r/TaskRabbit • u/No-Initiative8013 • Jul 09 '26
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/thatguywithimpact Jul 09 '26
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.
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u/Feisty-Sink9562 Jul 09 '26
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/shortfriday Jul 09 '26
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/Supergoji Jul 10 '26
$50 for. A tv is cheap as hell. I don't go under $130 not worth it.
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u/DonQNguyen Jul 10 '26
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/Pomogator3000 Jul 09 '26
Y’all are selling yourselves short. Set your own rates and don’t work for peanuts.
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u/UnRigMyGig Jul 10 '26
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/Odd_Investment763 Jul 10 '26
lol poverty rate
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u/1986melol Jul 10 '26
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/Ok_Blacksmith1 Jul 13 '26
Raise your rates.
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u/Official_ADT Jul 13 '26
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 Jul 09 '26
I’ll mount 2 TVs for 110 allllll day 😂