• Storage & Archiving

  How much to charge for storage?

  Posted by Santiago Pilgrim on March 11, 2015 at 10:04 am

  Hi all,

  I will be charging a client for storing their files from a previous project I have produced for them

  It’s approximately 340gb altogether.

  For sending them the file I am just going to charge for a 500gb hard drive and postage.

  But, they also want an option for me to store the files.

  I have no idea what the standard rate for this is, I’m guessing a monthly fee per GB?

  Any help would be greatly appreciated.

  Santiago.

  Jeff Pulera replied 11 years, 1 month ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  Bob Zelin

  March 12, 2015 at 12:11 am

  you sell them the drive. They must pay for the drive 100%.
  Then you keep it on your shelf.
  If they say “that is crazy – we are not paying for the drive” – then you tell them that you cannot keep their media.

  Bob Zelin

  Bob Zelin
  Rescue 1, Inc.
  bobzelin@icloud.com
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  Santiago Pilgrim

  March 12, 2015 at 9:17 am

  Thanks, Bob.

  That’s fine, I was going to charge them for the drive.

  But surely I should also be charging them for keeping the hard drive on my shelf?

  That’s where I thought a monthly fee would come in – maybe not per GB as that just means a bigger hard drive which they would have already paid for, but a monthly fee for storing the hard drive I think makes sense… just not sure how much is reasonable.

  Santiago.
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  Jeff Pulera

  March 27, 2015 at 8:35 pm

  Hi Santiago,

  If you want to alienate your customer, then by all means charge them to put the drive they paid for on your shelf, so that they can pay you to do more editing with the footage on the drive later. Seriously, unless you have an office the size of Saul Goodman’s, I would not bring up storage with the customer, seems petty.

  Jeff

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