Sure, good.
Those guys were independent businessmen competing in the free market. The costs included their overhead; their vehicle, their tools, their marketing (Craig’s list ad), and so forth.
That said, good for them for doing well in the free market.
And zyxt is absolutely right - a guy who knows how to plumb who also has business acumen - savvy with marketing, logistics, supply chain, staffing, etc. - can become a mega million.
And good for them.
The cream rises to the top; the wheat gets separated from the chaff.
EDIT: My bad for not giving kudos to you for mocking the first guy about using gold - nice job.
Just this week I finally got a call back from a doc’s office that I literally made a BBB complaint against - docs I think ain’t used to gettin’ those; I think peops is just too trusting of their doctors - and of course, docs don’t return those kinds of calls.
So I’m being charged an exorbitant amount of money for just a few minutes time with this guy, and I said to the guy who called me back, I said “I wouldn’t pay more than half that for the same amount of time to have sex with Jennifer Anniston - and we’re talkin’ butt sex, too.”