When i retire i will open my own shop so i can tinker. I've had 2 stores
open and closed them both down. In both stores (one with a partner), the
costs associated ended up eating all the profits. Your going to need around
$10,000 to $20,000 just to have a good stock of parts. Even a small store is
going to cost $500 a month, and then theres the phone bills, prepaid taxes,
and a myrid of little things that eat away at the money. There are 2 kinds
of puters you can sell. High end puters of which you will sell only a few.
Low end in which you have to compete with the big stores. I was lucky to
make $100 off each puter i sold. I had to sell a puter every day to break
even. I make some money off damaged puters, most by lightning surges.I also
work for a puter business parttime setting up wireless networks in homes.The
guy has a shop but hes never there as hes setting up networks and doing
housecall repairs on puters. His big money comes from 4 other businesses
that he subcontracts as IT help. Otherwise he would be out of business as
repairing puters just doesn't pay enough. I still make more money than he
does with my full time job.He must really love doing this because i can't
see spending most of my time working on other peoples puters for less than
i'm making now.
I fully expect the GEEK SQUAD to be forgotton in a year or two. I charge
half their price and still get people grumbling about my prices. I get a lot
of older junk puters tho. I have so many used parts( i pack rat) that i
usually can put them back together. If i was smart i would have got a
network certification long ago. Knowing how to set up a server for
businesses and running the networking could have got me a few contracts of
my own. They like to see the certification papers no matter how good you
are( and i'm not really that good yet). Sorry to ramble on but i've already
done that so now i'm just moving on to what really pays.
JamesS
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