How much for fixing comps?

mdbarber

Conor wrote: »

Of course you're paying for the time. The time taken to do the job is factored into the pricing. If you aren't allowed to go off and do something else in "idle time" then the price for the job goes up as you're limiting the earning potential of that worker. If idle time forms 50% of the time of the job, you're effectively limiting the earning potential of that worker by 50% by not allowing them to go off and do other things. Every business where a large part of the charge is for labour, rather than physical items, has a figure they need to earn per hour/day/week to meet the bills, commonly known as "fixed costs" and that's taken into account in their charges. Scupper their ability to do more than one job at a time when it's possible to and the only way to meet that fixed costing is to up the prices.

OK, lets have a look at your way of doing it. We'll take those 20 computers I mentioned I did earlier as it's a perfect example as they were charged on a fixed fee per machine basis.

Each computer took 2 hours. My hourly rate at that time was £20 an hour so a fixed price for each computer for that job would be £40 using your way. So if I were to do it your way and do one computer at a time and not starting the next until the current one was completed even though most of it was sat there waiting for things to finish, it would take me 40 hours - a full week - and each would be £40 for a total charge of £800. A pretty poor weekly figure for a business don't you think?
But due to the fact that thankfully I and plenty of others who have businesses don't listen to you, because I was able to do more by running them concurrently I was able to charge £20 per computer instead of £40, saving my customer 50% of the cost. As well as that it meant I was able to do it out of business hours and therefore have zero impact on them which saved them more money. It also freed up 36 hours for me to go do other jobs which meant that I could earn more over that total 40hr period thus allowing me to have a lower hourly rate for ALL my customers.

...but I guess you're too short sighted to see that. Either that or you're happy paying double the amount or more for things. Stick to being on PAYE and leave those with nous to run businesses.

conor please stop preaching go through the whole thread incl OP and READ IT
You are entirely missing the point ie "on-site call out" rate, this thread had nothing to do with time management on workshop repairs.
The point i was making was about the loon saying 20-30 pounds was a fair call out rate??
And when was the last time you went into a hairdressers and were "estimated" on a hair cut on the basis you had a bushy head so it would take longer to cut lol

Conor_3

mdbarber wrote: »

conor please stop preaching go through the whole thread incl OP and READ IT
You are entirely missing the point ie "on-site call out" rate, this thread had nothing to do with time management on workshop repairs.
The point i was making was about the loon saying 20-30 pounds was a fair call out rate??
And when was the last time you went into a hairdressers and were "estimated" on a hair cut on the basis you had a bushy head so it would take longer to cut lol

Stupid moron, I wasn't on about workshop repairs, I was on about ON SITE ONES.

And !!!!!! are you on about estimating? Where did you get that from you braindead mouth breather?

Stick to being an employee and a stupid one at that.

mdbarber

You sir are an absolute moron who can't even read basic language so i doubt you have ever actually run a successful business.
FYI I have run and sold several small businesses and no longer need that kind of earning hence i can now work for someone else and not have the stress that produces arrogance of your level.

petunia100

Thanks for your replies.