"Eeyore" wrote in message
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Just curious as to some idea of what you find people will cough up for
equipment
repair.

I got a surprise last year when Shuttlesound (a UK pro-audio distributor)
informed me that they charge £35 (IIRC) per 'unit of labour'. The unit in
question was 1/4 hr !

Graham


For domestic equipment work, I charge a flat rate to trade of £18 per job.
That mostly equates to an hourly rate of between £18 and £36. If it looks
like it's going to exceed an hour by much more than a few minutes, then it
goes on quote after I've spent about a half hour on it. If it doesn't go
ahead at the quoted price, then a flat charge of £10 trade is made. I leave
it to the shops to hold the spares accounts and to handle ordering the
spares. That way, it's not my money tied up in spares accounts, and the
shops can make an additional markup on them if they wish. Overall, it works
very well like that, so long as you are busy. It allows the shops who are
supplying me with the work, to charge a fixed rate plus parts, and to take a
non returnable 'investigation' deposit from the customer. For 'commercial'
work, I charge about four times that amount.

Arfa