Computer Repairing Business

tomd84

Hi, i know this is not the correct forum, but the people in here seam to know a lot about trading laws ect so here i go

If i was going to put an add in a newspaper to repair computers what do i have to do from the law point of view?

Thanks Tom :-)

CIS

If you in a business, technically you need to register S/Employed for tax and Ni and possibly VAT.

A lot of people also take out insurance as an indemnity.

bleugh

you only need to consider it a business should your turnover exceed a large amount (i'm not certain what)

one piece of advice though when repairing computers, many people believe that any fault that occurs after your repair is a result of a 'shoddy repair', and therfore liable for 'free' repairs every time something goes wrong

there are some right idiots out there, rarely do you come accross a nice person in the computer repair business

IF you decide to go ahead with things, ensure you do NO 'favours', otherwise, every 'small' item after that then should be a 'favour' and therfore unchargeable. the minute you charge for a favour and the next fault occurs, then you're back to square 1, clearly the fault must be related to the original repair 'as it never done that before'

computer repair is a mucky business i'm afraid, and there aint much money to be made either :-(

tomd84

bleugh wrote:

you only need to consider it a business should your turnover exceed a large amount (i'm not certain what)

one piece of advice though when repairing computers, many people believe that any fault that occurs after your repair is a result of a 'shoddy repair', and therfore liable for 'free' repairs every time something goes wrong

there are some right idiots out there, rarely do you come accross a nice person in the computer repair business

IF you decide to go ahead with things, ensure you do NO 'favours', otherwise, every 'small' item after that then should be a 'favour' and therfore unchargeable. the minute you charge for a favour and the next fault occurs, then you're back to square 1, clearly the fault must be related to the original repair 'as it never done that before'

computer repair is a mucky business i'm afraid, and there aint much money to be made either :-(

It's only a part time thing i want to do while i have the long college summer free! but im not sure if its worth it from a "legal" point of view, beucase even if it a very small business with small turnover what do i have to register for and pay?

soolin

tomd84 wrote:

It's only a part time thing i want to do while i have the long college summer free! but im not sure if its worth it from a "legal" point of view, beucase even if it a very small business with small turnover what do i have to register for and pay?

Basically you will be liable for tax and NI on *any* income at all after taking your expenses into account.

Soo

Fraserca

The cowboys always have only a mobile number - If you are genuine place your ad with both a fixed line number AND a proper address.

I wouldn't deal with anyone who has no verifiable address.

tomd84

Fraserca wrote:

The cowboys always have only a mobile number - If you are genuine place your ad with both a fixed line number AND a proper address.

I wouldn't deal with anyone who has no verifiable address.

Just becuase they have a fixed line number don't mean there even in that area or its fixed!

~cleo~

bleugh wrote:

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one piece of advice though when repairing computers, many people believe that any fault that occurs after your repair is a result of a 'shoddy repair', and therfore liable for 'free' repairs every time something goes wrong

there are some right idiots out there, rarely do you come accross a nice person in the computer repair business

IF you decide to go ahead with things, ensure you do NO 'favours', otherwise, every 'small' item after that then should be a 'favour' and therfore unchargeable. the minute you charge for a favour and the next fault occurs, then you're back to square 1, clearly the fault must be related to the original repair 'as it never done that before'

computer repair is a mucky business i'm afraid, and there aint much money to be made either :-(

i second that, i have only ever done computer repair work for friends and family i try to avoid doing work for people other than that as other people are forever calling u back to do things which are often a 5 min job and therefore feel guilty charging them - i used to build pc's to order and offered some sort of after support but after hearing nothing from one lady 4 years later rung me up and tell me her pc had crashed and i should fix it!!

Grade_A_Reject

~cleo~ wrote:

i second that, i have only ever done computer repair work for friends and family i try to avoid doing work for people other than that as other people are forever calling u back to do things which are often a 5 min job and therefore feel guilty charging them - i used to build pc's to order and offered some sort of after support but after hearing nothing from one lady 4 years later rung me up and tell me her pc had crashed and i should fix it!!

I'd agree with that too. I only sold a couple of built to order PCs on which I didn't make much money and the buyers then expect free 24 hour lifetime support!

"We've bought this game from a car boot sale and can't get it to work, it must be something wrong with the computer you sold us"!