Charging friends

A friend gets a discount. A really good friend gets a really deep discount, cost of the parts maybe, or even free if they weren't to expensive.

A relative of mine owns a guest house, and never charge his friends or relatives if they have to visit his guest house, even food, tea, phone call are free for them. Not only this, he also give 50% discount to other friends/relatives of his friends and relatives. This is his heart is close to his friendship and relations.

I am into business too- (small time business) and I always charge my friends lower than my regular customers. It's because friends are different from other customers. My friends helped me in other ways that strangers don't and giving/charging them lower than the regular price/rate is my way of paying their kindness.

I like your friend frankness and really he is pure business minded person who treat and charge his customer and friends the same charges. And it is always good that he charge the same amount since the service he has provided to your car is the same that he would have provided to other customer.

I would be giving some privileges to my friends. This way they would remember to come to me for the service because not only that they can help me but because they can also get a little discount as compare if they would get the service of others. Have a nice day!

I think it is fair to charge friends. Possibly not the same as strangers because friends often help each other out. As long as it is a fair trade or fair exchange of work or help, then sometimes, you just know it will even out in the end. I do look for ways to pay back or to pay it forward, sometimes it is not possible to pay back that person but what that person appreciates is that you pass on the kindness to someone else. If we all lived this way, it would indeed be a better world.

years back Dorannmwin We had a friend who did like that for our international harvester pickup and he never charged us like he did strangers so we often asked him to dinner and treated him as our special quest.He really got a charge out of that as he was single and probably a bit lonely too.Later he did get married and was a really happy man and was Still doing our car repairs for little money.

I do have a small business but I sell books on line. People have asked me to find books for the and I have done that for free it is not a big deal though. I have also had a couple of friends who thought they might have books that are worth money had me do some research for them. Again that is not a big deal and if they books had been worth something they probably would have had me sell them and then they would have probably given me some money. As it was their books were not that valuable. Now my good hearted husband on the other hand is a computer expert, he can program computers, and fix them, and set them up and do pretty much everything there is to do with computers. People are asking him for help all the time. He spent three weekends at his barbers house not only setting up his computer, but teaching him how to use it and, and then going back when the guy was having problems. He didn't even feed my husband when he was there all day. He mentioned a free hair cut but didn't insist when my husband refused. My husband should have taken it. He is also going to design a website for another friend something he does not have time to do, and he is not getting paid for that either. My neighbor calls my husband all the time with computer issues but we call him when we have broken things in the house so we have a nice exchange with him but my husband is always doing work for people for nothing and using his gas money to get there. Very often then don't offer to pay him or feed him or anything. I think the least these people could do is feed him when he is there. It kind of makes me mad how people take advantage of him, but my husband just takes it all in stride, that is the kind of guy he is. He is also not a guy with a lot of spare time. He often works 10 hour days so his time is precious.

Of course, friends get discounts. Part of friendship is that you help each other out if you can. Often, friends help each other out far more than one's relatives would bother doing; a lot of families just aren't all that tight-knit--especially not in this (extremely) mobile society.

As a friend, I would definitely not gonna charge him like regular customer. Maybe that is the rule, and I would expect my friend would do me a favor in the future. As friend, usually I will give him/her a discount instead. If I charge him like a regular customer, he/she might not be happy with it, even though they sounds understandable. Sometimes, you knew a person so well, you won't want to take an advantage of it.

it is quite infactual and they are kind of annoying and makes us them crazy when we ever do such sort of things to make them petrified

I had this one woman who thought by trying to become my "friend" she could get free babysitting services from me... Too bad for her I saw right through it and realized what she was doing. She told me one day that I should watch her kids for free because we are supposed to be friends. That was the last straw, I told her plain and simply I do NOT give away my services, I still have to pay my bills and this is a business, friend or not. So, there went the friendship but obviously she was not a friend anyway! But for a "true friend" I would not charge them as much as other customers. Like for example my neighbor across the street, they are true friends. They just gave us food this week for our house because they knew we didn't have any... Those are some good friends!! So there is NO way I would charge her the full amount if she needed me to watch her kiddos. =) For me, it depends who they are and what kind of person they are. If their just looking to get away with something free and "acting" like a friend they would not get a discount from me...

I would not charge the same. I'm gonna help my friends anyway I can. Of course, if I worked under a boss, I would not cheat to an extent to lose my job in case it's found out, but if I could, and it wasn't really making me lose a lot of money. For example, my mom is friends with a taylor, and she only has to pay the material's price. But she pays it back in favors, like she writes her receipts, as she's a doctor. I wouldn't abuse and use people who help me and get stuff for me cheaper, I try to always pay it back somehow, help them in stuff.

You've been paying him back already by way of treating his family as yours. He was treating you as one of his own and worthy for the service he is doing, The true friendship is give and take. The best for you to do is to be there when he need your assistance, not of thinking whatever it is, that pop up in your mind. In reverse you are the one in problems to yourself. In friendship money is of less value the best is care and relationship as a friend.

I think that if I were the one doing the service, I would also not charge my friend the same way as I would charge a stranger. I think those are the perks of friendship. Hopefully this friend of mine has earned this priveledge. And that he'd do the same if the tables were turned.

The owner of the shop is really your good friend. Unless a good and close friend, the business man will never compromise with remuneration or charge. Yes, I also go to my friends to get better items with reasonable cost. Have a very nice day.

No I don't charge friends, I only charge for the expenses that will cost me. I used to fix my brother in law's laptop... and he was happy for me to fix the computers and laptops. I don't charged him in all the computers I fixed.. after a year, he bought another laptop, he then still asked me fix another laptop. I fixed.. after that, he gave the laptop. he was just thinking to give me the laptop but he did not tell me until i have fixed it. Maybe what he had in mind is that, if it will not be fixed then no lose hope for me for not getting the laptop. He made sure first that it is still functioning. Wheeeee heeeeee.. i called the laptop, Dino quite old and heavy. but still functioning until now. After a few years, I bought my new notebook now and my sister is using Dino. My new notebook, is named, Heepee... for it's an HP.

Hi there. If it is my business and my sole income, I would charge a friend, but less than what I would charge other people. I believe that one should not just give away things for free all the time, because it may harm the friendship.

You should thanks to him if he is not charge you as reguler price, but i know it's business, just assuming that you paid him with his child for ride with you. There are so many kind of person of businessman, and i think you should thanks to him because there are person whose charge their friend more than as reguler price or as reguler price but with low level quality part (if need chanced spart part). With this we knew who is really friend of our friend or just 'friend'.

Hi there! It's strange to pay for my friend of his kindness ,instead I will give him a gife or something he wants for a long time or just have dinner together .And if I helped my best friend I would never charging from her ,and I will fell unset when she gives my payment .It's just we are freinds that I help you .