People these days drive hard bargain for everything they buy. Well, there’s nothing wrong with this. Value for money is the important thing here. But for Feng Shui, how do you measure value for money? Frankly. I’m not sure if there’s any benchmark here. There’s probably none, for something seemingly abstract.
Anyway, what sparked this thought, was a friend’s Feng Shui engagement experience.
This husband and wife got a new house and thought they wanted to have a Feng Shui audit. They came to me and my wife because we had our house looked then when we bought the house. They were turned off by the price. I paid $1488 for my audit. They thought it was expensive and decided not to engage the same person. They shopped around and found one for about 500 bucks. This was the best deal in their opinion.
So they had their Feng Shui audit. The practitioner made a few recommendations and got a date for the renovations to start. This is the interesting part. Lunar 7th month was near, so the practitioner thinks that work cannot be done in that month. While there’s not such concept in Feng Shui, I think we can let it pass. Some people are superstitious. We can’t drop the psychological effect. Anyway, the practitioner chose a date, the last day of the Lunar 6th month. Convenient but I’m not sure if it’s the right day. He recommended that they place some stuff around the house. I wasn’t given the details. I’m not sure what other recommendation he made but the audit was concluded with 1 visit.
Anyway, some unpleasant events happened after the 开工, but I couldn’t tell if it’s related to Feng Shui or it’s some other reasons because I have not seen the house myself.
Now, there are some issues here that I couldn’t agree with on the recommendations, but I’m not going to discuss that. The main thing that I couldn’t agree was the single visit.
While I trust that there are alot of experts out there, I doubt there’s 1 shot 1 kill kind, unless it’s the Feng Shui practitioner who implements everything himself personally. Decent practitioners would be back for at least 1 more visit to make sure everything is right. It’s a matter of responsibility.
I’m not saying here that expensive is good, or the one whole did my Feng Shui was the best. (In fact he’s not. I discovered the mistakes after I learnt this art). The point here is that Feng Shui is not a fixed commodity. It’s a service, just like any other service industry out there. I’m being blunt here, but the cheap ones, have their reasons for being cheap.
Do yourself a favour, if you do engage such a service, don’t take price as the top criteria. Get more opinions and feedback from people who has engaged Feng Shui services and see if things work for them. That should be one of the consideration before looking at price.