how much should I charge

[Stephie_Girl]

A customer wants their pc cleaned out. They only have pics they wanna keep and its xp. All I have to do is reload windows do the standard drivers updates and office. I was thinking 20-30 bucks but dad says 75. What is fair?

 

OH MY GOD!!! Best Buy charges 200 dollars for cleaning up a PC.  You gotta be kidding me that's just a rip off....

[Dave :)]

Definitely not 75. 

[M-ursu]

i would even charge 50€

[Stephie_Girl]

I agree I mean yes places like bestbuy charge 150 but I figured 20 bucks is fine

[IronSoldier]

I do stuff like that for free.

[Villain]

If you want to take advantage of a poor helpless PC user, then yeah sure $75 is a good price. If you want to be modest, then $10-20..

[Volbet]

20-30 sounds reasnable. 75 buck is to much in my opinion. You don't want to rip them off so they won't come again

[CornOnJacob]

I've only done one job for a "customer" so far, but I charge $10 an hour.

 

That way you can't get cheated by having something take longer than you expected.

[sonarctica]

20-30 bucks should be enough, charging more than that is kind of a dickish move

[Kirihuna]

If it's a friend, free.

If it's not a friend, maybe $10 or $15.

If it's someone you hate, $50.

[CwGoh]

30 bucks I guess. I do these stuff for my friends for free.

[Theo]

I'd say 30

[BCMods]

Just charge then an hourly rate of something like $10 and don't arse about.

[Stephie_Girl]

Okay 20 bucks it is. Shes an older lady I used to work with. Xp drivers and updates takes about 3-4 hours so im charging 5/hr. 7 and 8 are so much faster.

[grayperview]

$10 an hour

[Lil Chillbil]

I would charge $30

[grayperview]

If it's a friend, free.

If it's not a friend, maybe $10 or $15.

If it's someone you hate, $50.

 

And you my friend will never get repeat customers, when it comes to doing jobs for people, personal feelings can not come into it.

[WoodenMarker]

And you my friend will never get repeat customers, when it comes to doing jobs for people, personal feelings can not come into it.

Look at this in reverse order. It's $50 normally and friends get friendly discounts.

[Stephie_Girl]

I mean I jus don't like charging more than it's worth.  If it's simple then I say 20 bucks, if it's hardware failure then 20+cost of parts.

[ConfusedDolphin]

At first i thought they just had a dusty PC and wanted it cleaned out (in which case you should charge nothing :) ). Tell him that the base price is $30. When he comes back to collect his PC offer him vinyl siding, if he refuses tell him it is already on the computer and that he is the first person ever to refuse your offer.

[Kirihuna]

And you my friend will never get repeat customers, when it comes to doing jobs for people, personal feelings can not come into it.

Good thing my last sentence was sarcastic and I'm not in the PC business eh?

[Stephie_Girl]

She also wants me to clean the inside (which is harder IMO), but I think somewhere between 20-30 depends on how much effort it takes is def fair.

[Benjio]

At my shop we'd charge over $120 for that type of thing, I'd say ~$50 would be reasonable though.

[obsidian1200]

I'd say quote her a bit higher than that (like say $45, then explain to her it depends on the amount of time it takes so it's just an estimate), just in case things go wrong and it takes you longer to do the job. I don't quote customers assuming the job will go without a hitch, because they rarely do, but when they do and I don't charge the customer as much based on the time, they tend to come back.

[Wats]

The standard $99! You learned those skills! they didn't...