YOUR KILLING THE REPAIR MARKET

[CompWizard]

PREVIOUSLY POSTED "COMPETITION STINKS". I decided to call the owner of the unnamed puter business and asked him why he was tearing down my signs. He had the nerve to tell me that I was killing the repair market by charging flat rates instead of hourly charges except for on-site service. I'm currently making 200 signs. I will saturate this town with em. It gives me a little extra motivation knowing that he scared. I wonder if its already affecting his business. Everyone needs to make money, but I had a customer that told me he charged $75 an hour minimum to replace a 3 1/2 disk drive. Come on thats ridiculous.

[mjc]

Well if he has been the only shop in the area maybe he could stand a little competition. I'd love to make $75/hr for replacing floppy drives, I'd do them all day! I assume he also charges a minimum of 1 hour service for any repair, so that would be a minimum of 4 actual replacements/hr times 8 hrs = 32 drives/day times $75 =$2400/day, yeah, I could live with that.....but since he problably only does one of those a week at those prices I can see why he needs all the customers he can get.....

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[Paleo Pete]

$75 an hour? That's pretty steep, can't do much better than about $40 around here...at those rates I'd be happy to get 4-6 hours a week. That would just about triple my present income, maybe more...

Sounds like he's running scared, get those signs up!

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