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How much do you charge to build a PC for someone?

Just out of interest.

£10? If you break anything, or anything fails after warranty, then you have to take it out your own pocket. You'd make a loss, or at least that's how an accountant looks at it, and its a very sensible way to look at it.

If you waste a few hours for just £10 that's gr8. I once made the mistake of building a PC for someone for just £20. I was making £40, but I thought I'd be kind and get him a better CPU. Him and his complete noobness in the use of a PC has wasted me many an hour.

I've never actually made a PC for someone else yet.

But if I was going to go ahead and do it, I'd calculate the price of the components and just charge something minimal like £10 for labour.

I mean, come on, it'll be stupid to charge anymore.

what's your problem?

maybe you should check out www.thescaryguy.com, im sure you are the exact person that he is trying to remove from our world.

Incase your simple mind can't grasp the phrase "just out of interest", i can build my own PC thanks, just i ws interested how much people would charge for one.

But, to give you a hint, I make anywhere from £50 - 100.

Its a secret, but if you tell me what sort of PC you would like, I can give ya a quote? You get a 1 Year warranty, inc Parts and Labour, plus Watever the warranty on the parts is.

£100 for labour?!?

My PC shop does it for £50 and they give you full aftersales support.

i would charge £50 for building a basic PC (ie: no fancy sound sound sockets at front and no specific motherboards etc)

£100 if you choose everything you wanted

thats labour the cost of parts goes on top.

Look at what you're going to build, compare it to the price if it was to be pre-bought and come to a reasonable decision on what you think's fair.

Take into account that you're gonna have to promise to help them if anything goes wrong seeing as you made it.

How much do you charge to build a PC for someone?

Just out of interest.