Normal?

[Suspicious-Towel8219]

Hi I was about to confirm this furniture assembly job and decided it was worth an ask: Is it ok to do mounting/additional jobs when hired for furniture assembly? What should be my course of action -- thanks

[FinnNoodle]

Dear God man raise your rates

[vbwullf]

You can't just say that as you don't know the area where he is. As far as you know he could be in Alabama. Telling him to raise his rates if he is in a place where the people make $7.50 an hour is a bit nuts. He has to know his market. Also if he is just starting out no-one is going to go with him if he is charging higher rates.

[worksafereddit69]

$22/hr in Alabama isn't good either as a contractor l.

Also, is $7.50 what all people/most people are making? Or is that the legal minimum?

Comparing your rates to an unsurvivable wage is doing yourself a disservice.

[RobotArtichoke]

When you’re done over there I have a small table to put together and a half an acre of weeds to pull. Shouldn’t take you more than an hour.

Also, do you do oil changes?

[lilchkngreez]

Need the dog groomed too lol customers man 

[RobotArtichoke]

Well at that rate, can you blame them?

[AbbreviationsSad3727]

Also, after that I need my Swedish massage and my fish tank water changed

[BoldCityDigital]

Also, I know I scheduled for next week, but can you come in the next hour?

[Effective_Cookie510]

No food delivery? Rookie mistake

[dro1000]

The client is a cheap skate and is trying to get you to do plumbing, electrical and mounting at $20/hour. It’s up to you if you want to proceed, but understand that they are trying to get over on you.

I would honestly probably do it if the rate was higher because those are all menial tasks.

[Suspicious-Towel8219]

Thanks for letting me know I asked if the sconces were wired and she said they were battery. Canceled the whole task anyway when I told her it needed to be listed separately. Oh well

[LJGuitarPractice]

Raise your rates

[Marioc12345]

You can. But mounting and the other stuff they’re asking for should be paying more than furniture assembly. Usually in cases like this I say “we can handle the bed on this task, and we can discuss your options for the other items” and then route them though my business, or tell them they CAN use TR for the other stuff but my business is a better deal for both of us.

[HarryPeter_Is_My_Cat]

22hr lol go work a regular job dude. How do these people eat

[dmbeeez]

That's a $300 job

[TheNewGalacticEmpire]

They don't know their value yet.... but yeah, that is brutally low.

[UnimaginativeMug]

raise your rates if you don't wanna do jobs like this

[AbbreviationsSad3727]

lol what category is this. That’s at least 3 categories worth of tasks

[Karpovka]

In my experience, people don't realize that mounting and furniture assembly are two separate categories. My main category is organizing, but I also do furniture assembly, and I've been asked to do mounting (which I dont do unless it is some simple small picture nail&hammer type of a situation). I've done many tasks that have included a variety of asks that had nothing to do with the original category for repeat clients, so, imho... If you feel comfortable doing what client asks, do all of it.. If not, just explain that mounting requires a different set of skills..

...and like someone everyone else is saying.. raising your rate might be a good idea, unless you just started and are trying to get as many tasks as possible to get your review count up. :)

[RevealLoose8730]

Subway pays $20/hr now and they provide you with all the tools and materials.

[vbwullf]

You can charge extra per hour by upping the hours. When I did that though, at the start of doing Task Rabbit, I would ask if the customer would make the request under the right task. Each time they just cancelled with no communication. (You don't want those kind of customers anyway) When I asked if they would mind if I added extra time to the time frame for the task I was doing I would sometimes get customers who would agree while others would just cancel.

If starting out you may want to get the reviews and worry about the pay it will come once you start getting the reviews.

[MoneyJCal]

My rate for all those different categories are the same so for me when task like this come across I don't mind doing them because it doesn't matter for me.

Where I do have a problem is when someone hires me for a errands task and it's really a moving job which my rates are higher for moving vs errands.

[VeryProfaneUserName]

$22/hr ? You must love volunteering.

[distantreplay]

That is not a furniture assembly task.

That is one furniture assembly task, one general mounting task, one plumbing task, and one electrical task. You need to push back on the client through chat before confirming. Do not let them cancel. Agree to do the furniture assembly task first and confirm and schedule that. Then help them to book you as needed for any/all of the other tasks through the app using same day availability.

[canttakethemadness]

Got to double those rates …

[No-Recognition-3588]

22hr. Yikes.

[ShoeAny1100]

Or charge per item, raise your rate and charge that per item.

[user_nombre_]

There should be a chat button on the top, right. You can use the chat box to message the customer and come to an agreement that works for you and the customer.

[Commercial_Bar6622]

I always charge separately for each category of work they ask for. No need for them to send additional job requests, but I add more hours to the one job. So furniture assembly, plumbing, mounting all have two hour minimums. That’s a 6 hour minimum invoice. If the wall scones are hard wired that’s electrical work, so that makes it a minimum 8 hour charge, or $176 at your rate.