How should I price a basic repair service

1838 Views 8 Replies 6 Participants Last post by goldentrigun, Oct 8, 2012

goldentrigun

Discussion Starter · Sep 19, 2012

I'm not offering my services on here(not yet anyway), but I'm just curious what people would find an acceptable cost for repairing an AEG. Not necessarily upgrading it, but replacing broken parts etc.

Example. I have my teammates gun it stopped working after I think 3-4 years of use. Now this is a base echo-1 gun and all he was really looking to do was to repair. I took it apart and found a broken air nozzle, the wrong cylinder inner barrel combination, the trigger contacts were worn out, and the bucking was worn out. (he had a LOT of feeding issues if you can't tell)

I already quoted him on the parts so he knows that total and he decided to go ahead and replace everything I had mentioned above which totaled out to be $23.50 after shipping.

I was just thinking a flat rate of 10 to replace any parts not including electrical components and gears. Also included with this I would clean all the parts and grease, then teflon where applicable.

To replace electrical components an extra 5 because wiring is a bit more tedious especially with certain guns.

Gears an extra 10 because at least for me to get a good shimming it takes me about an hour to an hour and a half.

Any other work such as AOE, R-hops, flat hops, hop up shimming, and things of that nature I have no idea how to price out though.

Am I not charging enough or should I just leave things the way I have it for the time being.

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Cheese Man

· #2 · Sep 19, 2012

I would suggest looking around at other shops/techs and seeing what the going rate is.

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woogie

· #3 · Sep 19, 2012

I would look at what the parts cost, and then just pick a base amount for the labor.

$50 an hour or so seems to be the going rate at most places.

Or you can always barter as well.... I am a fan of this

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goldentrigun

Discussion Starter · #4 · Sep 19, 2012

$50 an hour is a bit steep for what it is. If I were to guarantee that the gun wouldn't fail over a certain period of time maybe, but due to the way airsoft is and the quality control on most of the parts I would be hard pressed to do any sort of "real" guarantee.

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TheTJ

· #5 · Sep 19, 2012

You could guarantee YOUR work, excluding anything that happens outside of the boundaries of what you actually did.

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newbie

· #6 · Sep 20, 2012

I dont look at an aeg for less than $20, beyond that if the maintinence takes me more than 2 hours I usually go for an additional $10 per hour. All work garunteed. I have spent all summer building other peoples guns

and have made $430.

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woogie

· #7 · Sep 20, 2012

I hadn't thought of a payment like that newbie, that is a really good idea.

Do a base rate for simple things, and if something is going to be more involved it will cost more.

Basic maintenance $20
External Gearbox repairs $15
Internal Gearbox repairs $25
Re-wiring of gearbox $20
With deans +$5
External upgrades $20
Custom work will be discussed and can figure a price out on a case by case basis.

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OneShot-SWAG

· #8 · Oct 8, 2012

My local place charges $35 if it takes less then 2 hours. After that it is a $7 an hour charge plus parts.

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goldentrigun

Discussion Starter · #9 · Oct 8, 2012

woogie said:
I hadn't thought of a payment like that newbie, that is a really good idea.

Do a base rate for simple things, and if something is going to be more involved it will cost more.

Basic maintenance $20
External Gearbox repairs $15
Internal Gearbox repairs $25
Re-wiring of gearbox $20
With deans +$5
External upgrades $20
Custom work will be discussed and can figure a price out on a case by case basis.

I'm probably going to end up using something similar to this.

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