{"id":38204,"date":"2020-03-17T05:39:28","date_gmt":"2020-03-16T19:09:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/?p=38204"},"modified":"2020-03-17T05:39:28","modified_gmt":"2020-03-16T19:09:28","slug":"beware-cheap-solar-mb1447","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/beware-cheap-solar-mb1447\/","title":{"rendered":"Solar Power Systems &#8211; How Cheap Is Too Cheap?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"youtube-wrapper\"><iframe title=\"Solar Power In Australia - How Cheap Is Too Cheap?\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BGsodG9-w4M?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve organised quotes for a solar power system installation and then found another company offering the same brands for half the price; how is that cheaper company able to do so? Finn explains what might be happening.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Transcript:<\/p>\n<p>One question I get all the time goes something like this.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Hi Finn, I&#8217;ve received all three quotes from the guys you referred, but I&#8217;ve also found this fourth company myself and they&#8217;re offering same brands as one of your guys, but for $2,000 less. Why the difference in price?&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, I tell them it can be for one of two reasons.<\/p>\n<p>One, they&#8217;re a high-volume, low-margin installer whose business model is to buy in bulk and then pass those savings onto the customer to stay competitive in the cutthroat solar market, while still doing a compliant installation. Think Jetstar over Qantas.<\/p>\n<p>Or secondly, they could be a high-volume, low-margin installer whose business model is to buy brands that may or may not be crap, do a rushed installation and then have no money left over to deliver after-sales service to the customer. So, the customer gets a cheap system, but who knows how long it&#8217;s going to last.<\/p>\n<p>At this point, I&#8217;ll say that over the last 11 years I&#8217;ve gotten to know the Aussie solar industry pretty damn well, and I know the margins involved in running a sustainable solar installation business.<\/p>\n<p>Often when a customer shows me a cheaper quote they found elsewhere, I simply cannot understand how the company can offer such a system at such a price without cutting corners.<\/p>\n<h2>Research Is Important<\/h2>\n<p>To people considering those cheap quotes, I beg you, do some research online. Search the company&#8217;s reputation in Google; see what <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/installers\/reviews\/\"> reviews<\/a> you can find, and also search for them in the Whirlpool forums. Five minutes of Googling can reveal a wealth of information on whether you should trust a cheaper company or not.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s trickier when the cheaper companies offer the exact same brands as a more moderately priced company, but trust me; using decent brands is only 50% of a system. It&#8217;s unfortunately all too common to take decent brands and make a dog&#8217;s breakfast of the installation.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll sign off by saying the bitterness of low quality remains long after the sweetness of low prices is forgotten.<\/p>\n<p><i>For everything you need to know about choosing a solar power system and an installer in Australia, check out Finn&#8217;s book, <a href=\"https:\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/good-solar-guide\/contents\/\">The Good Solar Guide<\/a>, which is free to read in its entirety online.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve organised quotes for a solar power system installation and then found another company offering the same brands for half the price; how is that cheaper company able to do so? 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