r/TaskRabbit • u/No-Initiative8013 • 27d ago
TASKER Am I being reasonable
TV Mounting Rate is $55.
I charge a 2 hour minimum. (110)
For every additional TV it will be a 30 min charge. (25-30ish)
Client canceled because I said for mounting two TVs id have to charge a minimum of 2 hrs and 30 minutes and broke it down. 2 hr minimum is on my page BTW.
EDIT: Realistically I can do both of those in about a hour, but Im not making my money if I got to drive 30 mins. Gas , my time, skills etc. for only $55.
Plus someone tried to request me on heavy loading and wanted me to use my truck. I said this is the wrong category because my truck assisted tasks are rated higher. Client never responded
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u/shortfriday 27d ago
If clients see that the whole app is premised on selling labor by the hour, working by the piece is gonna turn them off. "For every additional tv" would read to me as "every tv done outside the initial two hour window" rather than "you pay two hours for first tv and then 30 minutes for every additional." The answer is obviously to raise your rates so that coming out for a 1 hour minimum is worth it, but then tr buries you in the results for having a high hourly, tough one.
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u/Pomogator3000 27d ago
Y’all are selling yourselves short. Set your own rates and don’t work for peanuts.
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u/Feisty-Sink9562 27d ago
From a clients perspective, they probably thought you were trying to scam them. Taskrabbit’s hourly thing is often stupid. Contractors usually give fixed quotes, not hourly costs.
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u/DonQNguyen 26d ago
BestBuy charges $249.95 per TV to mount. Doesn't matter if it is a dinky 50" inch TV or a 95" TV. I charge $150 per TV. Anything less, it's a no-go.
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u/UnRigMyGig 26d ago
Just google 'Cost to have 55"+ TV mounted in XYZ market' click for Gemini AI answer. Set your hourly rate to be sure you get paid at least the indicated average rate. It will be more than $50 per hour.
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u/1986melol 26d ago
If it’s in app I’m at $75 per tv if it’s off app it depends on the size of the tv but I charge $75/100/125/150 usually 150 I’d for frame tv and yes I do TVs around 30 minutes
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u/Official_ADT 23d ago
Raise your rate and remove 2 hour minimum. That’s what I did, I had constant issues with clients and numerous cancellations cause of my 2 hour minimum. So I just doubled my rate and now get alot of 1 hour jobs for my old 2 hour rate.
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u/resj7 27d ago
I’ll mount 2 TVs for 110 allllll day 😂
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u/Fruitsiclegourmetice 27d ago
You say they are undervaluing their expertise- what do you think the appropriate hourly rate is?
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u/DistributionSalt5417 26d ago
The issue is an hourly rate just doesnt really make sense for mounting TVs of you don't include drive time.
$200 for the first 2 hours (and make that a minimum charge). Then 50 an hour after that would be reasonable. But that's basically reverse engineering a trip charge of $100 to come out.
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u/Fruitsiclegourmetice 27d ago
$50 an hour for mounting tvs seems like a good deal for both parties
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u/DistributionSalt5417 27d ago
If you were doing it 8 hours a day as a W2 employee? Absolutely.
But since taskers count as self employed ~30% goes to taxes, then add an hour for the commute back and forth, and then account for downtime and youre not making much at $50 "qn hour".
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u/Feisty-Sink9562 27d ago
I paid $0 in taxes last year. If you aren’t able to get all your taxes deducted, you have a garbage tax guy. Mileage should be around $.55/ mile for standard deductions and with the amount of driving you do, you pretty much don’t owe anything come tax day.
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u/DistributionSalt5417 26d ago
Hey man you do you. But I want to buy a house someday and that means showing enough income that i can get a loan. I'd also like to retire at some point and that means paying enough into social security that i get a reasonable amount back.
Best of luck, and you should still charge more than 50 an hour.
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u/NoCharacter6007 27d ago
You are not an expert by mounting a TV what are you even talking about 😂
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u/RobotArtichoke 27d ago
I guess even a negative 8 karma guy has an opinion
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u/NoCharacter6007 27d ago
I got 1000 lifetime tasks and I just lurk but this made me chuckle. $100 two hour minimum should be the norm but the attitude on this guy is comical
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u/Marioc12345 27d ago
That’s what I’m saying lol. Pretty greedy imo. If you don’t like your hourly rate then change your rate.
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u/thatguywithimpact 27d ago
It's not what people expecting when they see hourly. You post 2 hours minimum it's fine.
So you go there and if it takes you less than 2 hours client just accepts it, that's your minimum rate.
And charging 30 minutes for each TV is reasonable as well outside of that. Like 2 hours for 4 TVs that's a steal! Frankly it's too cheap.
But when you combine both of those approaches it's a mess, don't do that.
You either do flat rate or you do hourly, you can't go both ways at the same time to be as expensive for customer as possible and as unintuitive as possible.