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

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

2 AM service. Most serious intelligent people understand that calling for professional service at 2 AM is going to be expensive. If I called a plumber at 2 AM and he quoted me say only $75.00 or something I would be nervous about using him. I would wonder why he needed to work so bad to be so cheap in the middle of the night.

Agreed.

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

3am. Your feelings

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