veedubfreak
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What people tend to forget is that most "pc savvy folks" like myself also already have a 40 hour job. Guess what, if im working on your computer, you are cutting into MY time.
Some of my older return customer I have been charging more. Reason being is that I have kept my $80 + tax for the last 5 years. And in the main time, the price of petrol and nearly doubled. It also comes down to the post code. I got a nice rich area just 10 minutes drive from where I work where I will charge $100 to $120 per hour becuase :-Harper everything you've said here is pure Truth. If I could sig your whole thing I would
Harper is a little different situation than most of us because he has a business but he's right. For on-site service you can't do anything else and what he charges is a bargain in any case. On-site around here runs circa $90 USD and most of these folks aren't nearly as skilled as Harper must be by now and he's charging them less.
You'd be surprised how much less we have to put up with if we want even like $20 to do something as opposed to free. Far fewer people are begging for your help (having it be free is more important than having it done well) and those you do help become much more professional.
when im dealing with friends i usually do it for free, unless its time consuming, even then i will only charge about $20 or i'll burn one ov there games or something. When im dealing with people that live around me i charge $40 an hour, if its easy i'll do it for free to be nice and for they come back to me instead of going to someone else.
i dont charge family anything. only parts, and lots of time i build them frankensteins out of my old parts. i built my mom a killer office PC with some older AMD dual core parts.
i dont charge friends anything. my friends are family too. if your friends aren't, they aren't your friends...they are accquaintences (sp?).
accquaintences, i charge whatever i feel is fair, not really an hourly rate. you can call geeksquad or whatever and get their rates for this and that...which are typically ridiculous, charge a little less than that, and then you can still sleep at night.
hey...is it even legal to charge tax on labor? its not in texas....doesn't mean that it holds for everywhere else....
Ever since Jack Boot Johnny Howard braught in the GST in 2000 it is.hey...is it even legal to charge tax on labor? its not in texas....doesn't mean that it holds for everywhere else....