Receiving calls from customers.

Supply and demand, if there were that many people willing to do it for cheap then prices would come down.
 
That was my point. Our company has £2.5m of investment and charges £31.75 p/h with skilled welder/fabricators employed.

That's why I would never pay £35 for a computer repair man with a one room office and £25 of capital investment.

ANd as I said, we make 18% profit even with our capital investment so why does a computer repair man deservce to make 50%+ profit?
 
Why are you continually trying to explain to us why people pay huddy? I don't beleive he said in his OP 'Please tell me why I have customers'.

He asked us what people are thinking when they refuse his offer of £35 an hour. We are answering that. If everyone thought £35 an hour was amazing this thread wouldnt exist.
 
I think that's waaayyy off the truth loads of my friends (who aren't tech savy) pop into purple shirt world and pickup an internal graphics card, hard disk, nic etc and install it themselves using just the insturctions

many of my friend who arent tech savvy go down to B&Q and buy a light switch or cover and fit it just using the instructions.

doesnt stop people paying for an electrician to do the same job though
 
Andy, can you stop with the house rewire thing. A total rewire of a house is a skilled job and requires an entire van full of tools. I have recently re-wired a house of mine with the help of a qualified electrician, it took 2 weeks and probably £5000 worth of tools & materials.
 
Another vote being shocked at 35 PPH, I'd charge about 20 for the first hour and 12 for any more hours. How the hell you think £35 is a decent price I have no idea

Right, so say an average £17 an hour. You work 8 hours a day, for 20 days a month, so your income is £2720 a month.

Take off tax, rent, rates, electricity, mobile phone bills, transport (if you're doing callouts), insurance, marketing....not really left with much now.

...and thats assuming that you've got 8 hours a work a day, ie you're constantly fully booked up.

Sorry, thats not a sustainable business model, unless you're running it out of your bedroom or as a sideline, which the OP clearly isn't.
 
[TW]Fox;12979891 said:
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Most of us here were doing complete PC rebuilds at the age of 13 instead of doing our homework. ... easy tasks which do not require any specialist training, any certification, or indeed anything beyond an interest in computers and some common sense. The same cannot be said of many other trades.
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I find it odd at just how hypocritical your being here. In another thread you were blatantly saying the opposite of this, and for the life of me I can't figure out why, other than to just to troll.

BTW I agree that it's a monkeys job, but to someone like my father it isn't and he'd gladly pay for someone to do stuff like this. He has me mind you, so he doesn't have to ;)
 
[TW]Fox;12979947 said:
Why are you continually trying to explain to us why people pay huddy? I don't beleive he said in his OP 'Please tell me why I have customers'.

He asked us what people are thinking when they refuse his offer of £35 an hour. We are answering that. If everyone thought £35 an hour was amazing this thread wouldnt exist.

post this thread on a forum where people dont have a clue about computers and they WILL think £35 is amazing. hell theyd think 50 was amazing to stop them having to buy a new pc for 500 quid or so
 
Has Admiral Huddy dipped out of this? He wants to know what goes through peoples minds yet if he's teenage bedroom hobbyist why would he be surprised that people don't want to pay him £35 per hour? If he's a kosher buisness then he should have proper premises if he wants to charge the "going rate".
 
Fixing machines on the side, I tend to charge about £20/£30 for a reinstall of an OS and some backups. Anything more complicated and the price goes up. It takes very little time sat at a machine that someone wants wiping, even if it's running for a while.

I think £35 seems a bit steep, but then I don't really know what the going rates are. Maybe £35 to diagnose and do simple fixes, then more if it's a nightmare or takes longer.
 
I find it odd at just how hypocritical your being here. In another thread you were blatantly saying the opposite of this, and for the life of me I can't figure out why, other than to just to troll.

If you mean the system builder thread I was disagreeing with the use of the term 'monkey'. An unskilled labourer is NOT a monkey, this is insulting and un-neccesary whereas unskilled/skilled labour are recognised terms.
 
You try testing a circuit and RCD resistances with a small toolkit and multimeter and signing off a part P certificate :D

didnt say it would meet regualtions :p

and those regulations are the difference between a 35 p/h pc repair callout and a 70 p/h electrician callout
 
I have had a little thought on this and i have come to the conclusion that if you start them from an early age you could actually teach a monkey to repair a PC i could be wrong tho :D

Seriously tho it's horses for courses in any trade.

The one eyed man is king in the land of the blind.
 
post this thread on a forum where people dont have a clue about computers and they WILL think £35 is amazing.

Correct, I agree. And these people wont then hang up on Huddy. So they are not the people this thread is discussing, are they?

He asked us, ONCE AGAIN, 'What are these people thinking'.

The answer is, these people are thinking 'Thats quite a lot of money'
 
Has Admiral Huddy dipped out of this? He wants to know what goes through peoples minds yet if he's teenage bedroom hobbyist why would he be surprised that people don't want to pay him £35 per hour? If he's a kosher buisness then he should have proper premises if he wants to charge the "going rate".

In fairness if you clicked on his signature and read his website, you'd quickly find out he's a chap in his 40's who's been in the IT industry for quite some time.
 
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