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| Thread ID: 64520 | 2005-12-18 00:34:00 | How much should I charge for this job? | Greven (91) | PC World Chat |
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| 413564 | 2005-12-18 00:34:00 | greven.servegame.com I am hoping to get harcourts to temporarily employ me to do this for them because becoming self employed for a small job like this isn't worth it. ImageF1 is down at the moment so I'm serving the image off my home computer. Can someone copy it to a propper server & post the URL? |
Greven (91) | ||
| 413565 | 2005-12-18 00:37:00 | depending on how long it takes you to do it, i spose 1-2k | Tux (606) | ||
| 413566 | 2005-12-18 03:13:00 | Charge yourself out at an hourly rate, and multiply that by the amount of time you spend on it and add some costs incurred. | MikeS (756) | ||
| 413567 | 2005-12-18 07:57:00 | The story goes: A company decided to install a new boiler. The preparation work was done but as the boiler was lowered onto the concrete plinths a very large dent appeared in one side. Management panicked and sent for a specialist in dent removal. He wandered round the boiler for a couple of minutes then, taking a large rubber mallet from his car, he whacked the boiler and the dent sprang out. Marvellous, thought management until the dent remover's bill arrived, $3000.- "What?" screamed the bean counter "Tell him to itemise his account." The itemised account was duly delivered: To travelling time.............................$ 250.-- To dent removal...............................$ 300.-- To knowing where to hit the boiler........$2450.-- The account was promptly paid. Knowledge is the most valuable commodity in this world - even more valuable than gold and oil - whatever you do don't undervalue your knowledge. :) |
Dusty (3931) | ||
| 413568 | 2005-12-18 08:32:00 | The itemised account was duly delivered: To travelling time.............................$ 250.-- To dent removal...............................$ 300.-- To knowing where to hit the boiler........$2450.-- Sounds good in theory but reality today - Disputes Tribunal: Refund. COurt costs. For excessive charges. Sounds good in theory but reality today - |
pctek (84) | ||
| 413569 | 2005-12-18 08:46:00 | Dustys got the right idea. Charge as much as you can, but bear in mind if you are not seen to be giving value for money, you won't get any repeat business from them. A satisfied customer tells a couple of people, a disatisfied customer will tell ten. I read that somewhere | Phil B (648) | ||
| 413570 | 2005-12-18 21:01:00 | It appears to possibly be quite vague as to what there overall requirements are. I would suggest maybe seeing if you could spend some time with them free of charge to go over what it is they actually are looking for and then submit a quote based on that. There statment "store as much information as possible", could lead to arguments, that the information they now want included is part of the original "store as much information as possible". You may give them a fixed price based on that, and then they start to add this, that and everything else to the mix, and expect it all to be accomplished for the same price as the original quote. You should see if you can find some information on the current system they are using, to see how much they paid for it. Based on the information they have provided, i would probably be looking at anywhere between 2.5-10k. |
Obelix (752) | ||
| 413571 | 2005-12-18 23:29:00 | They are currently using pen & paper for keeping track of maintainance & using real easy rentals for all the standard rentals stuff. I could rewrite their entire system in Jade given enough time & money, but I don't have enough of the former & I doubt they will part with enough of the later. I've been in to see what it is like at the moment & it is horrible - they have to make up reports manually & there is a heap of room for human error. |
Greven (91) | ||
| 413572 | 2005-12-18 23:35:00 | I can't imagine a project like that would take TOO long. It mostly depends on previous experience, common sense usually dictates that less experience = less money. | DangerousDave (697) | ||
| 413573 | 2005-12-19 01:20:00 | When faced with too many unknowns in having to give an estimate, I work on a gut feel for the $, add 20% and submit it as an upper limit that will not be exceeded without agreement in writing. That keeps the client happy, and on the few occasions more time has been needed it has never been a problem to approach them and explain what and why. |
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