December 24th, 2018, 3:24
LarrySabo wrote:helpdisc wrote:so you assume you can always order right donor over ebay?
In many cases you can not know untill you try.
No, I never assumed (nor said) that. That just happens to be where I get any drives I can't get locally or don't have in my inventory. And I know that many cross-family heads will still work but trial and error can get expensive, especially if I damage some heads in the attempt.
September 27th, 2019, 19:16
einstein9 wrote:- Min = 100$ (never less)
- Non-working-client-drives are retained unless they pay extra
- This helps accumulate stock of good (free) donors...
- 'no profit' is okay ...
- customers are winey b***ches no matter what miracle you do.
September 27th, 2019, 19:21
einstein9 wrote:
start SHARING what you have with others...
...before we outsourced HDs that needed HSA till we got enough Donors
Now we share our stock with trusted friends & check our Shared Donor-DB
...most of the time we have it
If not I order & Pray it matches, but then get to add another to the Donor-DB
:>
September 27th, 2019, 19:26
data-medics wrote:LarrySabo wrote:⁕ * If a donor drive is required for parts and we use one of our own, a charge of $50 applies
I think you should be billing full replacement cost for the donor even if it's one you have in-house. And, even if it's an in-house drive, that should still be billed upfront non-refundable since the drive will be ruined afterward (in all likelihood) and can't be sold later on. If I have a drive sitting here that will work, but it's going to cost me $200 to replace it because it's rare, then I'm billing the customer $200 for the drive. Otherwise, I'd be better off just selling the drive to another lab that needs it later on. The money I make on donors is what pays for my time spent wiping, testing and keeping inventory on thousands of drives.
I think you're giving away too much.
September 27th, 2019, 19:34
Spildit wrote:On case of Heads if you do already have the head stack in stock and if you don't damage that head stack on the specific work and if you can re-use it you can charge just a symbolic "fee" for the use of that part that you do already have.
You can do something like swapping back heads and return the drive in original condition and keep the good heads for your next job, that way the next client will be lucky and will have a cheaper recovery.
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