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| CalixPapi:
--- Quote from: pbj on April 06, 2015, 11:50:05 am ---"No." Easy as that, friend. --- End quote --- I was trying to be the nice guy before but have found myself more fluent with the word "NO", probably help from my kids. :laugh2: --- Quote from: yotsuya on April 06, 2015, 11:59:13 am --- --- Quote from: pbj on April 06, 2015, 11:52:51 am --- --- Quote from: yotsuya on April 06, 2015, 11:50:36 am ---I just tell people to pay me what they think is fair. --- End quote --- :laugh2: Fool me once.... --- End quote --- Free for family, strangers must pay. Since they know Geek Squad is like $75 an hour, I usually do pretty well. :dunno --- End quote --- Funny thing is my family typically pays me very well. It's others that try to barely pay me at all or try get free services and i refuse to take a check payment as that always comes with strings attached ie wait until this day, under a full moon, after you see a white car then there SHOULD be money in my account. |
| yotsuya:
--- Quote from: CalixPapi on April 06, 2015, 12:18:07 pm --- --- Quote from: pbj on April 06, 2015, 11:50:05 am ---"No." Easy as that, friend. --- End quote --- I was trying to be the nice guy before but have found myself more fluent with the word "NO", probably help from my kids. :laugh2: --- Quote from: yotsuya on April 06, 2015, 11:59:13 am --- --- Quote from: pbj on April 06, 2015, 11:52:51 am --- --- Quote from: yotsuya on April 06, 2015, 11:50:36 am ---I just tell people to pay me what they think is fair. --- End quote --- :laugh2: Fool me once.... --- End quote --- Free for family, strangers must pay. Since they know Geek Squad is like $75 an hour, I usually do pretty well. :dunno --- End quote --- Funny thing is my family typically pays me very well. It's others that try to barely pay me at all or try get free services and i refuse to take a check payment as that always comes with strings attached ie wait until this day, under a full moon, after you see a white car then there SHOULD be money in my account. --- End quote --- I do most of my repairs for people who are retirees (I help a retired teacher, and she refers me to her friends), so I'm not looking to make a buck off of them. Honestly, I'd do it for free but my wife would kill me. Many times, I don't even accept everything they offer because I wouldn't feel right taking $40 for fixing a single setting in Outlook. Having said that, if I did a full Windows restore or something and a person offered me $10, I'd never do work for them again. |
| behrmr:
This is exactly why I made a point of telling everyone that I do not fix any old computers or do upgrades to anything older than 5 years. This was an epiphany I had while fixing my nephews. I was sitting on the edge of his bed in the house alone working on a repurposed corporate pc that was a piece of junk. So now Instead I offer to help configure something new. People who know little about computers seem to have very big expectations of those who do. |
| CalixPapi:
--- Quote from: yotsuya on April 06, 2015, 12:24:03 pm --- --- Quote from: CalixPapi on April 06, 2015, 12:18:07 pm --- --- Quote from: pbj on April 06, 2015, 11:50:05 am ---"No." Easy as that, friend. --- End quote --- I was trying to be the nice guy before but have found myself more fluent with the word "NO", probably help from my kids. :laugh2: --- Quote from: yotsuya on April 06, 2015, 11:59:13 am --- --- Quote from: pbj on April 06, 2015, 11:52:51 am --- --- Quote from: yotsuya on April 06, 2015, 11:50:36 am ---I just tell people to pay me what they think is fair. --- End quote --- :laugh2: Fool me once.... --- End quote --- Free for family, strangers must pay. Since they know Geek Squad is like $75 an hour, I usually do pretty well. :dunno --- End quote --- Funny thing is my family typically pays me very well. It's others that try to barely pay me at all or try get free services and i refuse to take a check payment as that always comes with strings attached ie wait until this day, under a full moon, after you see a white car then there SHOULD be money in my account. --- End quote --- I do most of my repairs for people who are retirees (I help a retired teacher, and she refers me to her friends), so I'm not looking to make a buck off of them. Honestly, I'd do it for free but my wife would kill me. Many times, I don't even accept everything they offer because I wouldn't feel right taking $40 for fixing a single setting in Outlook. Having said that, if I did a full Windows restore or something and a person offered me $10, I'd never do work for them again. --- End quote --- I take time out to sit with older family members and teach them a few things on their iPhones and Androids just because nobody else will and they don't utilize their devices. I go to my fiancees aunt's house and hold a "class" every once in awhile to teach them their computer and phone. It helps them a lot and keeps me practicing. --- Quote from: behrmr on April 06, 2015, 12:24:31 pm ---This is exactly why I made a point of telling everyone that I do not fix any old computers or do upgrades to anything older than 5 years. This was an epiphany I had while fixing my nephews. I was sitting on the edge of his bed in the house alone working on a repurposed corporate pc that was a piece of junk. So now Instead I offer to help configure something new. People who know little about computers seem to have very big expectations of those who do. --- End quote --- I have put a ban on XP machines. No Vista. Sometimes I will still take a look at them just to be nice but 98% of the time it is a no. My great uncle recently brought me his machine because of a virus and apparently the last guy that worked on his system installed a custom W7 image and stole his video card. Don't know who would be that bold to take a major component of a custom build but unfortunately my uncle wasn't as computer savy to realize what was missing, he was just confused when he got it back and had an extra cord in his hand that didnt match up with the pc and had to find a new cord to plug in his monitor. |
| SNAAKE:
give your price and dont negotiate. thats how I run my xbox business. what I charge is more than fair. don't like it then go elsewhere...which is nowhere :cheers: |
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