There is a fundamental difference between doing it in a shop and at their local. If we do it at a shop, we have tons of techs who can work on 10+ PCs at once with multiple benches setup. So cost to us is less, cost to the customer is less.
If I (or anyone) has to go to them, we are -only- working on that 1 PC at that time, we have a cost of gas involved, time traveled involved, other PCs not being worked on, etc. so the minimum is really a per hour, it's the only way to calculate revenue lost vs. revenue made to make it worth it. CW -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Thane Sherrington Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2005 7:51 AM To: The Hardware List Subject: RE: [H] Disposable computers At 09:34 AM 19/07/2005, Wayne Johnson wrote: >This is why I don't like to quote a per hour fee as I'm not a plumber. >Many times I'll only charge $50 for cleaning a system & maintaining their >data intact & while the other shops are charging several hundred for >wiping the machine all it's data & then charging the customer per hour to >surf the net to retrieve the necessary drivers. I also like asking people >how much is knowledge worth. ;-) Yes, I charge a flat rate for all our jobs. Sometimes I lose - but most times I'm accurate, and since I can do a bunch of machines simultaneously, it generally works out. (I'm not rich, however, so maybe I'm doing this wrong.) :) T
