Originally Posted by brangdon:
“Um, I don't follow. Not keeping on top of expenses meant they spent £89 more than the boys, which was enough to lose them the task, and Mona (and Anita) carried the can for that. Admittedly Mona's sub-team made the bulk of the money, £217 versus £140, but much of that was due to their ridiculous over-pricing which I am reluctant to give much credit for. Or to put it another way, I'm not going to criticise Debra for not over-pricing the same way.
And frankly, I don't much care whether they are any good at cleaning cars. That's not what the eventual job will involve.”
It doesn't really matter if Mona overpriced, generally in business that's not a bad thing, it's all about negotiating the highest price and, I don't know how, but Mona and the girls on her team managed it considering they got to clean the hummers for £40 each instead of the £20 the company claimed they usually paid plus they showed a bit of initiative cleaning the cars on the busy industrial estate.
Debra's team on the other hand took three hours to clean four cars, so her 'fair pricing' is irreleavant if her and her team couldn't actually get the job done (they still didn't clean those classic cars properly after [i]three[i] hours!) and therefore lost out on extra money. Plus after that Debra had to ring Mona to say 'what next?' showing no initiative of her own and called her a second time complaining to Mona that she couldn't reign in her team.
If haggling a higher price was a bad thing Mona would have been picked up on it but she wasn't. Also you have to consider that one of their later tasks will involve getting a bunch of items for the highest price possible, even if it is a rip off. They win the tasks on how much money they make - that's it. Debra and her team failed on that front.