{"id":13839,"date":"2022-04-29T23:07:13","date_gmt":"2022-04-30T07:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/?p=13839"},"modified":"2022-04-29T23:07:13","modified_gmt":"2022-04-30T07:07:13","slug":"flat-free-pricing-versus-hourly-rates-business-decisions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/flat-free-pricing-versus-hourly-rates-business-decisions\/","title":{"rendered":"Flat Free Pricing Versus Hourly Rates Business Decisions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently I was thinking how it may be better to hire a junk removal company to remove some unwanted items and there are a lot of organizations to choose from.  I went through the initial process of trying to find who seems to have a good reputation around the area based on items such as reviews.  Afterwards, I looked at the pricing and this is where so many people had a different strategy.<\/p>\n<p>Some companies had a process where you would contact them with some basic details and afterwards they will give you some kind of consultation to provide an estimate on how long it would take to retrieve the items from your property and then dispose of it.  For example, hourly rates plus the disposal fee.  Other businesses simply listed flat fees where under a certain amount of weight you will be charged a specific fee.  Therefore, there is no guessing.<\/p>\n<p>There is a positive and negative to each as a consumer of course.  The hourly rate could possibly end up being less if the job is done quickly.  But it could also result in a higher than expected fee.  The flat fee gives you a peace of mind that it will stay within a specific budget.  However, technically if the load wasn\u2019t that big you would be paying more for the convenience of a one fee structure.  Which one would you be inclined to go with as the consumer?<\/p>\n<p>I think in a lot of cases the flat fee model can end up being better for everyone as everything is predictable.  As well, it can help to streamline operations a little better where it\u2019s like as restaurant that has a set menu to serve more people faster versus customizing every order.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently I was thinking how it may be better to hire a junk removal company to remove some unwanted items and there are a lot of organizations to choose from. I went through the initial process of trying to find who seems to have a good reputation around the area based on items such as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8889,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[4],"tags":[8207,89],"class_list":["post-13839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-flat-fee","tag-hourly-rate"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/lakeballoon.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6VnHC-3Bd","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13839"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13840,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13839\/revisions\/13840"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}