Need Input - Residential Re-Key Pricing

[2octops]

Well, to satisfy anybody's concerns, yes, Cali licensed and insured, both occupations. Cali licensed as company, not simply a locksmith employee.

Not a locksmith at all. You are licensed as a PI, unless you changed your name to Robert and moved, you do not have a license to rekey locks in sunny California.

[Eyes_Only]

I thought he said he was licensed to be both a PI and a locksmith.

[cab]

Well, to satisfy anybody's concerns, yes, Cali licensed and insured, both occupations. Cali licensed as company, not simply a locksmith employee.

Not a locksmith at all. You are licensed as a PI, unless you changed your name to Robert and moved, you do not have a license to rekey locks in sunny California.

No, you need to learn to search better. You have my full name, try a little harder.

Seach under my last name, click the match any party of name button.

BTW, this is my second locksmith license, I had one many years ago but let it lapse since I never pursued any education.

[cab]

So did I pass the exam committee, and can we move on?

[2octops]

Well, to satisfy anybody's concerns, yes, Cali licensed and insured, both occupations. Cali licensed as company, not simply a locksmith employee.

Not a locksmith at all. You are licensed as a PI, unless you changed your name to Robert and moved, you do not have a license to rekey locks in sunny California.

No, you need to learn to search better. You have my full name, try a little harder.

Seach under my last name, click the match any party of name button.

BTW, this is my second locksmith license, I had one many years ago but let it lapse since I never pursued any education.

Yup, that's what I did the first time and ROBERT T is the only one that came up in CA and his was only good from 91-93.

So I decided to get funky with it and found your registration as a PI and got your full name. Then went back and searched. Maybe they gave you a license but forgot to enter it into the state system.

It could happen

[Eyes_Only]

Stalker!!!

[Schuyler]

Eyes, what you referred to in California was standard in Texas when I briefly moved down there. I talked with some of the folks in their locksmithing association who made it pretty clear that it had become a very closed community. My own experience was that every place I applied insisted that I go through their school (which I would have to pay for) for several months before they would hire me & I wasn't allowed to pursue a personal license, as I hadn't worked for someone for 2 years yet.

I'm kind of a wackjob libertarian, so the insular, near-fraternal structure of things didn't really appeal to me.

[freakparade3]

Schuyler, move to Iowa, no license, it's wide open....... Wait, it's not worth moving to Iowa for that. We do have corn though. Endless rows of corn......................

[Shrub]

Please keep in mind, the locksmithing service is in addition to other services, thus the discount.

I think i may have misunderstood this as meaning that you do locksmithing as an addition to other services and that you are discounting it because its done as part of other services,

Ie your not a locksmith doing a locksmiths work for cheaper than a real locksmith,

If i read this wrong then im sorry its my fault,


Ive been meaning to come back to this thread because ive comments to add or alter to my first reply,

In the uk rekeying is very often now done by simply buying keyed alike locks from the wholesaler, the price differance isnt worth bothering about if theres one at all,

The othe rpoint i want to clear is that i would only charge a rekey fee for each cylinder if the number of cylinders was a low one, otherwise it would be a total all in one price,

I did a rekey yesterday on supplying and fitting a new lock, the rekey was given free,