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

On Wed, 12 Sep 2007 18:15:34 +0100 Eeyore
wrote in Message id:
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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 !

My company charges $150USD per hour for my repair labor. Wish I got even
HALF of that...

Gee, and I thought I was expensive at $30CDN / hr !

On Wed, 12 Sep 2007 18:15:34 +0100, Eeyore
wrote:

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

Eeyore wrote:
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 !

**Servicing almost anything but 'mission-critical' equipment (robotics
controls for a manufacturing plant, for instance) is a mug's game. Back
when I started to service professionally in my own business (1980) I was
charging AUS$25.00/hour. Allowing for inflation, I should be charging
around $180.00/hour today. The industry standard is more $80.00/hour.
That is all I can legitemately charge to service domestic/pro equipment.
Add to that, the incredibly low cost of most products now (a client
delivered a Chinese made, 250 W/ch pro amp for service - he paid
AUS$450.00 new for it), it is not worth servicing a large number of
products that cross my bench. It's not going to get any better and it'll
be quite some time before I can afford a case of Veuve Cliquot (vintage)
again. The best I can mange is the odd bottle of non-vintage.

Time to find a new career.

Trevor Wilson

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"Eeyore" wrote in message
...
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