The hours cost one price. The knowledge costs another.
$1.28 to kick the machine.
$19,998.72 for knowing where to kick.
This is no joke. If it saves $2e6 bucks it's a great deal, eh?
{^_-}
----- Original Message -----
From: "Greg Allen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
You say the problem is 30 min to 2 hours. But you have been working on it
for how long and not fixed it?
You are probably over-simplifying the issue (maybe, maybe not). When you
quote a job you have to plan for worse case. Dealing with vendors, dns
issues, propagation issues, looking at the entire email setup and then
diagnosing and testing.
Then you have the issue of you wanting to pay by the hour.
Why would someone with no business relationship with you work on an hourly
basis?
How could they ensure getting paid from you in such a situation?
You may have a hard time hiring someone for this. I doubt many would work
without being paid up-front. And you appear to think it is a 30 min to 2
hour job. So, what's that mean? You think the job is worth $30-$150? And you
will send a check after the work if you feel like it? Or you send payment of
$30-$150 up-front for the job and the tech finds it's a 3 day job once he
gets into it?
Just my thoughts.
Good luck.
I hope you find someone that can work a deal with you.
This is my last post on this subject
-----Original Message-----
From: spectacularstuff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
If you are going to make remarks, please state all of the facts,
1. We do not require onsite service.
2. Guarantees are accepted.
3. Trying to justify the cost because propagation will take 2-3
days (which
you and I both know, usually takes 24 hours or less in most of
the places.
72 hours is a fail safe time frame.) is not acceptable.
Especially when you
will work for about 30 minutes - 2 hours fixing the issue and
then wait the
other 1 - 3 days for it to propagate, (not working for corporate might I
add). They don't mind paying for service, but they are not stupid!
If I bring that back to corporate, they will tell me the same thing I told
you. No, we do not need onsite service for this. You can do it
remotely.
No, you are not approved for that.
Wayne
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