On April 25, 2011 at 12:43, avgenius1 said...
And this is why you are a non-pro DIY... "and for less than $50". The actual cost would be much greater than $50 once you figure in the time it takes to order, ship, postpone the job, piss off the client, more install time that has to be eaten, rolling a truck to a job again, etc.
This is somehow a mystery to some end users/DIY guys. They forget how much time they spend tinkering because they don't realize that this industry is work to those of us who do it and not just a fun thing we do on the weekends whenever we feel like doing it.
A $50 part is not $50.
Its $50+shipping
Plus the employee required to engineer the system and research the available products and choose the part.
Plus the employee required to order and receive it.
Plus the vehicle required to drive out to the clients home.
Plus the employee required to drive the vehicle and install the part.
And that all assumes that it works when you get it there, and a day later and a week later and so on and so forth hoping that you dont have to roll a truck to uninstall it, send it back in for replacement, wait for the replacement, roll a truck back to reinstall it and play this game again.
The "bending over" of the client on price for hardware with margin used to cover that expense. It doesn't anymore. So now we sit here playing Russian roulette as we engineer systems wondering what company isn't being honest about their new products this time around.
I for one cant wait until all hardware is available at ebay and amazon and we just bill hourly for everything we do.
