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Ask HN: What do you think about this startup idea I'm working on?

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Introducing Repairer - An on demand repair service.

Website: https://hammadn.wixsite.com/repairer

We take your damaged products from you and get it repaired as fast and as cheap as possible and deliver it back once it is repaired!

We'd be taking watches, clocks, smartphones, lamps, spectacles, laptops, modems and other common household products initially.

We've planned to launch in New Delhi, India initially and would be expending to many other cities all over the world pretty soon.

Would love to have your valuable feedback and suggestions.

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Given today's manufacturing, which is manufacture cheap, sell cheap, make it last a short time.

Can you price your service such that you make profit and at the same time it won't be cheaper for the customer to buy a new one?

What is your suggestion? How much should be the price?

I'm not sure. You tell me. Can you price it high enough to make profit and low enough to make people want to repair and not buy a new one?

I think we can. What do you think? Would you mind paying $0.5 extra on a repair amount of $10.

I'm not sure what you mean. Please clarify...

Currently we've decided to charge 5% of the repairing fee as the service charge for example if the repairing fee came out to be $10 then we'd take $0.5 as service charge so you'd have to pay $10.5 in total but we haven't finalised on this model and have decided to do experiments with various models we've thought of.

Will you offer a "repair warranty" on your services?

Nice question, reggiepret.

Yes, we'll offer a "repair warranty" under which we'll offer a free repair if the product doesn't get repaired satisfactorily the first time.

How will you collect and deliver? Are you going to rely on another service provider? Or are you going to have mobile repair units?

Validate it via users.

I think that's exactly what he's doing in this thread.

By a user I mean person who has used the service to pick up and repair an item. I do not mean people who are using Hacker News.

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