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| Thread ID: 105669 | 2009-12-10 06:47:00 | $75 1 Hour PC cleanup... | xyz823 (13649) | PC World Chat |
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| 838462 | 2009-12-10 21:10:00 | As wainui we also charge $90 per hour with a minimum workshop fee of $50, which is pretty much what we charge for most jobs. Usually only goes over $50 if the system needs to be formated and reloaded from scratch or there is some major hardware change required like replacing a mainboard. $50 is what we would have charged for what you did darkstar09. |
CYaBro (73) | ||
| 838463 | 2009-12-10 21:10:00 | There's a big diff between an individual charging for something and a shop charging for something. It sounds good - eg you did well and it probably cost them less than if they took it to a shop. If they were happy with it you are all good! IMO $30 or $40 would have been sweet too, all depends on how well you know the person in question! It's nice to have someone insist on paying you...all too often friends/family think you are happy to do everything for them for free. Yes, I've just done this for 50 hours this week I would just love to get up early on Saturday and go out of my way to fix your PC for free. Would make my weekend. :badpc: Yea hanging round here has given my some good insite on the do and donts lol. |
xyz823 (13649) | ||
| 838464 | 2009-12-10 21:47:00 | I find users are happy to pay $120 an hour for a lawyer or 70 bucks for a plumber No, Lawyers charge around $300 an hour. And they itemise by the minute too. Husband, a plumber charges $45 an hour. I continually moan about that to him. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 838465 | 2009-12-10 21:48:00 | Doesn't anybody clean fans, grills and heatsinks any more? Yes. If they need it. Usually it's desktops, you see it hanging out and take the side off and become buried in massive quantities of fluff and crud. Laptops, not so much........... |
pctek (84) | ||
| 838466 | 2009-12-10 22:10:00 | So what do you consider as an improper job? The one I have in the workshop right now. The lady told me she had some guy around just over a week ago, charged her $230, was there for three hours. (sitting there most of the time doing nothing she said). Within 3 days it was right back where it started. When she called him again, the person wanted to charge again as he said it was her that reinfected it. A quick look in msconfig, and Ccleaner startup logs shows the problem - an easy enough infection to remove if you know what you are doing. My name was mentioned after she moaned to one of her work Colleges, he referred me as I have done work for him in the past. PS: ( edited) just finished doing a Malwarebytes scan -- 432 :groan: |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 838467 | 2009-12-10 22:35:00 | darkstar09 - where you wrote: I was doing it for free but they insisted on paying me and I had no idea how much to charge. So I said $50 because I am not professional or anything and I wasn't expecting payment. Was this too much or too little? Thats completely upto you - You weren't going to charge - and they obviously felt they wanted to and if every ones happy with $50 then so be it. Theres been sometimes I have gone around to peoples houses in wainui ( not a big place) - what they think is a BIG problem I have fixed in a minute or two - they insist on paying even though I say no - usually we settle with coffee and biscuits. Along with them saying -- add it to the next time you come around ---- Yeah yeah right O ;) Its called customer relations. Think about this a minute -- here in PF1 are many people giving out expert advice, some do this work for a living, others dont. How much is all the advice worth here if it were chargable ??? |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 838468 | 2009-12-10 22:50:00 | I charge $60-$80 for friends, and $80-$100 for friends of friends depending on how bad the computer is. This usually involves running ccleaner & glary to get rid of temp files, uninstalling anything they're not using with revo (usually on the phone with them while I'm doing it to confirm the apps they use), delete startup entries with Autoruns, scan with Malwarebytes/SuperAntiSpyware and NOD32, apply service packs/Windows updates, re-run ccleaner & glary, boot into safe mode and run jkdefrag, tweak some visual effects if it's an old PC, clean out the case, and give it back. All of this probably equates to about 2 hours sitting in front of the PC if it's really old and slow! One I did recently (Dell with XP Home) took 13 minutes from the Welcome screen to where I could open the Start menu.:crying When I asked the lady how she managed to put up with it, she just gave me a blank look and said she thought it was normal; used to switch it on, go have a cuppa, then come back and it would be ready!! :D |
nofam (9009) | ||
| 838469 | 2009-12-10 23:05:00 | Husband, a plumber charges $45 an hour. I continually moan about that to him. I wondered why he always looks so miserable. |
Cicero (40) | ||
| 838470 | 2009-12-10 23:10:00 | Heres the REAL way people charge: :D My hourly rates: $30 per hour. $40 per hour if you want to watch. $50 per hour if you want to help. $75 per hour if you tried to fix it, and failed. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 838471 | 2009-12-11 00:56:00 | You forgot the corollary to Option 4, Minimum 4 hours | R2x1 (4628) | ||
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