do you charge friends for stringing?

[Cruzer]

Originally Posted by jim e

From what you are saying,you charge less labor for nat.gut than you do for synthetics??. (VS sells for $42.00/set), so you only charge $8.00 labor since you charge $50.00.Your nuts! If a client shanks a ball and breaks the string in a short time,(which can happen to nat. gut, especially to someone who shanks a lot), and you feel obligated to do a freebee, how long will that take you to recoup.Nat. gut takes longer to string, as you have to take precautions, have a good $ inventory of gut( I sometimes have over a $1200.00 inventory of just nat. gut, so you have a $ investment, time, your equipment. I charged more for that in labor over 40 years ago.
I guess everyone knows what their time is worth,so to each their own.

Yeah, I do effectively charge less for labor for gut string but I like working with round numbers. VS does now cost $42.00 before any shipping or sales tax as well but I don't have many players that use gut. I'm not too concerned with someone snapping their gut because of a shanked shot since the gut players I string for are fairly good players. Maybe I have been lucky since no one has ever asked for a free gut re-string. If someone did request a free gut re-string after a shanked shot I would probably do it once and politely decline from doing any gut stringing for them in the future if they asked.

[TheLama]

Originally Posted by jefferson

Looks like I'm moving! Thats triple what I get. Quit my teaching job and just string!

That's the average going rate in NYC, LI, Westchester, and Bergen County.

Basically, you get what you pay for.