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Which one's cheapest?

Three bathroom quotes, three ways of writing GST. Put them in one table on the same GST basis in QSME and see which one is actually cheapest.

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Quotes in QSME land in one table, emailed ones included once you have checked them. What each bidder wrote stays in bold and the maths in grey, and you can flip every total between excluding and including GST. QSME does not pick the winner; it stops GST picking it for you.

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Which one's cheapest? Trick question. Looks like the seventy-four hundred, or this one, or this. Depends how you read them.

The emailed one goes in too, once I've checked it. One table: bold's what they wrote, grey's the maths.

Excluding GST, Steamline's lowest. Flip it and, hang on, it moved. Trev. That's what we pay.

Seventy-four hundred plus GST is eighty-five ten. Never the cheapest. I'd have picked that one.

Open one, see what it covers. QSME doesn't pick the winner. It stops GST picking it for you. Sign up at qsme.co.nz.

Dramatised: names, jobs and businesses are fictional, and on-screen data is illustrative.