Can anyone tell me how to price my appliance repair jobs.?

Answer 1

The way to price your appliance repair jobs would be to determine what the market will bear.

1) Call a few competitors in your area and ask for quotes on appliance repair jobs. Depending upon your competitor, the prices should vary by firm size and resources.

2) Factor in your costs: labor, time, materials, taxes, transportation (gas), rent, insurance, advertising, etc. I would think that most of your costs are fixed, as opposed to variable like gas.

3) Estimate what those fixed plus variable costs woul total on a per hour basis. This gives you your "break even" on a repair job. The lower your break-even cost, the more you can charge a premium.

4) Estimate a premium that is in line with your firm's profitability and your market competitors. Ask yourself what is more important: market share (gaining customers at the expense of competitors but losing money) or profitability (i.e., cash flow in the immediate term)?

This should be a start - I wish you success in your business endeavor!

Answer 2

The best and easiest way to go would be to call around to other services and see what they charge. Then the hard work begins: what do you bring to the party that would make people choose you over the other services? Figure that out and then see where you think you are among all the people out there right now.

The big companies (Sears) probably will charge more than the smaller guys (you're paying more for the comfort of dealing with Sears) , who probably charge more than the one truck guys like you. But there is a reason for that and if you can figure out something more to offer then you can charge somewhere between the one truck guys and Sears.

Answer 3

Research the competition. Then you can base your price slightly below them (if it still provides an adequate profit margin), or at the same or slightly higher price if you have a reasonable initial customer base and/or will try and market yourself with better service.

In general you should be looking for about a 20-30% profit margin after all overhead is accounted for, unless your work is really specialized...then you could go for much higher (50-100%).

Answer 4

what kind of appliance? is the task simple or hard? dedicated? how long will it take how much are parts, there are several question s you need to ask yourself before trying to price something - can you do it within 10mins price it less - over an hour price it more - it depends on the magnitude and task


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Answer 5

if you are doing the repairs then advertise as handyman for app;iances and you will be unique and offer to come without a service fee and no matter what you charge you will get 90% of the business as most people will say just fix it as they dont want to be bothered shopping around.

Answer 6

Depends on where you live. Charge by the hour. Some, not a lot charge by the half hour. If it takes 35 minutes of labor, charge for 1 hour. 25 minutes charge a half hour for labor. Plus parts.

Answer 7

Ring round a few local business who do the same things and ask them how much they charge, or get a friend to. Then base yours on theirs.

Answer 8

yes. call a company that does the same thing and ask for a quote on fixing"whatever it is" and then decide your price from there. good luck!

Answer 9

Well if the repair mans butt is tight give $50.00 If it is sagging no more that $15.00

Answer 10

get three qoutesand compare