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[E.E.I]

Hello Lads and lady's

I am trying to break into the commercial sector and I have been offered a good opertunity for a conract to maintain a chain of shops,

now im looking for advice if I'm on the right route for prices

i was thinking £60 call out then £30 per hour

my domestic rates are slightly cheaper but as its commercial work I don't want to sell myself short or be too expensive!

do these figures look about right? Or am I way off?

the work will be London and the South east

thanks in advance

T

 

[Octopus]

Do you charge VAT?

 

[E.E.I]

No not VAT registered atm,

 

[Octopus]

How do you expect to cover all the travelling time AND associated costs?

 

[E.E.I]

That is something I still need to work out, it's still early stages at the minute, just want to be certain about labour rates

 

[wymondhamcables]

So each time you attend a store you will be charging 90:00 minimum ?,

 

[E.E.I]

No £60 for the first hour upto 2hrs,

guys im not trying to pull a fast one here and I haven't worked out the fine details yet I'm just looking for people who run companies that work in this sector to tell me if I'm far of the mark or not for labour costs. I'm not looking for anyone to reveal there prices

i think the prices I've stated seem pretty fair

 

[Octopus]

No £60 for the first hour upto 2hrs,

guys im not trying to pull a fast one here and I haven't worked out the fine details yet I'm just looking for people who run companies that work in this sector to tell me if I'm far of the mark or not for labour costs. I'm not looking for anyone to reveal there prices

i think the prices I've stated seem pretty fair

Hum

So you are based in Hemel Hampstead and you get a call to Maidstone - then Brighton - you could be on the road for 5 hours easy and only do 2 hours work?

 

[davesparks]

No £60 for the first hour upto 2hrs,

Eh what? Your first hour lasts for two hours?

 

[GMES]

Most people charge and initial call out for say the 1st hour and then their hourly rate after the 1st hour, but that would only be within say a 5 mile radius then after that you need to be charging travel and Mileage otherwise you are going to be a busy fool.

 

[E.E.I]

Ok what's your advice

 

[Guest77]

]ok what's your advice[/b]

think again

 

[GMES]

Ok what's your advice

Only you can work out what is the right rate for you and your business, not many members are going to divulge their charges on an open forum.

 

[E.E.I]

So GMES do you think I should change rates defending on distance from office or charge a fixed call out fee and then hourly rate. I get what you are saying about the mile radius, I wouldn't travel further than ten miles on my domestic work for a call out unless a regular customer

 

[GMES]

think again

Hey up swampy where you been, eating villagers!!!!!!!

 

[Guest77]

Hey up swampy where you been, eating villagers!!!!!!!

Been busy my good friend, Have been working lots of overtime and also been looking at motorhomes so I can enjoy my early retirement, Me and the wife are at the NEC in a couple of weeks looking at the motorhomes, I have decided work is now second to enjoying myself.

 

[E.E.I]

Well I guess it's only ever trial and error, if it works great if it doesn't back to the drawing board

 

[GMES]

I charge a set callout fee within my local area to get me there then start charging my hourly rate, if I have to travel more than 10 miles I charge my hourly rate for travel + mileage, you have to remeber while your sat in your van you can't be charging your hourly rate elsewhere.

 

[GMES]

It should also be noted I am Industrial so normally the price comes 2nd to the customer when they are losing sometimes thousands because a line is down or a department.

 

[GMES]

Mike Good to hear you are thinking about putting you and the wife first, you've put your time in fella so now it's time to get a bit back., I was fancyinga motor home for a while but I've got my eye on a Range Rover so it may change lol.