How much do you guys/gals charge to help people with their computers?

[CoolTech]

How much do you guys/gals charge to help people with their computers?

 

[minendo]

usually dont charge, but i usually get beer or dinner in return. what else could a college guy ask for from his broke college friends

 

[Dragnov]

Nothing. As long as they are nice and grateful.

 

[Modeps]

zero, unless I dont know the person.

 

[Way Cool Jr.]

If it is a freind, nothing. If I don't know them, then it depends on what I am doing and how long it will take.

 

[ravanux]

it is usually dependent on how stupid they are and how much money they have.

 

[ndee]

for friends nothing, but as someone said, I'll get a drink or something in return.

 

[monk3y]

I usually don't help people with their computers, but if I do, it's always free of charge.

 

[Mitzi]

If possible I will try to get out of helping them out (in my experience once you fix something for someone, they will forever be at your door). If I do end up helping them and the job is easy/quick I usually charge about £10.

 

[myputer]

I don't charge, but actually I am usually no help either!

 

[batgeek]

4 pack of Guiness

 

[Priit]

Linux/Unix & hardware support for friends: free
Windoze tech support: 2-4 beers
Windoze reinstall: 10 beers

 

[minendo]

<< Linux/Unix & hardware support for friends: free
Windoze tech support: 2-4 beers
Windoze reinstall: 10 beers >>


windoze reinstall = hard liquor

 

[Modeps]

<<

<< Linux/Unix & hardware support for friends: free
Windoze tech support: 2-4 beers
Windoze reinstall: 10 beers >>


windoze reinstall = hard liquor >>


mmmhardlickher.

 

[Priit]

<< windoze reinstall = hard liquor >>



Used to ask a bottle of brandy for that, too, but currently I'm trying hard to lower my drinking habits...

 

[Geekbabe]

Friends/family- cook me dinner or buy me a new dvd

all others- $50 onsite service fee and $50 per hour with 2 hr minimum,service fee is non-refundable if you cancel with less than 24 hrs notice

in house rates -vary depending on your issue

Telephone support-$20 per incident/issue

 

[jkersenbr]

For friends (repair/help): free -well at least no cash, food accepted - got freshbaked brownies for my last one
For friends (hardware purchase/replacement): Cost of hardware

For others (repair/help): $10/hr
For others (hardware purchase/replacement): 10% markup on parts, $10 per hour

If it's not in my town, I'll charge something for mileage but haven't had to yet.

When selling full systems, I normally just include the cost of parts + 10% markup. Now if the customer wants something fancy like a full install and config of a W2K/98 dual boot, then I'll charge something for the extra time.

 

[CurtOien]

Nothing.

 

[Mucman]

$50/hour... before I started charging that much I got phone calls up the ying yang. Now people think twice about asking me stupid questions. Some people still go through with the $50/hr service though. I will happily oblige if they are going to pay that. I used to have 20 or so people who would call me on a regular basis now it's mostly friend and family... I don't to help them anymore, but there isn't much I can do there.

 

[BlackOmen]

I usually get all I can drink while I'm there. If it's long enough that we get hungry, I usually end up getting some free pizza. Can't complain about that.

 

[Ornery]

How much do you charge to help people with anything? It ain't particularly helpful to charge 'em anything at all, is it? :disgust:

 

[Jerboy]

<< How much do you charge to help people with anything? It ain't particularly helpful to charge 'em anything at all, is it? :disgust: >>



I help them hoping they'd help me in return on something else.

 

[aiex]

Friends = nothing (a few drinks are usally appreciated though), i don't like to charge friends because then when it goes wrong again i get the blame and people say well i paid you to do a job and it isn't working again (usally because they have done somthing stupid though)

Other people = depends how rich they look, usally no more then £50, but i might offer to take their old hardwear off there hands or somthing like that in return if buying a new system

Alex

 

[olds]

$0.00, they buy the parts or reimburse. I was suprised last time I worked on a friends machine. She had an old P133 she wanted to give her daughter/grandkids for a word processor/browser combo. I figured the kids needed a machine so I helped out. The friend gave me a $50.00 certificate to a nice restraunt.

 

[fitzhue]

I've never actually came out and said right upfront, im charging you so and so dollars to fix your computer. I just fix it to the best of my abilities (one time a hard drive died) and I accept whatever they give me in return. One time it was a dinner, another it was $40.