Originally Posted by Exoter175
You sit here and say you didn't expect it, but you call it unreasonable and call them crooks for not doing it for 20 dollars or less.
You still do not UNDERSTAND the point everyone is driving across to you. This is a business, not a charity, kid. You might have a shitty car you don't appreciate, knowing that it'll cost a ton to fix later on, but in the eyes of a mechanic, your car is just like the next Mercedes that pulls up. Its going to cost you the same labor hour that it'll cost on the Mercedes. Why in the actual **** would you ever assume that the state of your car has anything to do with how much I'm going to charge you?
Which brings me to my second point.
Labor Hour. If you don't understand what Labor Hour is, or what it means, you shouldn't be dictating price.
Simply put, Labor Hour is what I'm going to charge you PER HOUR to fix your car. IT doesn't stop there though, because I'm probably going to pull up something like Mitchell or Alldata to find out how long it is going to take me to fix it, when you come in and ask for a quote, and I'm probably going to mark up the base labor hour by 10-25% on top of that.
Why? Because its going to cost me 400+ per day to have this building with these tools, with these employees, with the insurance to cover all of them, just to be in business. I have to make my money somewhere, and where I make it is labor hour, and parts.
Since you are bringing in a part I can't mark up, I ONLY make money on the labor hour, where I'm less likely to discount you on.
If you don't like the costs associated with running a business and having work done by professionals, use your mexicans, but understand there is nothing Constitutional or Patriotic about what you are doing, and you are only hurting the economy because you are a cheap ****.
And this is why you're a moron. Entitled? No. Lawful and helpful to the economy? Yes.
You say reasonable to a Mexican for 20 bucks, I see liability, economic downturn, and a cheapskate.
You're all full of negativity but understand this, when they **** up something on your car, you have no ability to go after them for damages, and they won't be paying you back for their mistakes. If you did it at my shop, you'd be taken care of because you get what you pay for, and with a business, by law, I'm supposed to take care of you if I **** up.
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This. But, as I've said, labor hour is labor hour. It doesn't go up or down depending on the condition of the car being worked on.
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