| rendo said: Obviously you don't understand. I'm aware it takes TIME to do these things. However, the amount of ACTUAL labour involved isn't 2 hours. It's 30 minutes. You run the scan, you walk away. You're not doing anything, the program is. I have standards and ethics when it comes to charging people for labour. I charge for the amount of time I NEEDED to fix it. While those scans are running, I work on something else and put REAL time into it, not made up time to rip people off. |
It isn't just that entroper. Each minute you spend at one place is another minute you could be at another. For instance If I was a tech and someone arranged for me to head over and build them a PC from scratch and it took me 2 hours to get it down with OS install and program installation and that was 1.5 hours labor you still charge 2 hours because you may have had 2 virus removals during that time you could not do.
In my profession I charge by the time it takes for the PC to get the job done or the amount of time I have to sit around and do nothing. Whenever I get called to go on the road I charge 8 hours a day minimum even if I do absolutely nothing and order room service all day because I am currently tied up.
So even if you were to charge a set price for spyware/virus removal you would still charge more than the minimum as a good not shady business practice. You say it is 30 minutes actually labor I would say charge 1.5 hours work for it at $35 an hour that is $50. One job may take you lesss time than you charge and another job may take you a lot more time than you charge and it should all balance out. Which is fair especially for on site and on top of that if you were to do it in your spare time like me that means 2 hours of not going out doing anything just to make sure it runs fine after you are done. I don't charge friends but I do charge friends of friends. It can get pretty cumbersome especially if only do it on the side.
BTW Best Buy charges I do charges $299/hour for virus and spyware removal if you bring it in and $349/hour for on site.
