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| metroidboy 2005-04-03, 11:01 pm |
| Hello everyone.
What are some of rates for pc repair. I've been offered a small job to do, but don't know the average rate for such a job. The will consist of backing up important documents, deleting and reinstalling the OS. How much would be a good price? Farthermore how would you calculate the labor? Also if you can throw in other average ratings for normal PC repairs would soooo help me out. Thx  | |
| ChrisDfer 2005-04-04, 12:58 am |
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Originally posted by metroidboy
Hello everyone.
What are some of rates for pc repair. I've been offered a small job to do, but don't know the average rate for such a job. The will consist of backing up important documents, deleting and reinstalling the OS. How much would be a good price? Farthermore how would you calculate the labor? Also if you can throw in other average ratings for normal PC repairs would soooo help me out. Thx
five dolla sucky sucky | |
| enforcer 2005-04-04, 7:02 am |
| Rates will vary on where you are.
Look around at people advertising in your area and see what they are charging.
post your area here and maybe someone else here is close by and maybe able to give you an idea. | |
| curiousgeorge 2005-04-04, 3:01 pm |
| Call a local repair place and tell them the problem you are going to go fix and act like it's you who need the help. Ask how much they charge.
done. | |
| ChrisDfer 2005-04-05, 1:09 am |
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Originally posted by curiousgeorge
Call a local repair place and tell them the problem you are going to go fix and act like it's you who need the help. Ask how much they charge.
done.
Then charge the customer double and take the system into those guys to repair it? | |
| carlitos 2005-04-05, 3:23 am |
| can you tell us the area you live?
i used to live in long island ,NY and work in my own
then moved to san diego
and i had to learn the rates around here
i checked the local computer magazines
craiglist has guys advertising their rates in alot cities
if you tells us your city
we could help more | |
| metroidboy 2005-04-06, 6:32 pm |
| Hello all.
I live in New York City.  I still don't know how much to charge. I'm sure he probably called other PC repair places, if that were the case he would just bring it there. How much would a "independent contractor" like myself charge? | |
| ChrisDfer 2005-04-06, 8:40 pm |
| NYC ehhh? I live on long island and whenever I do anything like that I usually charge only $55/hr.. but I have low confidence and smell funny. | |
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but I have low confidence and smell funny.
[QUOTE]five dolla sucky sucky beer alcohol fixes any confidence problem! as for the smell funny take a bath and use alot of soap while your at it wash your mouth and mind out with the soap. | |
| ChrisDfer 2005-04-10, 2:27 pm |
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Originally posted by kilz
[QUOTE]five dolla sucky sucky beer alcohol fixes any confidence problem! as for the smell funny take a bath and use alot of soap while your at it wash your mouth and mind out with the soap.
pthhh ok sparky...
You big stick in the mud.... | |
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| I know your dilemma. Done this "PC repair"
biz informally for many years. If you're talking about going to their house/business, $50/hour is definitely *not* out of line, nor is a two-hour minimum, which means the minute I step across your threshold, you owe me $100, whether I solve your problem or not. Even if it takes only a half-hour, you owe me a hundred bucks. I've never had a "customer" balk over those kind of rates. If you're good, you fix the problem, and provide any kind of backup support (guarantee, free second visit, etc.) they're generally *more* than happy to pay you.
If what you do a) appears to them like "magic" b) there was no f**king way they could've done it themselves, and c) you fixed a (seemingly) horrific problem, they're usually willing to pay just about anything, up to the replacement cost of the computer.
Just my $0.02. | |
| metroidboy 2005-04-10, 9:18 pm |
| Thx for the reply Kalex, your rates and service sound very reasonable. | |
| ChrisDfer 2005-04-10, 9:27 pm |
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Originally posted by metroidboy
Thx for the reply Kalex, your rates and service sound very reasonable.
He is just a poopoo head though... doo-doo heads make more. | |
| benbuiltpc 2005-04-12, 7:32 pm |
| Our shop's rates: Chicago area
Service calls: $59.00 to come out, $59.00 per hour, half hour min.
If you bring it into the shop, $59.00/hr.
Backup, format, and OS reinstall (using the customer's product key), and diagnostics should be at the most 2.5 hrs labor.
So about $147.50 is what we would normally charge, plus 2 bucks for each CD of rescued data. | |
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| [QUOTE]He is just a poopoo head though... doo-doo heads make more. | |
| acruth7284 2005-04-14, 2:01 am |
| Guess I should raise my rates...fixing things for experience just isn't paying the bills much anymore. | |
| thecomeons 2005-04-23, 1:15 pm |
| most places locally charge £40 for the first hour, then £20/hour afterwards. i usually charge £20/job, or parts plus fanny adams for friends | |
| Crutch 2005-04-26, 4:28 pm |
| I used to work for a company in Albuquerque NM that charged between $125 to $150 per hour, two hour minimum. I only received 22% with the company making the rest. Clock started when I received call and was headed to client site. One big difference from alot of the competitors was that all of our work was gauranteed. Some may say that the rates were extremely high, but we fixed problems the first time. It's all about the ROI for the customer. |
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