i have a question on how much to charge.....

[mrweirdo]

Hello, I have a question about how much I should charge for my service. Having plenty of experience with computer repair and upgrades I have came across someone that wants me to upgrade all of their desktop computers from 98se to windows 2000 professional. I would be installing a fresh copy of windows 2000 on about 5 computers and reinstalling all software and drivers. All these machines are dells so drivers shouldn?t be too much of an issue and the hardware is good enough to support w2kpro. I am at a loss as to what I should charge for this. What do you think I should charge? What would you charge?

 

[minendo]

$30-50 per hour.

 

[Pokey007]

just make sure that you are not responsible for the computer crashing in six months. I suspect that they might expect that this comes with a lifetime warranty.

 

[Sluggo]

I'm not sure I would let a person who calls himself Mr. Weirdo work on my computers.

But thats just me.

 

[0roo0roo]

14bux max

 

[cheapgoose]

i wouldn't do it.

 

[NeoPTLD]

Originally posted by: mrweirdo
Hello, I have a question about how much I should charge for my service. Having plenty of experience with computer repair and upgrades I have came across someone that wants me to upgrade all of their desktop computers from 98se to windows 2000 professional. I would be installing a fresh copy of windows 2000 on about 5 computers and reinstalling all software and drivers. All these machines are dells so drivers shouldn?t be too much of an issue and the hardware is good enough to support w2kpro. I am at a loss as to what I should charge for this. What do you think I should charge? What would you charge?

I'm assuming the guy has enough clues that he must provide Win2000 OS or he'll be paying labor+OS.

 

[Kadarin]

Originally posted by: NeoPTLD

Originally posted by: mrweirdo
Hello, I have a question about how much I should charge for my service. Having plenty of experience with computer repair and upgrades I have came across someone that wants me to upgrade all of their desktop computers from 98se to windows 2000 professional. I would be installing a fresh copy of windows 2000 on about 5 computers and reinstalling all software and drivers. All these machines are dells so drivers shouldn?t be too much of an issue and the hardware is good enough to support w2kpro. I am at a loss as to what I should charge for this. What do you think I should charge? What would you charge?

I'm assuming the guy has enough clues that he must provide Win2000 OS or he'll be paying labor+OS.

And don't forget that if the client is business you need to be particularly careful about OS licensing.

 

[Ranger X]

Does this include support? If you're providing them support, don't charge them too low.

 

Charge what you think your time is worth. Also dont come back here starting one of these he is bugging me for tech support again bitch threads. You should alreadyknow that you are opening up a can of worms doing this kind of work.

 

[Cyco]

Beer...lots of it.