@SunnyDays2 wrote:
You don't think you need to prepare for the shop? Or you don't want to take an electronics shop that will likely lead to a demonstration, with an average of 20 minutes time? The $15 the client is paying you *IS* for your prep/report and execution time.
I don't read this as wwin saying he doesn't think he needs to prepare for the shop! I read it that if the shop takes one hour of time for preparation and report, plus the time in store (at least 20 minutes if a demo is offered, as you say), plus drive time (if it's not on the way to someplace else), it's not worth $15. I agree.
A person who has never done the shop has no way to know if those estimated times are accurate or not. If, as BuffaloNY says, it's much easier and less time consuming than the MSC estimates, then $15 is probably a good fee. But how is the OP supposed to know that?
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