Today a Messerschleifer showed up on our door, asking if we had any knives that we’d like to have them sharpen for us. We asked for a price, which they first didn’t clearly want to tell us. I insisted on a clear price and he said he would take 7.- per cm of knife. Since we had two knives that actually could have used to be sharpen, we tried to negotiate a better price. Both knives together were 38cm long, which would have made a ridiculous price of 266.- after some discussion he tried to agree us on 3.-/cm, still highly too expensive. In the end he would have been okay with 40.-, which he still wanted us to add a 10.- “bonus” on top for his “quality work”.
- is it normal that knife sharpeners knock at your door and try to offer this kind of service?
- what is an actually agreeable price for this 2-minute-service (I don’t see it as any form of “Handwerk”/craftsmanship since he just used a sharpening tool in the back of his car…)? Thanks for your thoughts on that. submitted by /u/Popular-Ad-3763
Originally posted by u/Popular-Ad-3763 on r/Switzerland
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