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| tooki:
--- Quote from: SteveThackery on July 06, 2024, 05:33:22 pm ---It is also astonishingly arrogant to believe that your time is worth $200 per hour even when you've no clue what you're doing. That's what happens when a computer expert gets an audio amp to fix. You'll still charge $200 per hour, won't you? We both know you will. Anyway, we've hit the buffers on this debate and I've come away saddened by the arrogance some people have expressed ("I'm worth $200 per hour whether I know what I'm doing or not") and some people's lack of empathy for the customer ("Fix or no fix, you owe me $1600 for the day I spent poking at your audio amp and hoping for the best"). --- End quote --- Here we go again with your idiotic contrived situation. We established early on in the thread that EXPERTS can charge higher rates because of their expertise and experience. Nobody here except you is ever claiming that an incompetent technician is worth that. |
| SteveThackery:
--- Quote from: tooki on July 06, 2024, 06:32:07 pm ---We established early on in the thread that EXPERTS can charge higher rates because of their expertise and experience. Nobody here except you is ever claiming that an incompetent technician is worth that. --- End quote --- I thought it would be clear that I was exaggerating the sums to make a point. I'm sorry if that wasn't clear. I think the principle applies to all repairers though. Not all are experts. Some are experts now, after years of experience, but started out as numpties. There are degrees of expertise. There are differing labour rates. The actual labour rate isn't important - it's the principle that matters. The idea that even when you get things wrong, it's the customer that takes the hit, never the repairer. That just ain't right. |
| SteveThackery:
--- Quote from: fzabkar on July 06, 2024, 05:49:30 pm ---Thankfully, there are many honourable individuals who operate on a no fix, no fee basis. So --- End quote --- Thankfully, yes. And honourable - absolutely. |
| T3sl4co1l:
--- Quote from: tooki on July 06, 2024, 02:28:00 pm ---A paranoid schizophrenic who is suffering from delusions doesn’t realize they’re delusions, either. Yet objectively, they are. --- End quote --- --- Quote from: tooki on July 06, 2024, 02:33:22 pm ---Your contrived situations of dishonest, untrained rip-off artists do nothing to validate your point. But they do make you look like a disingenuous crank. --- End quote --- --- Quote from: tooki on July 06, 2024, 06:32:07 pm ---Here we go again with your idiotic contrived situation. We established early on in the thread that EXPERTS can charge higher rates because of their expertise and experience. Nobody here except you is ever claiming that an incompetent technician is worth that. --- End quote --- Can you please, kindly, fuck off with the personal attacks? You're not furthering your argument, you're only making yourself look look like the asshole here. And the rest of us by association, that we might seem to tolerate or even accept such behavior. I for one see fit to call out such behavior. Steve, for his part, has been nothing but calm and patient with his point. Insistent, unable to (or refusing to) reach or explain a common point of reference, but not "schizophrenic". At worst, "troll", an accusation first raised by myself, and I stick to the reasoning given therewith: to the extent that reasoning applies, it's a factual statement, not a personal attack. That's exactly as far as I meant to go with it, and no excuse for anyone else to go further. It is certainly not reason to make it personal. Tim |
| Smokey:
--- Quote from: SteveThackery on July 06, 2024, 05:33:22 pm ---... Well, guys, I think I'm about talked out... ... Nothing more to say, is there? --- End quote --- .... then immediately makes three more posts... |
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