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Pricing feedback thread
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Pricing feedback thread
Maybe there’s already a place for this but someone wants an old sentimental guitar modified with a Floyd rose and I haven’t done one of those in forever. Thinking back to when I was younger in the trade and stuff like this came up I would’ve loved to have a place to go where helpful repair folks hangout who might help me to avoid underbidding the hell out of a job. I used to bid everything low because I was thinking about the client and not wanting to overcharge… which I know now is a complete bullshit backwards way to think about it.
But moving forward: was thinking around $500 labor to route, install and setup a Floyd. What would you charge?
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You have a sense of how long it takes you ?
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I’d say an afternoon getting the templates located correctly, routing and installing then futzin’ with the setup for at least an hour maybe more. So maybe 4-5 hours altogether.
I guess this one bothered me cuz the instrument is probably worth about $500. So parts and labor plus they want fretwork means a bill upwards of a grand. But you know… I already bid it at these numbers they can make that decision.
I have some anxiety now that my prices are up that people will go find and torture the next poor looth till they learn that person learns the hard way. I want people to not have that option and not necessarily for my own benefit. More because I don’t want anyone to have to go through what I’ve gone through with this stuff
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I while back I quit bidding things I didn’t really want to do so high people wouldn’t get the work done. Half of the time they called my bluff and I was stuck with a job I didn’t want to do. Much of the time I realized, halfway into the project, that the project was still underbid even though it was a crazy amount of money for the instrument.
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Yikes. I was thinking that might be the case here if they end up bringing it in. Project guitars are always a PITA
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And by “bid” I mean I gave him a ballpark estimate in an email that I hope is high so he thinks realistically before bringing it to me.
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I have a process for determining the answer to this question. Assuming its a job I’m at all interested in, I think about how long it will take me, then I add 2-3 hours because that is how much extra time most jobs tend to take me. Then I multiply it by my hourly rate and add material cost for the final tally. If its a really big PITA job then I might bid a few of those hours at my ovetime rate which is 50% higher than my standard. Currently both rates are respectively $100/hour and $150/hour. Check out he articles I just added to the download section of this forum for more on this topic.
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Can confirm this is in my top 5 dumbest jobs ever taken on… at least in recent memory.
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