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Originally Posted by Saul Good
Then you probably aren't qualified to do that particular job.
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Most people aren't "qualified" to do most jobs. Sauto isn't qualified for 1/10th the stuff I am, but here he is barking up my tree looking for a biscuit.
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Originally Posted by Frosty
But you aren't showing them the same hours that another shop might.
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Every shop is different, in all honesty, my hours were probably in the bottom third of the shops in the area. So I adjusted my labor hour to compensate so I wasn't flooded 24/7/365
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Originally Posted by JASONSAUTO
LOL. my way has kept this shop open longer than BOTH OF YOUR FAILED BUSINESSES. i've got plenty of insurance. pay all bills. hell even have plenty of money in the bank LOL
trust me buddy i know what im doing. i do it by the book and have great mechanics that work under me.
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I never failed at any business, we closed down or sold our business to pursue a higher paying, less hour intensive career. Where I get paid three times as much for half the work.
Running a profitable business is not a failure, selling your business to a larger company, is not a failure.
Those are wins, you moron.
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Originally Posted by mikeyis4dcats.
perhaps he does that instead of charging the 28% for shop supplies....
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I don't charge for shop supplies, I charge for disposal if I need it though.
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Originally Posted by JASONSAUTO
wait, maybe i need advice from a guy who has ran two into the ground.
and now is posting that he wants to start another. 
i see guys like that quite often.
they take as much money from people as possible then they skip town for a while, then here they are back under a NEW name and do it all again. |
I've lived in Olathe all of my life, I still keep in contact with my customers on a daily basis, and I didn't run two into the ground. I closed one down and sold the other.
That isn't running them into the ground, and for the record, the next business I plan to open, isn't automotive related, it is distribution related.
Nice to know you are full of assumptions and false accusations today, must have drank a ton of haterade down there in booneville.
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Originally Posted by mikeyis4dcats.
you people must go to different auto repair places than I do. I never ask the labor rate or the book time. I ask for a price. Period. 2 hours at $80 and 2.2 hours at $72.70 is STILL $160. That's all anyone should give a **** about.
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That's how the business works, but sometimes people want to know where the price comes from, so I show them.
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Originally Posted by JASONSAUTO
i dont charge for shop supplies either.
what i use is listed on the ticket. if we use supplies they are listed right out and charged accordingly.
no shop supplies line on my invoices
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Something you do right, shocking!
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Originally Posted by JASONSAUTO
and that would still be dishonest and illegal.
shop supplies are taxed. labor isnt.
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Dishonesty is in the eye of the beholder.
Because I do a better job and charge for it, you call me dishonest, yet my customers would disagree with you.
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Originally Posted by mikeyis4dcats.
if the mechanics "book" is anything like a construction cost book, some line items are spot on, others are WILDLY inaccurate. I can't imagine it's any different.
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It is wildly inaccurate, which is why half of our jobs were priced on a "per job" basis and not labor hour, but were created with labor hour and book hour in mind, as all are.