Understanding Your Appliance Repair Quotes
Are you busy comparing quotes from your local appliance repair companies? The more time you spend comparing the quotes the more confused you would get. This is mainly because each service provider gives you a different quote. You would be surprised to note how drastically these quotes could vary for the same job at hand. Here are a few important factors to pay attention to while reading your quotes so that you could make sense out of the quotes you receive.
First, you need to understand all the factors that contribute to the appliance repair quote. Regardless of whether you are hiring refrigerator repair services or cooktop repair services, the following pricing framework would work. Different service providers apply these elements differently and charge differently.
All the companies would tell you that they will give you a free, no obligation quote but in reality you should know that nothing comes for free. You should know that the cost of visit for the free, no obligation quote is absorbed in the quote some way or the other. It is just that they do not show it to you how they charge you for this.
The second component is calculated based on the man-hours required to complete a task. In other words, the labor cost is calculated based on the time that is likely to take to fix the issues.
This is not as simple and easy as it may sound because only when they open up the equipment and when they start addressing the issues, other underlying issues would be seen. Any experienced appliance repair company would know what to anticipate when they deal with a specific issue and calculate the cost accordingly.
Some companies will provide you with a fixed task based rate card. Do not think that this will automatically be cheaper. This varies from one case to the other and from one service provider to the other. You may want to compare the fixed or flat rate quote and variable quote for the same repair job so that you could make well-informed decision.
Besides the labor costs, there are components costs. If any spare parts need to be changed or if any component has to be replaced then this cost adds to the quote. The quality of the supplies used and the spare parts used will vary and so does the cost from one company to the other.
Miscellaneous supplies used while servicing your appliances also add to the cost. Every little pin and a tag that they use cost your service provider money. They will charge you for these too may be not directly but in other indirect ways.
As you could see as there are so many components in any given quote, there is no wonder the quotes you receive vary from one company to the other so drastically. Unless you take your time to review your quote and compare them meaningfully, you could end up making mistakes with your choice of appliance repair company.
