Assembly Charge

[techteen143]

What would you charge to set up a comp?
edit: per hr.

[vass0922]

Is she cute?

[Theophylact]

I would figure it by time, at $50 to $75 an hour. (That's what it would cost to get one repaired.) To get the box set up (assuming HDD, CD-RW, floppy) should run you about an hour if you've been doing this a lot. (I'm a klutz, and nervous to boot, so it takes me more like three.) Getting the operating system and the drivers loaded, about another hour.

edited to fix typo

[Mr. Goodbytes]

Are we talking about setting one up as just assembling what's already built? Or is this a complete build? Also, if I have to explain how each and every feature works, the price skyrockets.

[Wizzard~Of~Ozz]

Sorry, but Mine's in Canadian funds Probably about 150$ tacked on to price of parts&shipping. Should take about 2 hours to set up from scratch to working comp, barring incedent.

[kenyg]

depends - I'm all in for bartering - last year I built one for our little league - and in return my 3 kids played for free ($175) - they came out a little ahead - but it was a fair deal - (one I didn't ask for - they offered)

Also have helped our mechanic numerous times - for free - but I think his 'paybacks' have been extremley generous - to the point where it embarasses me sometimes - but... he won't hear of it.

[nukes]

I normally charge about £30-£40 but it depends. If you might get a favour out of them in the future, keep 'em sweet and do it for free.
Or if you just fancy being nice.

[techteen143]

Completly from scratch... I was thinking about $50-100 US. prob about $50 / hr. I am generious, However it looks like I'm going to need to set everything up including OS and scanner, printer, etc... AND explain how everything works.
Thanx for your opinions.

[Richard Cranium]

Completly from scratch...
$200
w/o lessons !

[Mike]

What if it's for a friend?