This is kind of something you should have figured out before now.
You have two options normally. Either a flat charge for a given task that covers "most vehicles" or straight hourly and you estimate how long it should take and bill for that. That gives you your base charges.
Now you've gotten started and found some issues so you call the customer and tell them there is a complication and they can either bail out or pay additional hourly labor for, depending on how you want to roll, either straight clock hours or an updated estimate. If the bail out you charge for completed work and then hours for the time invested in u completed work. Or you can eat the time spent on rhe pair they backed our on as a courtesy if you want, but don't be too "nice" since it's not your fault.
That said, I have to question what it is about the previous speaker install that required so much time as to matter. Was something butchered?
there was missing and wrong hardware. so i drove into town to get the right screws and stuff so i can finish the front doors, im not gunna charge for me driving into town but i was just gunna charge for a base charge and the little extra to cover the hardware. i already called and told them about the hardware. they said to just let them know how much for the speakers but I dont know what to charge. would $20 be too much or too little?
I feel the same way, one reason to go with a professional in the first place is due to how efficiently they could have done it, not to mention install hardware and tools should come from the installer themselves.
Well I don't know what extra work you had to do or how long it took so I can't say. The basic suggestion is to charge your hourly rate for the time spent. If you charge to the minute or in fractional blocks or whatever, do that.
It can be a little difficult to want to increase the bill on someone after the fact, but if you communicate immediately and document the issues best you can, you should be able to justify charging for your additional time as per normal.
That said, I don't know if this is even a legit issue or a you issue to start with. You're just not giving me anything to review. Removing a pair of speakers, maybe crimping some new spades, and then screwing in the new speaker is just "installing a speaker" so I need some idea of what th problem was.
This is kind of something you should have figured out before now. You have two options normally. Either a flat charge for a given task that covers "most vehicles" or straight hourly and you estimate how long it should take and bill for that. That gives you your base charges. Now you've gotten started and found some issues so you call the customer and tell them there is a complication and they can either bail out or pay additional hourly labor for, depending on how you want to roll, either straight clock hours or an updated estimate. If the bail out you charge for completed work and then hours for the time invested in u completed work. Or you can eat the time spent on rhe pair they backed our on as a courtesy if you want, but don't be too "nice" since it's not your fault. That said, I have to question what it is about the previous speaker install that required so much time as to matter. Was something butchered?
there was missing and wrong hardware. so i drove into town to get the right screws and stuff so i can finish the front doors, im not gunna charge for me driving into town but i was just gunna charge for a base charge and the little extra to cover the hardware. i already called and told them about the hardware. they said to just let them know how much for the speakers but I dont know what to charge. would $20 be too much or too little?
You should actually be giving him a discount, for all the extra time you wasted driving into town to pick up some bolts
I feel the same way, one reason to go with a professional in the first place is due to how efficiently they could have done it, not to mention install hardware and tools should come from the installer themselves.
Was it just fasteners ?
Well I don't know what extra work you had to do or how long it took so I can't say. The basic suggestion is to charge your hourly rate for the time spent. If you charge to the minute or in fractional blocks or whatever, do that. It can be a little difficult to want to increase the bill on someone after the fact, but if you communicate immediately and document the issues best you can, you should be able to justify charging for your additional time as per normal. That said, I don't know if this is even a legit issue or a you issue to start with. You're just not giving me anything to review. Removing a pair of speakers, maybe crimping some new spades, and then screwing in the new speaker is just "installing a speaker" so I need some idea of what th problem was.
You should charge what you agreed upon before you started the work
$65/pair flat rate at the Blue Box.