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Re: Diagnosis takes 1 hour, fix takes 30 sec., what do you charge?
Posted to Shop Management Forum on 12/26/2002

Hi Steve,

Short answer = Charge the rate that you normally charge for diagnostic testing.

Hours are not the point here. Dollars are. Seems pretty simple to me.

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