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"Bubba " ReMoVe wrote

Sorry Bubba, but I do that. So do some others. We charge $68/ hour.
The contactor I sell for about $20.00. We have a half hour minimum
charge for residential work. We have no trip charge. We are shooting
for 10% net pretax profit, which we have exceeded the last three years.
If I went on that call and it was a bad contactor, the charge would be
$34.00 labor + $20,00 Part = $54.00 total. Tax is included in the
part. By the way, I just bought a new 2500 Chevy van, paid 1/3 down.
We have more diagnostic tools than many larger companies that I know
of. We carry more parts than most any other company in our service
area. We are profitable.

Stretch,
Sorry bud but No freakin way. You have another company or something
subsidizing your ridiculously low prices. $54 to replace a contactor??
I used to charge that about 12 years ago and Im NOT kidding. No way
would your business survive with that kind of pricing.
Bubba

I'll have to second that.

Maybe 10 or 12 years ago we charged that. Our company is cheap and we sell
our regular Honeywell 2-pole contactor for about $32 and we have a standard
service call of $109 an hour. No more 1/2 hour rates. How in the world would
you ever pay your bills with a $54 charge? You must be a "loner" (1 man
company) that can afford to do that.

We don't charge trip charge either....