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| Malenko:
even faster than that is the $125 i5 with 4GB of RAM that TKWarrior is selling, with a fresh valid Win7 license installed. |
| lilshawn:
--- Quote from: Generic Eric on April 07, 2015, 01:01:43 pm ---Spec me a $200 PC. --- End quote --- http://pcpartpicker.com/p/VRnNjX can i keep the extra 53 bucks? |
| dkersten:
I charge family the most. In my case they can afford it and this prevents them from calling me 20 times a week asking stupid questions and asking me to spend my Saturdays at their house trying to make their computers run faster. Since I work for my family business and my dad is the CEO, he gets free tech support, but the calls aren't TOO bad simply because he knows exactly how many hours I work already. For close friends, tech support is mostly free, but again these are close friends and they know how disrespectful it is to ask for constant tech support. For others, I either decline or tell them to pay what they think it is worth. I have always been overpaid this way because they already know what it costs for GeekSquad to come out and help them. There is one exception to all of this. If the person I am helping does something for a living that is useful to me, I will fix computers and do support for them for free, but then when I need their services I also expect them for free. It is expected and it works out in the end. I do a lot of home renovation and the such, and I have saved thousands of dollars having things I can't (or won't) do myself for free or for a steep discount. When it comes to computer repair, it more or less follows the rules of Karma.. the more you help others, the more that will come back around later. |
| Connorsdad:
It also seems that if you're 'The computer guy' people think that they don't need to ask you to help them, it's a case of 'you're the one that can sort this for me, I'll drop my laptop/desktop/$h!theap in tomorrow'. Like an idiot I didn't charge folk but word got around regarding my love of JD whisky, at one point I had around 12 litre bottles of the stuff! I finally nipped it in the bud as my time was no longer my own :( Any other skill/trade, people will happily pay a decent amount and appreciate what you have done, whereas fixing someone's pc is seen as a trivial 5 minute job. |
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