How much would you charge someone if you built a computer for them?

total cost of the components, plus whatever you feel like charging them per hour it took to build it
 
Depends how close the person is. close friends/ family something like a few crate, others will depend on how much hassle the build was.
 
It's a mate so i don't wanna charge too much, but i am proper skint at the moment. I imagine he'll order all the parts after i tell him what to get, then he'll drop them off at mine for me to build it for him.

I might just charge him to pay for my night out tonight lol.
 
i personally find it hard to ask a friend for cash, i;d rather ask him to pay for a night out or dinner or something :)
 
Swings and roundabouts I say (you build him a rig at some stage maybe he can return the favour)but if you are brassic then a few bevvies is fair.
 
I do it for friends for free... It's nice to be nice, even if you are skint. Morals is a nice thing to have.

For customers, £60 flat rate. For the average non watercooled rig.
 
Components plus a pint at most! It's like grown up lego so I always offer to do it :) (even the odd bit of maintanence now and then too)
 
I've never charged a friend or family member for building a PC. Once or twice I've taken the opportunity to sell them my old gfx card or RAM so I can upgrade, but always made sure they paid a fair price. On other occasions, I've even thrown in an old HDD, cheap gfx card or spare stick of RAM I had lying around for free.

It would feel wrong charging a mate for an hour or so of fairly easy work. I like to put the stuff together while they're there anyway, and chat about stuff whilst doing it, so it's never a chore in my experience.

If it wasn't a friend, though, or a friend asked me to build for a friend of theirs, I'd probably ask for £25 or so since it would probably take around an hour.
 
For friends/family I'd do it for a sammich and a pint. Maybe £20 for half a day or something,along those lines.

For a friend of a friend who was willing to pay, I'd probably charge about £30. I can't really see it taking long...

Sitting down working out what they want and speciing them a system... 1 hour
Building and configuring windows etc... 1-2 hours
double checking stability. 1 hour+ some instructions of things to try overnight. If it fails get back to me and I'll try and sort it out.

So 3-4 hours. Yeah 30 seems fine, wouldn't do it as a business mind, but if a mate knew a guy who needs a favour or something.

Also would refund to charge over about 5-10% of total cost...

kd
 
i make enough cash for myself, so dont really charge my friends for builds. having said that I rarely have much free time and builds can consume a lot of time espeically performance rigs, I changed my mobo cpu and ram, and mounting the h50 cooler and stuff took a while, plus there's always something that goes wrong which takes ages to troubleshoot. So I always turn down requests from mates because I dont want to get bogged down.

If its a nice cheap build though like a basic one dual core etc.. I'd get in because those time a lot less time, also I'm always challenging myself to see how cheap I can buid a rig. I build a complete dual core rig for £100 using second hand parts which was nice (case, psu, hard drive included)
 
I've lost count of the number of times friends n family have asked me to look at their pc laptop or mac.. I'll only ever charge for components. But you do get some appreciative people who will get you something for doing it... Bottle of Smirnoff vodka the last time..
 
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