e.g. timber up, my day rate up] My new price: [amount] How much I want the job: [details] Ask me up to 3 short questions first if anything important is missing. Wait for my answers. Then: 1. A short, friendly reply that's glad they're back and explains the change in one or two lines. 2. The updated quote wording with a clear validity date. 3. Ways to soften it if I want to (phase the work, swap a material, hold the old price for part of it). 4. A validity line for all my future quotes. Use only what I've given you, leave blanks for any price or fact I haven't given, and don't invent anything. UK English. Stay in this ChatGPT chat. Do not turn on apps or connectors, and do not use memory from another chat.
A short example
Fill the blanks, then paste. details and date: a short note you already have. e.g. 30 days, or nothing: a short note you already have. Leave the rest of the prompt as written.
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