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Originally Posted by z3german
But if you do work for someone who approaches you your concern should be cost/skill rather than cost/profit.
If someone comes up to me and asks me to paint their mirrors, the immediate thought is cost of materials + labour I think it would take and how much I think my labour is worth hourly. Hypothetically $50 paint + $12 bucks an hour and it would take maybe 20 hours to get it sanded, primed, sealed, paint, clear cause I am a noob (for the sake of this thread). Round it off, "ill do them for $290"
"But this shop is charging me $200"
"Then do it at the shop, My price is based on how long I think it would take me."
So yeah charging hourly makes no sense, market price is completely relevant to be fair to both consumer and producer. If you feel that you need to
And that price ends up being higher or similar to what a body shop would charge; guess what? Yeah send them to a body shop, your time isnt worth shit if you have no experience, its about the job. Did you do the job well? No? Then do it again. Did you fuck it up so bad that the entire unit needs to be replaced? Too bad eat that cost, you took the job.
It isnt that rare to find in real body shops them having to lose money on a job because their technician fucked up. So why cant you as an amateur accidentally volunteer your time due to a few fuck ups on a job that you accepted money for.
Just to clarify, I am completely fine with people doing work unprofessionally. And I am even more fine with fuck ups due to this, or delays, or unexpected things happening, or unhappy "customers". Its how people decide to price things, what people feel their time is worth, and how it apparently isnt market price related, is what I have an issue with.
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We did mess up the headlight, and we did redo it right away without saying anything except for sorry to the OP because he had to leave his headlight with us again while we redo it.
Yes market price is related if I were to go and advertise my work wanting to make money from a business-like point of view. But if someone comes up to me and asks me how much I would charge if they were to pay me for the work, I would give a price depending on how much time I think I would take myself to do the work. If the market price is lower than my price, then so be it, get it done elsewhere because I am not really looking for the job in the first place. If my price were to be less than $10 an hour due to the market price and my lack of skill/speed to do it the same as professional shops out there, I don't see why I would want to work for that amount of money when I could be doing something else. Which is why again, I was asked for a price, and I gave one judging on the time it would take me personally to do it. If it could be done elsewhere for less time then by all means go for it, I am not trying to sell anything.
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Originally Posted by Graeme S
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