FAT WALLET GLENN

Jason --

You can charge whatever you like for any job. Point of charging $300 for the night call out is you are hoping that it is too much and the fellow on the other end of the phone will call someone else. But if in fact he is willing to pay it, then it is worth $300 to go out.

-- Absinthe

charging $300 for the

the fellow on the

I dissagree. the point of even answering the phone is to accept jobs and earn $$$'s. If one doesn't want to do night calls then they should not even answer the phone.

many jobs (on their own) are worth the $300 in the middle of the night.

my2¢

Exactly.

Unfortunately it isn't that simple. Even though you may not have any interest in doing 2 AM work for 95% of the people who will call there still may be regular customers you don't want to leave hanging if they absolutely must have

Agreed.

I agree that it would be better not to answer the phone if you don't want the job. Point is that you don't want the job for the $100 you would charge before 5pm but will do it for $300 that you are asking at 3am. Your feelings would not be hurt if the fellow decides to call your competition and have them do it for $150. The idea is not that it is $300 worth of work, but $300 worth of convenience for the guy not waiting until morning. Now if it is normally a $300 job you may go out at 3am without charging $900 but may still add some convenience charge less than 3x the normal cost.

-- A

Regular customers do get some consideration in all things.

You may have caught him so groggy that he forgot to ask more :) When he wakes up or the coffee kicks in he may not be charging $75 after all... :D

you don't want

you would charge

competition and have

of work, but $300

morning. Now if it is

$900 but may

cost.

my whole point is that one should get what the jobs worth or NOT do the job at all.

Good point LOL