How much do you charge for building PC's

[disturbed6dws]

....i've been building pc's as my side job - or a hobby you could say

 

how much do you think is fair to charge someone for building a pc - and i dont mean just making sure all the components work, but being neat about it - treating it like your own so to say

 

i usually charge $50 dollars for the build - with the installation of o/s - and no tweaking - just build and o/s

 

 

 

 

$100 for building it, installing the o/s, tweaking the windows o/s itself and a mild overclock

 

 

 

*Do you think the prices are fair...or am i overcharging/undercharging

[cuoficr]

parts +10%

[disturbed6dws]

regardless of the price of the system ?

[cuoficr]

pretty much, if its just some random web rig/word pros. i charge less. but i usually dont get those, or send them to HP/Compaq. other than that its pretty standard, i have set rates for people that call and say "i want a pc to play xxx game with and some other stuff" same parts, same process every time, if someone wants a rig with specific parts its cost +10%, almost always

[disturbed6dws]

i like that i think ill adopt that idea

[NEOAethyr]

I'd charge $100 if possible.

Otherwise $50.

If it was cheapy, nothign I woudl use, I would charge maybe $20-40.

Those type of pc's are worth a $1 to me, meaning I have a buddy that can get ones like it, for $1, like p3's and such, yardsales...

 

If I started my own business, loan and all...

I'd charge $100 per machine.

No warrenty, but defently checked before shipped.

No os, I can do that, and I don't care lol.

 

When the time came, I could hired buddies, personal buddies, that I could teach.

I would pay them $50 per machine they made.

I would then keep $50 for myself.

 

The money that was paid for the machines would go back into the business.

With the pc business, stuff gets better and cheaper all the time.

Except for certain things, and at certain times.

[shatteredsteel]

40$ Flat rate for builds, add an extra 30$ for case mods, custom lighting, paint, etc...

Businesses seem to be the biggest customers for mods, and they like the flat pricing.

[dab]

$25 for a quick repair, $50-100 for a build, depending on what it's going to be. Friends often get service for free, but do so at the cost of waiting for my leisure time.

 

I can assemble a simple pc in no time, and do this for cheap. For $100 I'd setup the OS, raid, whatever, and spend some time getting a decent, stable, no maintenance overclock out of the cpu and gpu. This might take more time than the $100 is worth, but once prime is running it's no skin off my back so I don't mind.

 

I read Ag post somewhere that he charges like $300 per build, man that's a helluva rate!

[shatteredsteel]

NEO, you'd drop business like nothing, why would they pay you 100$ to assemble a PC when they could go to dell get a warranty (I know their service sucks, but the big w is there), and possibly save quite a bit of money. You have to get your name out before you can set the bar, and that means setting competitive pricing and an image that will stick with the customer.

[red930]

NEO, you'd drop business like nothing, why would they pay you 100$ to assemble a PC when they could go to dell get a warranty (I know their service sucks, but the big w is there), and possibly save quite a bit of money. You have to get your name out before you can set the bar, and that means setting competitive pricing and an image that will stick with the customer.

 

Keep in mind though people aren't coming to guys like us for a cheap computer, they're coming for one thats built locally and can be serviced by someone that could be your neighbor.

 

Generally these rigs are designed to perform as well, which the average Dell isn't.

 

As for me, I'd probably charge ~7% on a basic computer, nothing special done to it. I'd probably go up to as much as 15% for a properly overclocked machine. Watercooling and lights would add more. I'd offer free service on the machine for the first 3 months, I figure if something breaks within that time the part was probably faulty and still under warranty. Anything after that I'd charge hourly to fix it, with perhaps a discount depending on how rediculously good-looking they are.

[disturbed6dws]

NEO, you'd drop business like nothing, why would they pay you 100$ to assemble a PC when they could go to dell get a warranty (I know their service sucks, but the big w is there), and possibly save quite a bit of money. You have to get your name out before you can set the bar, and that means setting competitive pricing and an image that will stick with the customer.

 

 

 

hahaha lol - ....damn, those good looking people get everything for free hehehehehe

[NEOAethyr]

That idea was with a loan, so I could build the best of the best components.

It was not for the avg user.

It was for those folks that baught into the alienware an falcon nw stuff.

 

No warrenty because I'm not gonna pay out of my pocket for user error.

They can pay for it ^^.

I would check the hd's, the media burner's, the video card, the bus and mem, and cpu.

The thing would come with custom drivers, but no os, not unless I could get a big volume liceanse, becuase there is no way in heck I would sell a consumer os, they suck.

 

the case, depends, still looking tis this one that had all 5&1/4 bays all the way down it.

Was black with a clear coat.

Those would be allright cases generically.

 

For peeeps thatwant the best maybe, depends on if they still make decent ones...

There's this japanese company that makes cases, black anodized aluminum, clear caot, in and out of the case.

It was extremely expensive though, I dn the real price in $'s.

I forgot, it's been along time.

Very expensive though.

 

I got access to using this bullet proff fiber glass stuff, I forgot what it was called.

It's the same glass used in hocky rings.

My buddies work said they are up for making cases if I needed one or so(they said they would make one, but making lots, I dn...