Shocked by peoples reluctance to spend relatively small amounts on a bike.

[cd365]

It was a fantastic deal, even 10 years ago what you did was worth at least twice what you charged. I can't believe they moaned.
Even then I don't remember being able to get a developer in for a hundred a day!

 

[lesley_x]

I'm a dentist so you can imagine the comments I get about cost. £6 for a filling on the NHS? Considering I give 50% of that to my boss for materials then pay tax I'm left with roughly £2 for a basic filling.

And I studied 5 years at university for this! What a mug!

 

[ianrauk]

I'm a dentist so you can imagine the comments I get about cost. £6 for a filling on the NHS? Considering I give 50% of that to my boss for materials then pay tax I'm left with roughly £2 for a basic filling.

And I studied 5 years at university for this! What a mug!

Go private.

 

[lesley_x]

Go private.

Haven't seen one private job in my area for years! People just can't afford it. My colleague works in a private practice part time and she is making no money because people won't pay anymore.

 

[ianrauk]

Haven't seen one private job in my area for years! People just can't afford it. My colleague works in a private practice part time and she is making no money because people won't pay anymore.

Move to SE Englandshire........
You need middle class....

 

[SpokeyDokey]

I'm a dentist so you can imagine the comments I get about cost. £6 for a filling on the NHS? Considering I give 50% of that to my boss for materials then pay tax I'm left with roughly £2 for a basic filling.

And I studied 5 years at university for this! What a mug!

Help me understand please. Dentistry appears to me to be a pretty well paid occupation.

 

[ayceejay]

As a landscape designer I was sometimes invited into a clients home, for me it was a good indication of taste, and I quickly learned that money and taste are not related at all.
To cut my diatribe really short if it appears to be desirable for whatever reason then people will pay extraordinary amounts of money for it.
"A car sir, you want to buy a car?"
"We have a Volt that is environmentally friendly, you might even say organic at £16000.00"
"Jeez that's a lot of money"
"Well then we have a Skoda at slightly less"
"What about that sleek black one with the chrome grille?"
"Oh the Bentley you mean, that comes in at £250000.00 after discount." gulp.
"And if I pay cash what's your best price?"

 

[Saluki]

I do all my own bike repairs, car servicing/repairs, decorating, nail clipping and hair cutting. How much should I be paying myself?

£30 per hour, minimum Unless you feel like giving yourself a payrise and then the sky is the limit

 

[pplpilot]

I'm a software engineer for the manufacturing industry. I have clients that spend upwards of 0.5m sometimes in excess of 1.5m on machine tools and nearly faint when we quote them £20k for software to actually make them work! 9/10 the same people have 100k worth of car in the 'directors' parking space that is loosing them money but begrudge 20k for something that will make them money. Mental.

 

[ColinJ]

I once asked a friend if he would pay me £100 of every extra £500 of profit that I brought into his business (by promoting it online) but he refused point blank on the grounds that he "would be the one doing all the hard work"!

I thought it was a very strange way of looking at it; if I could give my friends £100 for every £400 that they helped me earn, then I would jump at the chance!

 

[EltonFrog]

I am occiasionly asked when I quote a price, lets say £150.00 for example "is that your best price?" My reply is always, " no I have a better price, it's £175.00. Whatever I quote it's always £25.00 more than the original quote if they ask for a better price.

Shuts them up quick.

 

[screenman]

I once asked a friend if he would pay me £100 of every extra £500 of profit that I brought into his business (by promoting it online) but he refused point blank on the grounds that he "would be the one doing all the hard work"!

I thought it was a very strange way of looking at it; if I could give my friends £100 for every £400 that they helped me earn, then I would jump at the chance!

You got a deal, when can you start?

One part of my business is PDR, for this I can often charge £45 for 10 minutes works, I often get customer give me a tip on top. As one famous comedian nearly said, it is how you sell em!

 

[EltonFrog]

I meant to add, never ever sound apologetic or defensive of your fees or quotes. Your price is your price, never discount, unless you are getting something in return. ( I have been known to discount slightly on my original quoted price in lieu of doing slightly less hours, but it's a very rare practice) never ever provide your services free of charge. Ever.

 

[screenman]

Dscount! go wash your mouth out, a very dirty word.

As a trades person if anyone asks for a discount I will not give one, if I did my heart and soul would not be in the job. I do however always offer a fair and honest price for each job, based on many factors.

 

[ColinJ]

You got a deal, when can you start?

The problem is - how to prove how much extra profit has been made! With my friend, it would have been easy - he had just told me that bookings were only running at 50%, so if I had done something to get them to (say) 80%, I would have considered my 20% to be 20% of the extra 30% takings since he had already covered his fixed costs in his original 50%.

One part of my business is PDR, for this I can often charge £45 for 10 minutes works, I often get customer give me a tip on top. As one famous comedian nearly said, it is how you sell em!

What does PDR mean? (I looked the term up here but there are loads of variations!)