Pricing for specific vehicles....

[dcjredline]

I’m not sure what you mean by this.^ I mean if you’re doing a regular wash on both vehicles, why would you go all out and get the Ferrari to 99% but only put 80% effort into the Camry? I thought both were getting a the same service?

Someone (maybe not you sorry) made that comparison. I was responding to that in the post I quoted you.

 

[Koogs]

Nope, cause there is more time involved. Getting a Ferrari to 99% and comparing that to a Toyota getting to 80% isn't even apples to apples. Wash on either car would be the same price. Apples to apples. I am not gonna charge someone more for the same work just becue of the badge on the front. That's the point here.

I was trying to comment on someone who said they charge by the hour. My point was that if you're hitting a job for 4 hours to get a DD Toyota to 80%-90% good enough and a Ferrari for 16 hours to get it to 99% or whatever, I don't think that those hours are interchangeable. The rate should be higher for the Ferrari, the attention to detail, level of skill required, toolset required are different.

Maybe it makes sense to charge the same for a wash on a Camry vs a Ferrari, but you have one oops on the ferrari and you're going to have to wash the Camry 50+ times to pay for it.

Hey, you're the guys doing this for money, its your world, do what you want. I'm just offering my outsiders opinion.

To further demonstrate, if you weren't a 1 man show, and you had 2 guys working for you, 1 with like 1-2 years of experience and was OK, and the other with 15 years experience and was top of his game doing paint correction, you'd be paying them different. You'd have the 1-2 year guy turning out shiny DDs and billing at a lower hourly rate with the 15 year guy doing high end corrections, at a much higher hourly rate.

 

[Justin at Final Inspection]

I was trying to comment on someone who said they charge by the hour. My point was that if you're hitting a job for 4 hours to get a DD Toyota to 80%-90% good enough and a Ferrari for 16 hours to get it to 99% or whatever, I don't think that those hours are interchangeable. The rate should be higher for the Ferrari, the attention to detail, level of skill required, toolset required are different.

Maybe it makes sense to charge the same for a wash on a Camry vs a Ferrari, but you have one oops on the ferrari and you're going to have to wash the Camry 50+ times to pay for it.

Hey, you're the guys doing this for money, its your world, do what you want. I'm just offering my outsiders opinion.

To further demonstrate, if you weren't a 1 man show, and you had 2 guys working for you, 1 with like 1-2 years of experience and was OK, and the other with 15 years experience and was top of his game doing paint correction, you'd be paying them different. You'd have the 1-2 year guy turning out shiny DDs and billing at a lower hourly rate with the 15 year guy doing high end corrections, at a much higher hourly rate.

This is absolutely correct. My engine builder/tuner does this with his two guys. One tackles more in depth jobs, engines etc. The other handles basic bolt ons and maintenance.

As for the Ferrari vs DD Toyota your correct. Go back a couple pages and read my Ferrari dilemma going on now. My ppf guy charges more for exotics and for good reason. Now he's paying out of pocket for a whoops removing old film and will be lucky to break even due to the cost of fixing it.